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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) posted a 2.2 per cent rise in first-quarter net profit on Monday as loan demand in Japan and abroad rode out market volatility over the quarter, after stripping out a one-time item.<\/p>\n
The results from Japan’s largest banking group round off a robust showing for the country’s three “megabanks”, each of which grew profits in the first quarter despite market swings and fears of a global economic slowdown.<\/p>\n
MUFG remains on track to hit its record 2 trillion yen profit forecast for this financial year – a target set in May and that accounted for the wave of uncertainty triggered by the announcement of tariffs by U.S. president Donald Trump in April.<\/p>\n
Including the one-time item – due to a change in the accounting period of a subsidiary – MUFG’s net profit was down 1.8 per cent.<\/p>\n
Net profit reached 546 billion yen ($3.7 billion) in the April-June quarter, compared with 555.9 billion over the same period a year earlier.<\/p>\n
Persistent inflation in Japan after decades of deflation has triggered a wave of borrowing among Japanese firms looking to invest for growth, demand for which held up despite the uncertainty.<\/p>\n
MUFG’s domestic loan balance rose to 75.8 trillion yen at the end of June from 72.7 trillion at the end of June last year.<\/p>\n
The prospect of tariffs has had limited effect on customer behavior so far, MUFG said.<\/p>\n
“The customers expressing concerns about financing or delaying investment are limited,” Takayuki Hara, head of MUFG’s corporate planning division, told a press briefing.<\/p>\n
“The effect on companies’ earnings will become apparent little by little in the second half of the year,” Hara said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the end of negative interest rates in March last year, followed by two hikes since, has finally pushed up lending margins in Japan’s long-suffering banking sector.<\/p>\n
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