IBA Information Forum Luncheon
| Date: |
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| Time: |
12:00 to 13:30 P.M. |
| Venue: |
Goldman Sachs, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 47th Floor, Multi-purpose Room 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku |
| Cost: |
Y3,000 |
The Strategic Choices Facing Japanese Banks
The IBA held a luncheon featuring a well-known and respected analyst from one of our member securities firms.
Guest Speaker:
Mr. David Atkinson, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.
(This presentation was conducted in English.)
Mr. Atkinson addressed the following timely issues facing the Japanese banking sector:
1) The options that the banks have;
2) The impact of those options;
3) The challenges faced by Japanese banks in retail banking; and
4) The shocking lack of infrastructure in Japanese banks.
For the past 17 years, Mr. Atkinson has been an analyst covering Japanese banks. Over the course of his career, he has reviewed the structural issues in Japanese banking, and has created international benchmark comparisons at the micro level in order to get a consensus view. In 1998, he published a controversial report entitled "Does Japan Only Need 2-4 Banks?" before consolidation started. He has an MA from Oxford University in Oriental Studies (Japanese).