Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is a Japan-based global financial holding company and one of the country’s major banking groups. Through core subsidiaries—Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Trust & Banking, and Mizuho Securities—it provides banking, trust, and capital markets services worldwide. The group traces its origins to the 2000 integration of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank, and the Industrial Bank of Japan. Headquartered in Tokyo, it operates across Asia, the Americas, and EMEA, is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and has American Depositary Receipts trading on the NYSE (MFG).
For chemical and other industrial clients, Mizuho offers corporate lending, project and structured finance, trade and supply-chain finance, cash management, and risk management solutions such as foreign exchange and interest-rate hedging. Through Mizuho Securities, it provides debt and equity underwriting and M&A advisory. The group also produces sector research and arranges sustainability-linked and green financing aligned with evolving regulatory and decarbonization frameworks.