Aflac Japan accounted for over 70% of pre-tax adjusted earnings and achieved a record 36% pretax profit margin for the year. Persistency in Japan remained solid at 93.4%, while U.S. persistency ...

Trump’s arrival has added to pre-existing worries. Despite an International Monetary Fund official declaring in October that ...

Foreign lenders are racing to give loans to Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) as the oil-to-telecom conglomerate is India's most valued firm boasting a BBB+ credit rating, which is ...

The two US banks’ role in the bid would be to refinance the debt of Seven & i’s US unit, one of the people said. The company ...

Among those reportedly interested are JP Morgan, Australia’s ANZ, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo, Germany’s ...

Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday as markets mulled the impact of tariffs being imposed by the United States and China ...

Hedge funds scrambled to sell shares in North American and European companies last month in a sign that the world’s top money ...

All three of Japan's "megabanks" are on course for record annual income after the first nine months of the financial year as ...

ROGER W. FERGUSON, JR., is the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. (SMBC Nikko America), a registered broker-dealer and direct subsidiary of SMBC Americas ...