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Mizuho on US Hiring Spree With Underwriting Goal in Sight

  • Seeks to cement status among top 10 US stock, bond arrangers
  • Recent acquisition of Greenhill is ‘missing piece’ of US push
Pedestrians walk past the Mizuho Financial Group Inc. headquarters in Tokyo.

Pedestrians walk past the Mizuho Financial Group Inc. headquarters in Tokyo.

Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images 

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Mizuho Financial Group Inc.’s securities arm is boosting hiring in the US as it seeks to cement its position among the top 10 stock and bond underwriters in the lucrative market. 

The Japanese bank’s US unit plans to recruit more than 100 people for its investment banking and trading business by the end of March next year, according to Yoshiro Hamamoto, chief executive officer of Mizuho Securities Co.