Establishment of "Fiduciary Duty Advisory Committee" (11:30)(HTML) (PDF/90KB)

-Thorough implementation of customer-oriented business operation-

Mizuho Financial Group ('Mizuho'), under Mizuho's Corporate Identity, has established a common set of central values - called the Mizuho Values - starting with putting our customers first and shared by its employees. As a team of finance professionals providing a broad range of financial services, Mizuho is committed to fulfilling our fiduciary duties in providing the best, most appropriate solutions in response to our customers' diverse needs.

As a long-term partner in providing appropriate products and services that are in our customers' best interests, and in seeking to continue to be our customers' most trusted financial services group in respect to our asset management-related business, Mizuho has established and announced 'Policies Regarding Mizuho's Fiduciary Duty' ('Policies') and concrete action plans of each group company which handles the relevant functions, in the interests of stating clear policies for and making a stronger response. We are following up this initiative from the perspective of customer-oriented business operation and compliance, and reporting this periodically to our board of directors, etc.

Furthermore, under the Medium-term Business Plan which was put in place in fiscal year 2016, Mizuho envisions to become 'A Financial Services Consulting Group - The most trusted partner in solving problems and supporting the sustainable growth of customers and communities', and introduced an in-house companies system with 5 in-house companies based on customer segments to thoroughly strengthen the customer-first, market-oriented approach.

For the purpose of thorough implementation of customer-oriented operation of asset management-related business, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (President & CEO: Yasuhiro Sato, 'MHFG') will introduce the following initiatives.