Mizuho Financial Group (NYSE:MFG) is a Japan-based financial services holding company and one of Japan’s major banking groups. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a broad range of services to individuals, businesses, institutional investors and government-related entities.
Its principal businesses include commercial and retail banking, corporate and investment banking, trust banking, securities, asset management, private banking and other financial services. Key subsidiaries include Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Trust & Banking and Mizuho Securities, which offer deposits, lending, payments, capital markets services, investment products, advisory services and trust-related solutions.
Mizuho serves customers throughout Japan and maintains an international network supporting cross-border banking, finance and capital markets activities across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. The group traces its heritage to several longstanding Japanese financial institutions, including Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan, whose operations were brought together under the Mizuho name in the early 2000s.