According to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's capital markets strategy team’s 2023 outlook, the decade ahead will be characterized by several prevalent themes, including shorter economic cycles, more rigorous investor scrutiny and long-term supply constraints for commodities. read more

JAN 24, 2023 - 7:17 am

According to Nick Cole, the head of restaurant and hospitality finance at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, the number of U.S. restaurants has not yet rebounded to pre-pandemic levels and is still significantly lower than what it was before COVID-19. read more

JAN 5, 2023 - 7:19 am

Akulaku, a banking and digital finance platform in Southeast Asia, received a $200 million investment from Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. read more

DEC 29, 2022 - 6:49 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) reported that the final required regulatory approvals for the sales of MUFG Union Bank to U.S. Bank have been obtained, with the acquisition now expected to close on Dec. 1. read more

OCT 19, 2022 - 7:08 am

U.S. Bank has received all required U.S. regulatory approvals to complete its previously announced acquisition of MUFG Union Bank’s core regional banking franchise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). read more

OCT 17, 2022 - 7:07 am

U.S. Bancorp and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group extended the outside termination date of the purchase agreement for U.S. Bank’s acquisition of MUFG from Sep. 30, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022. read more

SEP 19, 2022 - 7:50 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) expanded its restaurant finance platform to cover hotel franchises with the hiring of Tracy Vasquez and Steven Getty as directors for its restaurant and hospitality finance team. read more

SEP 13, 2022 - 7:42 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) expanded its newly formed direct lending business and hired Claude Mattessich and Will McCarthy as managing directors and senior originators. read more

SEP 8, 2022 - 7:43 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) launched a direct lending group that will focus on providing loans to the bank's private equity sponsor clients to support their portfolio company LBO and recapitalization transactions. Matt Maley will lead the team. read more

AUG 12, 2022 - 7:23 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group closed of a limited recourse acquisition facility for SKY Leasing, in which the bank acted as co-structuring agent and joint lead arranger.  read more

JUN 30, 2022 - 7:22 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) hired Garret Rowan as head of its leveraged loan trading group and Mike Macchia as a salesperson in leveraged finance sales. Both will be based in New York. read more

JUN 28, 2022 - 7:38 am

Benoist de Vimal joined Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as director and head of origination for aviation in the Americas. de Vimal has more than 15 years of investment banking experience with specialized expertise in originating aircraft structured finance, risk management and debt restructuring. read more

APR 7, 2022 - 6:25 am

Yezdan Badrakhan will join Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) as managing director and head of U.S. esoteric asset-backed securities. Badrakhan previously launched Morgan Stanley’s structured products capital markets transportation business. read more

MAR 17, 2022 - 6:05 am

According to the annual outlook from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s capital markets team, corporates have embarked on a "feverish pace" of capital-expenditure investment and strategic activity in response to a rapidly evolving landscape. read more

JAN 25, 2022 - 6:32 am

The U.S. economy is moving from a post-reopening boom phase toward a moderating period, which, depending on policy prescription, may end up feeling like a mid-cycle slowdown in the second half of 2022, according to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. read more

JAN 19, 2022 - 6:18 am