In Japanese, “mizuho” means “a fresh harvest of rice”. The name expresses Mizuho Financial Group’s commitment, as one of Japan’s leading financial institutions, to offer highly rewarding financial products and services to all of their clients, both at home and abroad.
Headquartered in London, their EMEA business embodies a global commitment to trust, integrity, and sustainable growth, benefiting the societies in which they operate. As a trusted partner, they offer corporates and institutions in EMEA unparalleled access to Japan and Asia, leveraging deep market expertise. As a long-term strategic relationship oriented bank, Mizuho proactively innovates together with clients for a prosperous and sustainable future.
Operating responsibly and transparently with foresight, Mizuho is deeply committed to serving client needs, enabling their people to flourish, and helping to improve society and communities where they do business.
Inside Mizuho
OUR CULTURE
At Mizuho, we continue to focus on inclusion and celebrating diversity in all its forms. In employing people from different backgrounds, with a diverse range of characteristics and experiences, we are striving to build a workplace that is truly inclusive. Our people are a key strategic pillar in building our business; our differences are our strength and our diversity engenders creativity and positive change. It is these inclusive approaches that have contributed towards the success and sustainability of our business.
inclusion at mizuho emea
As a founding signatory to the UK’s HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter, as well as the first Japanese owned financial institution to sign the Charter demonstrates we are committed to seeing gender balance at all levels across financial services firms. We collaborate with a range of partners who help drive meaningful and inclusive change at Mizuho.
Our strategy for competing in the current and future marketplace is anchored in our core value of being a catalyst for change. Through integrity, passion, agility, creativity, and empathy, we strive to foster an inclusive workplace that drives business performance and success.
With our values at the heart of our culture, we are proud to run Allies programs and initiatives that raise awareness and further strengthen our culture of inclusion.
Mentoring
We offer several mentoring programmes to our employees including internal, reverse and external cross-company programmes. These aim to support a pipeline of targeted talent, which includes programmes that focus on developing our female talent. The mentoring schemes aim to build strong relationships between mentors and mentees, and provide a tangible way to offer practical learning and development for our employees.
Our schemes were recognized in 2018 when they were shortlisted for the 30% Club and Women Ahead #InspiredByMentoring Awards, including categories such as Dynamic Mentoring Organisation of the Year and Dedicated Programme Partner of the Year.”.
Employee Network
Employee Networks are hugely important to us, and across the region we encourage our people to develop and maintain their networks within Mizuho and outside of the Group. It benefits all of us when we are empowered to not only strengthen existing relationships but create new ones. Our networks are employee led, and we support them as they host events, drive campaigns, inform policy development and support wider culture change.
At Mizuho EMEA we have an established Inclusion Network, whose goal is to raise awareness and drive change for employees that want to:
- Drive greater gender balance in Mizuho, aiming to empower, develop and connect women across EMEA;
- Celebrate colleagues from the LGBT+ community, promoting greater awareness and allowing colleagues to bring their whole selves to work;
- Develop Mizuho as an employer of choice for employees looking to balance work and family life, ensuring Mizuho is a family friendly workplace;
- Enhance their careers as future leaders through networking, skills development workshops and experience sharing;
- Acknowledge, support and embrace cultural diversity in all of its forms; and
- Celebrate and learn about different faiths.
