Japan: Change is coming – but not in a rush

Japan still boasts the world’s second-largest economy but its investment banking markets remain immature compared with western peers. In two articles, Euromoney spoke to key bankers in Tokyo about the economic renaissance and what it means for investment banking in Japan. Chris Leahy reports.

No unfriendly M&A please, we’re Japanese

THERE IS A discernible spring in the well-heeled steps of Tokyo’s banking community and the bars and restaurants around Otemachi and Roppongi Hills are full. After more than a decade in the economic wilderness, corporate Japan is expanding again and in need of investment banking services.

In most developed banking markets that might spell the start of investment banking good times. Japan, though, is different. Despite a vast economy and savings, markets lag their western counterparts in sophistication and development.

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