Japan's Mizuho building warchest for Asia fintech investments

Japan's Mizuho building warchest for Asia fintech investments

The Mizuho Financial Group Inc. headquarters, center right, stands at dusk in this photograph taken with a fish-eye lens in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, April 21, 2017. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

Mizuho Financial Group aims to build a warchest of several billion dollars in the next five years to target financial technology in Asia, its chief said, as the Japanese megabank looks to chart a different path from its bigger rivals.

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