{"id":11528,"date":"2016-12-31T10:20:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T02:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=11528"},"modified":"2016-12-28T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T09:22:34","slug":"japans-mizuho-bank-plans-to-expand-in-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/12\/31\/japans-mizuho-bank-plans-to-expand-in-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Mizuho bank plans to expand in PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pia.gov.ph\/article\/view\/1141481864148\/mizuho-bank-eyes-\">Philippine Information Agency<\/a>, Mizuho Bank, one of the largest commercial banks in Japan, plans to expand its footprint in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11530\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/mizuho.jpg\" alt=\"mizuho\" width=\"512\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/mizuho.jpg 512w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/mizuho-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image grabbed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mizuhobank.com\/company\/info\/profile\/index.html\">mizuhobank.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Nobuhide Hayashi, President and CEO of Mizuho Bank, Ltd., the recent state visit of President Rodrigo Duterte to Japan was an important development in the bilateral relations between Japan and the Philippines that \u201csent positive signals\u201d to Japanese investors.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned in a meeting with Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, as cited by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dof.gov.ph\/index.php\/mizuho-bank-eyes-expanding-its-footprint-in-the-philippines\/\">Department of Finance<\/a>, that \u201cwe want to expand our business here, and we ask for your support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayashi added that Mizuho Bank is \u201cvery interested in infrastructure\u201d and is aware of one of the Philippines\u2019 major infrastructure projects\u2014the Philippine National Railways\u2019 North South Commuter Railway Project in Luzon, which will be funded with development assistance loans from the Japan\u00a0International Cooperation Agency (JICA).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he revealed that there will be a seminar in Japan organized by the Bank for investors interested in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pia.gov.ph\/article\/view\/1141481864148\/mizuho-bank-eyes-\">Philippine Information Agency<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mizuhobank.com\/company\/info\/profile\/index.html\">mizuhobank.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dof.gov.ph\/index.php\/mizuho-bank-eyes-expanding-its-footprint-in-the-philippines\/\">Department of Finance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mizuho Bank, one of the largest commercial banks in Japan, plans to expand its footprint in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1767,1769,1768],"class_list":["post-11528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-mizuho-bank","tag-mizuho-bank-ltd","tag-nobuhide-hayashi"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/mizuho.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions\/11532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}