Japan Post Bank Seen Hurting Most From Kuroda’s Negative Rates
- Reliance on JGBs will dent profit more than peers: SMBC Nikko
- Least-diversified banks are most vulnerable: Jefferies
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Japan Post Bank Co. stands to lose the most from the Bank of Japan’s decision to introduce negative interest rates as plummeting bond yields underscore its reliance on the country’s debt for income.
The postal bank, one of the biggest holders of Japanese government bonds, gets more than 90 percent of its profit from interest income, according to Shinichiro Nakamura, a Tokyo-based senior analyst at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. He sees the company’s earnings taking a bigger hit from the BOJ’s action than the nation’s three so-called megabanks, which unlike Japan Post have been expanding abroad and diversifying into fee businesses.