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International Business News
Citigroup sells NikkoCiti
Trust to Nomura Trust
AP, Tokyo
Nomura TYust and Banking Co. is acquiring NikkoCiti Trust and Banking Corp from Citigroup Inc for 19 billion yen ($196 million) as the US financial group scales back its Japan business.
The sale of the trust bank - a financial institution that combines banking and the functions of a trust company -is part of Citigroup's efforts to cope with the global financial crisis. The deal is expected to close about October, pending regulatory approval and other conditions, Nomura said Wednesday.
Mitsubishi UFJ TYust and Banking Corp, agreed last December to buy NikkoCiti TYust for 25 billion yen but pulled out in May, prompting Citigroup to look for a new buyer.
In May, Japan's No. 3 bank Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group said it will take over Citigroup's Japan brokerage businesses, the first acquisition in Japan of a leading brokerage by a bank.
Sumitomo Mitsui acquired Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. and some parts of Nikko Citigroup's Japan operations for about 545 billion yen (S5.6 billion).
Several financial institutions had been bidding for NikkoCiti TYust, but Nomura Trust expects to expand its business by acquiring NikkoCiti TYust, known for its strength in investment trusts, according to Kyodo News agency.
Japanese banks Shinsei, Aozora plan to merge
AFP, Tokyo
Japanese lenders Shinsei and Aozora, which have been hit hard by the global financial crisis, announced Wednesday a planned merger that would create the nation’s sixth biggest commercial bank.
The two companies said in a joint statement that they had agreed to a merger of equals that is expected to take effect by October 2010.
They said that Norito Ikeda, a former banking executive who is now an advisor to management consultants A.T. Kearney K.K., would become president and chief executive of the combined group.
"The merger is expected to create an independent financial institution and a platform that will deliver longterm, stable and sustainable earnings, providing value to all stakeholders," the statement said.
The name of the enlarged bank has not yet been decided but tire two lenders said that Shinsei would continue to exist while Aozora would be dissolved.
The banks, both backed by US investment funds, are struggling to find a niche in the face of a weak economy and financial markets as well as growing competition with larger rivals.
UN chief urges Japan business to help fight climate change
AFP, Tokyo
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for Japanese companies to help fight global warming through green investment and ambitious emission cut targets, a business lobby said.
Ban, who met with Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone on Tuesday and was to hold talks with Prime Minister Taro Aso later Wednesday, held a closed-door breakfast meeting with the Japanese business lobby Keizai Doyukai.
The group’s president Kunio Kojima told reporters Ban had stressed that "it is important that governments and companies set ambitious targets and implement 'green investment' through which people's awareness can change."
Ban had made the point that the climate change problem "cannot be resolved without cooperation between politicians, corporate communities and civil societies," Kojima said, in directly quoting Ban.
DHL to triple regional hubs in China
AFP, Shanghai
German logistics giant DHL plans to open 10 new regional transportation hubs in China this year, state media said Wednesday, tripling the number of such centres it operates in the country.
The company launched an eastern China domestic transportation hub in Shanghai Tuesday, die China Dally said, the fifth facility of its kind operated by DHL in China.
The company will open 10 more regional centres in major Chinese cities by the end of this year, the report said, boosting the total number in the country to 15.
The launch of the Shanghai hub is part of a 25-million-dollar investment to beef up DHL's competitiveness in China's road transportation and distribution market, according to a statement posted on the company's websiteTuesday.
It "reflects our continued confidence In China," Frank Appel, chief executive officer of Deutsche Post DHL, said in the statement.