JOHANNESBURG/TOKYO Feb 19 (Reuters) – Japan’s Mizuho
Financial Group will sign an agreement to cooperate
with South Africa’s Standard Bank in corporate lending
as early as this week, according to two people familiar with the
matter.
The non-exclusive agreement will focus on bringing more of
Mizuho’s Japanese clients to Africa and Standard Bank’s clients
to Japan, said one of the people, both of whom declined to be
identified because the information is not public.
A spokesman for Mizuho declined to comment. A Standard Bank
spokesman said it would “not be appropriate” to comment.
(Reporting by David Dolan and Taiga Uranaka; Editing by David
Cowell)
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