Yasutaka Tamura

Kioxia Holdings Corp. faces more wild price swings with leveraged exchange-traded funds tracking the Japanese memory chipmaker’s shares set to be listed in the US.

Kioxia Holdings faces more wild price swings with leveraged exchange-traded funds tracking the Japanese memory chipmaker's shares set to be listed in the U.S.

Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corp. is planning to go public as soon as December, according to people familiar with the matter, five years after being formed through units of Japanese materials companies.

LGT, a private bank owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein, is looking to expand in Japan, betting that it can capture a share of the rising wealth in a market that has historically proved difficult for foreign private banks.

Citigroup Inc. sees more Asian companies selling shares in the US as technology firms look to raise valuations and tap the deep pools of capital in the world’s largest equity market.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co.’s shares fell the most in almost three weeks after its major shareholder Hitachi Ltd. offloaded all holding, in the latest move by the Japanese conglomerate to divest some of its assets to focus on core businesses.

Lintec Corp. shares fell to a three-month low on Friday after its largest shareholder announced plans to dispose its stake, as a growing number of Japanese companies divest non-core assets to improve their capital efficiency.

Japan’s high frequency trader Dharmacapital Co. moved all its staff to Singapore earlier this month, according to people familiar with the matter, effectively leaving Tokyo with no such firms operating out of the city.

Comparatively high income tax rates and language barriers are among the factors cited by some finance professionals for choosing other cities over the Japanese capital.

Leveraged exchange-traded funds linked to single stocks in Japan can amplify volatility in the domestic market and aren’t fit to be sold in the country, the nation’s regulator warned.