MUFG Selected Best Commodity Finance Bank in North America By Trade Finance for the Second Consecutive Year
March 21 2017 - 10:40AM
Business Wire
Bank Also Captures a Pair of 2017 Deal of
the Year Honors At Publication’s Annual Americas Awards
Ceremony
For the second consecutive year, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group,
Inc. (MUFG) was selected as the Best Commodity Finance Bank in
North America by Trade Finance at the news organization’s
annual awards ceremony here on March 16.
This Smart News Release features multimedia.
View the full release here:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170321006085/en/
Marcie Weiss (Photo: Business Wire)
One of the world's leading financial groups, MUFG also captured
two Trade Finance 2017 Deal of the Year honors for the Americas
region in recognition of the following transactions:
- The KECA-backed Loan for Lotte Chemical
Corporation USA (U.S., $1.59 billion); and
- The Enercon Niagara 230-megawatt wind
farm (Canada, $616.5 million)
“To be acknowledged by Trade Finance as North America’s best
Commodity Finance Bank two years in a row is an impressive, and
humbling, achievement for our entire team,” said Marcie
Weiss, MUFG’s Head of Commodity Finance North America.
“However, we know these accolades are only possible thanks to the
trust and support we receive from clients. MUFG sincerely
appreciates the opportunity to play a part in our clients’ growth
and development.”
Trade Finance is a Euromoney news and analytics service focused
on structured-trade and supply-chain finance.
About MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation
Headquartered in New York, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation is
a financial holding company and bank holding company with total
assets of $148.1 billion at December 31, 2016. Its main
subsidiaries are MUFG Union Bank, N.A. and MUFG Securities Americas
Inc. MUFG Union Bank, N.A. provides an array of financial services
to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and
major corporations. As of December 31, 2016, MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
operated 365 branches, comprised primarily of retail banking
branches in the West Coast states, along with commercial branches
in Texas, Illinois, New York and Georgia, as well as two
international offices. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. is a
registered securities broker-dealer which engages in capital
markets origination transactions, private placements,
collateralized financings, securities borrowing and lending
transactions, and domestic and foreign debt and equities securities
transactions. MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation is owned by The
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial
Group, Inc., one of the world’s leading financial groups. The Bank
of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. Visit www.unionbank.com or
www.mufgamericas.com for more information.
About MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.)
MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.) is one of the
world's leading financial groups, with total assets of
approximately $2.6 trillion (USD) as of December 31, 2016.
Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history,
MUFG is a global network with more than 2,200 offices in nearly 50
countries. The Group has more than 140,000 employees and about 300
entities, offering services including commercial banking, trust
banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset
management, and leasing. The Group's operating companies include
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking
Corporation (Japan's leading trust bank), and Mitsubishi UFJ
Securities Holdings Co., Ltd., one of Japan's largest securities
firms. Through close partnerships among our operating companies,
the Group aims to "be the world's most trusted financial group,"
flexibly responding to all of the financial needs of our customers,
serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a
better world. MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New
York (MTU) stock exchanges. Visit
www.mufg.jp/english/index.html.
View source
version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170321006085/en/
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.Rich Silverman,
212-782-5953rsilverman@us.mufg.jp
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (NYSE:MUFG)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2024 to Apr 2024
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (NYSE:MUFG)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2023 to Apr 2024