Profile of Mizuho Corporate , , Mizuho Trust & Banking, and Mizuho Investors Securities

Mizuho Corporate Bank

We are serving major corporations (such as those listed on the first section of domes- tic stock exchanges) and their group companies, financial institutions, public sector entities, and Japanese and foreign companies overseas. We are collaborating with group companies to strengthen and combine commer- cial banking and traditional , including M&A advisory services, and the underwriting of bonds and equities, as well as sales and trading activities. This is enabling us to take our place as a “top corporate finance provider” and offer optimal global financial solutions that meet the needs of our customers in Yasuhiro Sato President & CEO and overseas. , Ltd. Our overseas strategy is to fully utilize our overseas network, which comprises 68 offices located in 30 countries and regions, to meet the needs not only of Japanese corporations but also non-Japanese companies in a timely manner. Especially in Asia, we now have 33 offices outside Japan, and we will continue to strengthen our net- work in the years ahead. By mobilizing our knowledge and understanding of industries and all of our capa- bilities, we aim to be the financial institution as the “best possible partner” to work with our customers in implementing their strategies and to fulfill our social mission as a supplier of global industrial finance to facilitate the development of corporations and industries.

Mizuho Bank

Working in cooperation with group companies, we offer comprehensive primarily to SMEs and middle-market corporations and their owners, as well as individuals. To satisfy customers throughout their lives, we apply a consulting-style approach in offering membership-based services, asset management products, loan products, and other services appropriate for each customer's life stage and needs. In addition, through the establishment of joint branches with Mizuho Trust & Banking and Mizuho Investors Securities, we are offering diversified services while enhancing cus- Takashi Tsukamoto President & CEO tomer convenience. Mizuho Bank, Ltd. At the same time, we develop various types of products to meet a broad range of corporate customers' financing needs and actively engage in disaster recovery sup- port and consulting on business matching, business inheritance, overseas business development, and other core management matters. We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our deepest apologies to all of our customers who have experienced inconvenience caused by the computer system failures of Mizuho Bank in March of last year. With a strong resolution to prevent its recurrence, we are implementing countermeasures regarding system functions to our fullest. By putting our “customer first policy” into action throughout our business, every member of the management and all officers and employees will work together as one and focus on relentlessly challenging for change and speedy results aiming to become the “most trusted financial institution.”

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Mizuho Trust & Banking

While promoting our initiatives to provide trust products and services to the cus- tomers of group companies, we enhance our expertise and productivity by focusing our resources on unique fields where we can exercise our strength in trusts. For individual customers, we offer asset management services applying money trusts and other products, testamentary trusts and other asset inheritance services, and real estate and other wealth management services. For corporate customers, we offer cutting-edge trust solutions based on our consulting functions by leveraging Takashi Nonaka our strengths in asset management and custody, pension, real estate, asset securiti- President & CEO zation, stock transfer agency services, and other asset management businesses. Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. In our quest to become “the best and the most excellent trust bank, placing emphasis on the trust business,” we will focus our energies on providing high-quality trust products and services that accurately respond to customer needs.

Mizuho Securities

Striving to be “the most reliable investment bank with global reach,” we are work- ing in close collaboration with Mizuho Corporate Bank and other group companies to provide optimal solutions that meet the wide-ranging needs of domestic and overseas customers, including institutional investors, corporations, financial institu- tions, public-sector entities and individuals. In our investment banking business, we offer equities, bond and other securities underwriting operations, support for IPOs, advisory services for various types of financial matters and capital management, M&A advisory, structured finance, and Hiroshi Motoyama President other services. In our products provision and sales business, we engage in sales and Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. trading operations of equities, bonds and other securities, and offer investment products and research.

Mizuho Investors Securities

Aiming to be “the securities company that customers trust most to be close to them,” we are collaborating with other group companies to respond to our cus- tomers' broad array of needs. For individual customers, we offer asset management and investment services in a timely and appropriate manner through such measures as expanding joint branches with Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Trust & Banking. Meanwhile, for corporate cus- tomers, we offer multidimensional services, including the proposal of asset manage- Katsuyoshi Ejima ment approaches, IPO support and advice on capital management, and consulting President services such as M&A and IR activities. Mizuho Investors Securities Co., Ltd.

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