Mizuho--Some Important Points about This Broker

General Information

The history of Mizuho Financial Group (Mizuho) dates back to 1873 with the establishment of Dai-Ichi Bank, the first national bank in Japan. Mizuhos European presence dates back to 1952. They have continued to grow, spreading throughout the EMEA region. EMEA is a key part of the Group's global ambitions and going forward they are committed to their presence in this region and they are well positioned to increase it.

Advisory $ Solutions

1. Cross-Border Advisory

As one of the foreign banks granted local bank status in China, they have a strong presence in Asia and are positioned to arrange and support cross-border opportunities for clients. Partnering their advisory groups in EMEA with those in the US and Asia, alongside their Japanese bankers, provides them the ability to connect local knowledge with in-depth industry insight. They support clients with advisory services in cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions, financial structuring and cooperate strategy.

2. M&A Advisory

Their London-based mergers & acquisitions advisory team provides a comprehensive M&A advisory service that includes origination, structuring, valuation, due diligence and negotiation.

3. Advisory & Arranging Services

Mizuho Saudi Arabia Company (MSAR), a subsidiary of Mizuho Bank, has been operating as an investment bank in Riyadh since 2009. The bank is licensed and regulated by the Capital Market Authority (CMA), but this needs to be investigate further, offering Advisory and Arranging services. Therefore Wikifx can not guarantee the validity of the license.

4. Strategic Capital Solutions and Advisory

The Strategic Capital Solutions and Advisory Group (SCSAG) provides innovative, and integrated investment banking solutions to their clients, and specifically supports clients to raise funds from private markets.

Financing

Under financial services, Mizuho offers the Below services

1. Corporate Finance

Their corporate finance team helps clients optimise their balance sheet through capital structure analysis and liability management studies to find the perfect financing solutions.

2. Debt Capital Markets

Mizuho provide innovative solutions by working with their relationship management and advisory partners across a broad range of fixed income and equity products.

3. Derivatives

They Provides derivatives products and solutions to their EMEA and global client base; from idea generation and origination to structuring and efficient execution.

4. Equity Capital Markets

We market the full range of equity and equity-linked products to clients, underwrite and manage risk positions, market and syndicate transactions.

5. Export Finance

Mizuho Group focus is in mobilising and arranging European Export Credit Agency (“EECA”) backed debt facilities to finance export contracts involving the bank's exporting and borrowing clients, across all regions of the world.

6. Financial Solutions

This company help clients in meeting their financial needs, whether through Securitisation, Future Flow Securitisation, Real Estate Finance, or Islamic Finance.

7. International Finance

They provide corporate and investment banking services to Non-Japanese clients, including corporates, financial institutions, central banks, and sovereigns/sovereign enterprises in Russia, CIS, Central East Europe and Africa.

8. Japanese Corporate Finance

They provide corporate and investment banking services to Japan-based corporations that have an interest in the EMEA region and want to work seamlessly within its borders.

9. Leveraged Finance

With a continuously active track years in the EMEA Leveraged finance market, their team have a track record in Leveraged Finance and deep relationships with the key private equity players across EMEA.

10. Project Finance

With Mizuho Group outstanding track record in project finance, they are among the lead arrangers.

11. Syndicated Finance

They leverage their worldwide lead arranger capabilities to provide clients with domestic and cross-border financing solutions and access to investors around the world.

12. Trade Finance

Their extensive trade finance solutions help clients buy and sell goods globally.

Global Markets

Under Global Markets, Mizuho offers the following services to their clients.

1. Fixed Income

They provide an extensive range of fixed income products and solutions to a wide range of institutional investors across the EMEA region and globally.

2. Foreign Exchange

For their corporate clients, they provide hedging solutions, focusing on liability risk management and structured deposits. To better coordinate risk management activities,their teams are at the ready, around the world—New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.

3. Equities

They provide pan-Asian equity sales and research, corporate access and execution. This service encompasses cash, as well as convertible bonds and derivative products.

Trade $ Cash Management

Under this section, Mizuho Group has the following services on offered

1. Deposit

They take deposits from corporate and institutional clients through a variety of channels.

Current products include:

• Current and savings accounts

• Time Deposit

• Certificate of Deposit

• Repurchase Agreements (Repos

2. Foreign Exchange

Their strategic consultation, execution and excellence in FX research can make them a full-service market maker and active liquidity provider in all major OTC currency markets

3. Transaction Banking

They are a known in providing short, medium and long term transaction banking solutions for individual transactions or portfolios, by leveraging our in-depth product knowledge, and market leading capital-raising and risk-mitigation capabilities.

Trust Banking

Mizuho Group offers some services also under trust Banking sector, like;

1. Fund Administration

Their team offers personalized attention and sophisticated knowledge of fund administration and fund accounting, and clients receive superb support in structuring investment vehicles to make sure the final structures are sound and in line with their unique requirements and expectations. They offer a wide range of services for both publicly offered and privately placed investment vehicles, and our clients know their funds and investment companies are well-administered.

2.Global Custody

Owing to client confidence in their custody services expertise, they are among the konwn Japanese banks offering these services. With close coordination with colleagues working in their securities and investments business, they provide a securities lending service to meet our clients needs to flexibly generate positive revenue from their portfolio, obtain current rates of return and operate efficiently

3. Security Agency

They offer a variety of agency services to support issuers and arrangers with their international capital market activities and with our expertise, they will help you find the right securities lending program for your particular situation.

Insight and Research.

Mizuhos insights provide business intelligence that can help you make strategic decisions based on fact – not modelled fiction. their analysts, economists and strategists create timely, in-depth analysis of companies, industries, markets and economies. Their research yields some of the most respected thought leadership in equity and fixed-income investing. On this foundation, they collaborate and consult with their clients to better inform their investment decisions and identify opportunities across major asset classes and geographies. Their rates strategists cover rates markets in both cash and derivatives, researching macro and micro themes and providing frequent analysis and trade ideas. Their credit analysts provide coverage of a wide range of individual credits, including banks and non-financial corporates.

Customer Support

MIZUHO Group have a lots of contacts number aimed for clients from different locations to make enquiries and complaints, which can be found in their website. This means clients can chose to contacts customer support that are more closer to them or which they expect quick and nice response. Below are some of their customers support line

Vienna, Australia

tel.+43 1 269 1000 00.

Manama, Bahrain

tel.+973 17 224522

Brussels, Belgium

tel.+32 2 645 5280

Paris, France.

tel.+33 1 5383 4000