is the

investment banking Investment banking pertains to certain activities of a financial services company or a corporate division that consist in advisory-based financial transactions on behalf of individuals, corporations, and governments. Traditionally associated wit ...

arm of the

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is a Japanese bank holding and financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG holds assets of around US$3.1 trillion as of 2016 and is one of the "Three Great Houses" of the Mitsubishi Group alongside Mitsubishi Corpor ...

(MUFG), a

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company which is the largest in

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measured by

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. The company is headquartered in

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. The company was established on October 1, 2005, when the firm's parent company,

, was formed by the merger of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG) and

UFJ Holdings UFJ, which stands for the United Financial of Japan, is used in the former companies of UFJ Bank, UFJ Group, and UFJ Holdings. These related institutions disappeared after the merger of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank in 2005. UFJ Bank its ...

. On the same day, the respective investment banking subsidiaries of MTFG and UFJ, Mitsubishi Securities Co., Ltd.(established in March 1948) and UFJ Tsubasa Securities Co., Ltd.(established in April 1948), were merged to form Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd. The international Chief Risk Officer is Oliver Jakob.

Shareholders

(100%)

External links

sc.mufg.jp/english
(in English) {{Authority control Financial services companies established in 2005 Banks established in 2005 Banks of Japan Investment banks of Japan Companies formerly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mitsubishi companies Midori-kai 2005 establishments in Japan Financial services companies based in Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group