SMTH focuses on high-net-worth individuals who can be customers across its specialized loan, trust, real estate, and investment-management products, and it has fewer branches than the megabanks or the ...

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Friday and revised up its assessment on consumption, signaling its confidence ...

March 2024, is one of Japan’s Big Three banking groups. Compared with its two megabank rivals, SMFG has a greater focus on retail customers and small and medium-size enterprises rather than large ...

The other big potential threat is a U.S. recession. A soft landing for the economy is the central case, but a deeper slowdown ...

USD/JPY strengthened on Friday as yen weakened after the Bank of Japan signalled it was in no rush to raise interest rates ...

Bitcoin's performance surpasses nearly every other major asset class, but some investors have been spooked by the recent ...

Asian equities were largely higher on high volumes driven by FTSE Russell and S&P index rebalances and triple witching in the ...

U.S. stocks are drifting in early trading after leaping to records the day before as part of a worldwide rally.

The Bank of Japan maintained its benchmark rate on Friday after two hikes this year and signalled that the policy normalization will ...

The Bank of Japan left interest rates unchanged on Friday, but governor Kazuo Ueda said further hikes remain on the cards if ...

The Bank of Japan unanimously decided to keep its policy rate unchanged at 0.25%. Amid growing confidence in achieving its ...