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Mizuho Securities spokesman Toshimitsu Okano declined to comment on how much revenue the team has so far generated.

Other member firms picked up the offer, leaving Mizuho with a large short position that it had to unwind at great expense.

Meanwhile, Mizuho's dream of becoming an Asian equities powerhouse gathers dust, held back by caution and a slow-moving corporate culture.

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Shares in Asian banks, such as Mizuho and Australia's Macquarie, have had a miserable month, pushing down the region's stock markets.

Mizuho Fukushima, SDP head, said she was "very glad" there had been no "hasty decision" .

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Compared with Lehman or Morgan Stanley or other foreign banks, Mizuho is much stricter on the rules.

After the Mizuho Securities incident in December, several senior executives, including the chief executive, had to resign.

"Japan's rural crisis offers a glimpse of the entire nation's future, " said Yasunari Ueno, an economist at Mizuho Securities in Tokyo.

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"The biggest factor [for JGB yields] is the yen levels, " said Hajime Takata, chief fixed income strategist at Mizuho.

Mizuho Financial Group in January said it would provide $1. 2 billion to Merrill Lynch &Co. through the purchase of preferred shares.

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Sumitomo Mitsui and Mizuho, the second- and third-largest financial groups respectively, have followed a similar trend.

Mizuho sounded a cautiously optimistic note on the outlook for the Japanese economy.

Katsuyuki Hasegawa, chief market economist at Mizuho Research Institute, says the anti-debt culture is deeply entrenched.

But lending demand in Asia is growing thanks to the region's vibrant economy, Mizuho's president said.

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On Friday, Mizuho became the latest Japanese bank to announce a huge capital-raising exercise, to the tune of $8bn.

Mizuho Corporate Bank, vice president of derivatives business, and even said that the oil market is likely to once again explore the 70 U.

Mizuho, a Japanese bank, is reportedly planning to raise $11 billion in new equity.

Mizuho's medium-term target is to increase its consolidated Tier 1 capital ratio to 8 per cent.

Hybrid securities accounted for almost a third of Mizuho's Tier 1 capital.

Nozaki expects Mizuho's net profit to total 35 billion yen, against a loss of 145. 1 billion yen a year earlier.

Just to offset bad-loan losses and raise its Tier 1 ratio to 8%, Mizuho needs to raise $22 billion, Macquarie says.

Few outside Japan bother even to learn the names of Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui or Mizuho, Japan's three biggest banks.

Mega- banks such as SMBC and Mizuho are working on enabling credit card payments on their cell phone .

At Mizuho, for example, the ratio of equity holdings to Tier 1 fell from 141 per cent to 49 per cent between 2002 and 2010.

I was disappointed so I decided to not eat sushi until I go back to Japan. --Mizuho

Yasuo Yamamoto, senior economist, Mizuho Research Institute in Tokyo

Mizuho Financial Plans to Raise $8. 4 Billion in Sale of Shares to Public