Heard on the Street: Tokyo has pushed its banking system to its limit
Banking in a country where almost nobody defaults sounds easy. For Japan’s lenders, it is anything but.
After almost three decades of near-zero, zero, and now negative interest-rate policies, Tokyo has pushed its banking system to its limit. The country’s smaller lenders in particular are facing an existential threat to their business models....
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