Nobuya Kawasaki
Managing Executive Officer and Chief Executive for Asia Pacific, MUFG Bank, Ltd.
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Nobuya Kawasaki is Chief Executive for Asia Pacific of MUFG Bank, responsible for overseeing the safety and soundness of the bank’s operations across 18 markets in the region, as well as business promotion led by the Global Corporates, Japanese Corporates and Commercial Banking business groups.
A banker with close to three decades of M&A and corporate finance experience, he was involved with MUFG’s strategic investments in Asia, specifically with the Security Bank in the Philippines in 2016 and Indonesia’s Bank Danamon in 2017.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Kawasaki was Deputy Group Head of the Global Commercial Banking Business Group, where he was responsible for promoting collaborations among MUFG and its invested financial institutions, especially in Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines and in Indonesia. In addition, he led some of the bank’s other inorganic strategic investments in the fintech sector that included True Money in Thailand and GCash in the Philippines.
