Mizuho Financial Strategy Co.,Ltd. (株式会社みずほフィナンシャルストラテジー) is a company that focuses on providing advisory services. It is the successor of Mizuho Holdings, Inc. (MHI), which was a Japanese

bank holding company A bank holding company is a company that controls one or more banks, but does not necessarily engage in banking itself. The compound bancorp (''banc''/''bank'' + '' corp ration') is often used to refer to these companies as well. United States ...

established in 2000 through the consolidation of

Fuji Bank The was one of Japan's major banks during the post–World War II era. It combined with Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan in 2000 to form Mizuho Financial Group, and changed its name to Mizuho Corporate Bank in 2002 after t ...

Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank , abbreviated as , was one of the largest banks in the world during the latter half of the 20th century. Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank was created in 1971 by a consortium of two banks: Dai-Ichi Bank, Japan's oldest bank, and Nippon Kangyo Bank, a state f ...

, and the

Industrial Bank of Japan The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited (IBJ), based in Tokyo, Japan, was one of the largest banks in the world during the latter half of the 20th century. It combined with Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank in 2002 to form Mizuho Financial Grou ...

. MHI was reorganized on April 1, 2002, when its subsidiaries were realigned and rebranded with the Mizuho name. On March 12, 2003, MHI became a wholly owned subsidiary of

Mizuho Financial Group , abbreviated as MHFG, or simply called Mizuho, is a banking holding company headquartered in the Ōtemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The name "" literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese and "harvest" in the figurative sense. Upo ...

. On October 1, 2005, MHI ceased to be a bank holding company when all of its subsidiaries, including Mizuho Bank, Ltd. and

Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. , or MHCB, was the corporate and investment banking subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, the second-biggest Japanese financial services conglomerate, prior to the reintegration of investment banking services under the Mizuho Bank name in July 20 ...

, were transferred to the direct control of

. MHI was subsequently renamed Mizuho Financial Strategy Co., Ltd.. The company's headquarters are located in

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, Japan.

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