About London Branch

With approximately 600 staff, the London Branch is the largest of MHCB's offices in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. As such, it co-ordinates activities and provides support to other offices in the region.

It provides an extensive range of corporate lending and deposit-taking activities. Particular strengths include leveraged, structured, asset-based, trade and project finance. These activities are supported and complemented by a sophisticated treasury operation.

The Branch also has certain industrial research capabilities and can provide corporate clients with a range of customised advice on inward and outward investment, merger and acquisitions, structuring and arranging of project finance, etc.

By employing professionals drawn from many different nationalities, who have specialised knowledge and expertise in their chosen area of finance, we aim to be the best partner for our clients. Additionally, we seek to achieve innovation and creativity to meet clients’ needs and adapt to changes in market circumstances. Although based in the United Kingdom, we maintain a global perspective and aim to behave with the highest integrity, making a positive contribution to the global economy and society.

Mizuho Corporate Bank (MHCB) services the needs of clients in the Europe, Middle East and African region through a network of offices, of which London Branch is the largest. The network is being developed to cover other major financial centres and includes full service branches in London, Paris, Milan and Dusseldorf, Representative Offices at Bahrain and Tehran, and subsidiary offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid, Moscow and Frankfurt. Most recently, in 2008 we opened a branch in Dubai, to improve our support for clients undertaking business in the Middle East. In total MHCB employs approximately 1,000 people in the region, who take care of an asset base (funded and unfunded commitments) of more than USD 50 billion.

The aim of this network is to provide our clients with leading-edge products and services that are designed to meet their needs and objectives. The target client base includes corporations, governments, financial institutions and sponsors throughout the region.

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London Branch is active in promoting corporate and social responsibility in the conduct of its business. We seek to ensure that Mizuho's basic polices are put into practice when managing our business, whether it is respect for diversity of our employees or our approach to corporate citizenship.

Further information on CSR can be obtained from 'Mizuho's CSR'.