A former employee of the MUFG Bank has been arrested for allegedly stealing 20 kilograms of gold bullion worth 260 million yen (US$1.6 million) from customers’ safe deposit boxes.

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The thefts at two branches of MUFG Bank spanned four years and ... according to the bank. The bank, one of Japan's three megabanks, was formed in 2006 by the merger of UFJ Bank and Bank of Tokyo ...

The head of Japan's MUFG Bank has promised to review the financial institution's safe deposit box operations following a ...

In a widely anticipated move, the Bank of Japan on Jan. 24 raised its short-term policy rate to 0.50% from 0.25%. Read more ...

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The Bank of Japan, after clearly signalling last week's interest rate hike, may return to its accustomed fuzzy guidance about ...

Mizuho Bank is the first to have stopped accepting new safe deposit box customers among the country's three megabanks. The ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.’s profit rose more than analysts estimated in the fiscal third quarter, as the Bank of Japan’s interest-rate hikes put it on track to deliver record annual ...