It turns out that Mizuho Financial Group, which is experiencing a series of system failures, has begun to make adjustments to appoint Mr. Seiji Imai, who is currently the vice president of the holding company, to replace Chairman Yasuhiro Sato, who will retire in April. I did.
In Mizuho Financial Group, where system failures are occurring one after another, President Tatsufumi Sakai will take responsibility and resign, and Chairman Yasuhiro Sato, who will reach his term in April, will also resign.
According to the people concerned, Mizuho is in the process of appointing Mr. Seiji Imai, who is currently the vice president of the holding company, as the successor to Chairman Sato.
Mr. Imai is 59 years old.
In 1986, he joined Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank at that time, and after working as the manager of Mizuho Bank's Seoul branch and the head of the Asia-Oceania region, he became the head of the sales department for large companies at a holding company in April last year. Has been promoted to Vice President.
On the other hand, we are making adjustments to appoint Mr. Masahiro Kihara, who is the managing director of the bank, to succeed President Sakai, and we will officially decide on such personnel at the upcoming board of directors.
At Mizuho, the president of the bank, Koji Fujiwara, will also resign, and the question will be whether it will be possible to thoroughly prevent recurrence by reforming the management system.