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How ¥230T+ in postal deposits became the largest single JGB portfolio in Japan — and how post-2015 diversification into US Treasuries, foreign equities and alternatives recast Japan Post Bank as a pension-fund-like institution.
From the 1999 three-way mega-merger to the system outages and the Greenhill + Rakuten Securities trades — Japan's #3 megabank, twenty-six years in, finally feels like one company.
Inside the Jefferies alliance, the ASEAN consumer-finance push (BTPN, VPBank, Mahindra), and the Sumitomo Mitsui Card/SMBC Nikko ecosystem that distinguishes SMFG from MUFG's white-shoe playbook.
Why every foreign investment bank, asset manager and corporate borrower now routes Japan business through MUFG, and what foreign capital should understand about Japan's megabank consolidation.
