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Small business confidence rises

Japan's small business confidence rose in September to its highest level in three years, boosted by accelerating growth in the world's second-biggest economy, industry figures released in Tokyo showed. Shoko Chukin Bank's index of small business confidence rose to 49.4...

#bank#economy#GDP

Economic growth overtakes that of US

Japan has been growing faster than the US for the first time since 1991, according to revised second-quarter gross domestic…

#bank#exports#ING


Kansai learns to live with China

The Kansai industrial region, regarded as one of the most depressed in Japan, has begun to grow faster than the…


METI to resume full-fledged Iraq export insurance

The Japanese government plans to resume its credit insurance programme for exports to Iraq on a full-scale basis by the…

#bank#export credit insurance#exports


Mixed signals for Japanese economy

Japan's factories boosted their output in July by a greater margin than expected, delivering a shot in the arm to…


Resona Holdings to integrate factoring units in move to...

Resona Holdings Inc. decided on Tuesday (26 August) to reduce the number of its subsidiaries and affiliates to one-fourth the…

#bank#conference#international


Corporate bankruptcies fall in July

The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan plunged 23.7 per cent in July compared to the same month a year…

#economy#investment


GE Commercial Finance eyes up Resona’s leasing businesses

Resona Holdings Inc, the Japanese bank that received a US$16.3 billion government bailout, has hired Nomura Holdings Inc. to find…

#bank#commercial finance#management


Hosoya to to put SME bank Resona on the...

When Eiji Hosoya, the new chairman of Resona, first saw the swooping R of the bank's logo, it reminded him…

#bad debts#bank#management


Sources of funding start to dry up

Spurned by major banks, many of Japan's small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have to depend on credit unions for financing.…


SMEs are hit by the large bank credit crunch

Yamaya is one of countless small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Japan feeling the effects of a widening credit crunch.…

#bank#exports#financial services


Bank of Japan to help SMEs to raise capital...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is to kick-start the development of an asset-backed securities market for small businesses to give…

#bank#liquidity#receivables

Resona bailout causing concern to SMEs

In Tokyo, the US$17bn bail out of Resona bank is being hailed as a promising first step towards fixing Japan's…

#bank#financial services#smes

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