It is perhaps no coincidence that Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Sanwa Bank have the largest Asian loan books.
This autumn it plans to become the second Japanese financial institution (after Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi) on the New York Stock Exchange.
Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi, surpassed by Nikko's new top shareholder, Citigroup, was miffed.
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi has taken on RBS project finance assets, including power, oil and gas and UK infrastructure.
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, for example, can ill afford to be a slush fund for the rest of the group.
The bank holding company trades on the New York Stock Exchange but is majority-owned by Japan's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.
The main bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, is Japan's strongest (a relative term) and until a few weeks ago the world's largest.
That's as many as Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi, the world's largest bank.
At least 6, 000 jobs will have to be cut and 200 branches closed to get costs down just to Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi's level.
Because all banks except Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi have now chosen historical cost accounting, however, all will report capital levels greater than the 8% minimum.
Major retailers reported a 2.2% rise in sales last week compared with the same period last year, according to the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UBS Warburg.
"The Nikkei moves are leading yen moves, because my sense is that's where positions are bigger, " said Derek Halpenny, analyst at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in London.
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, the largest and perhaps strongest of Japan's banks, has a swagger in its step: it has refused to take any of the government's money.
You have to stick with financial institutions like Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Sanwa Bank and Sumitomo Bank, where potential dilution is going to be limited although still fairly large.
"The world's stock markets are in meltdown so the Fed came in with an inter-meeting move to try to stop the panic, " Christopher Rupkey, senior economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
Only the second Japanese financial firm to list - the first was the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi 10 years ago - Orix was in the vanguard of Asian companies to register on the NYSE post-Crisis.
Mike Niemira, an economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, thinks that another cut in American interest rates, plus tax rebates, lower energy costs and less travel, may help to give consumers extra money to spend over Christmas.
Last year Mitsubishi-Tokyo UFJ, operating through the 100 percent subsidiary Union Bank of California, captured 13 percent of this business, placing it in first place.
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