About bank
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is a global bank with operations in 50 countries. The financial institution provides investment and strategy advice, facilitates liquidity, and assists with risk management. It also provides transaction banking and wealth management services by developing comprehensive financial solutions and helps businesses execute them well.
In October 2005, a Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group merger with UFJ Holdings inaugurated MUFG. The company is located on the 15th Floor, 6788 Ayala Avenue, Makati City, Metro Manila. It provides Filipinos with investment advice, as well as services for liquidity, risk management, transaction banking, and wealth management.
Pros and cons
Although MUFG is a worldwide bank that provides various services and products to help businesses succeed locally and globally, it also has its constraints. If you want to use MUFG services to gain access to specific markets, you should first learn about the benefits and drawbacks of doing so as they may not be available in your target market.
Pros
- They guarantee customers convenient, dependable, and secure domestic peso transfer with no inward fees.
- They enable customers to use SWIFT, a messaging system that improves productivity by automating the entire process from invoicing to account reconciliation.
- They provide customers with timely, reliable, insightful information and analysis, focusing mainly on the foreign exchange market.
Cons
The maximum loan term is short, usually 24 days.
The loan might attract fees for defaulting.
Products
MUFG offers the following products and services:
Corporate and investment banking
MUFG corporate and investment banking offers services such as loan syndication, structured finance, and working capital solutions. Here are a few examples:
Syndicated loan. This entails loan syndication, in which they aggregate loans from a collection of local or international banks to provide borrowers with funding. When a borrower requests a loan that is too large, MUFG has a presence in global financial centers and an integrated team of market experts that offers a syndicated loan to them.
Samurai loan. It offers a yen-denominated cross-border syndicated loan to Filipinos due to the ample liquidity of Japanese investors.
Project finance. They arrange financing to meet the needs of borrowers while assisting them with technical and legal project risk analysis.
Cross-border syndicated loan. MUFG underwrites and syndicates loans with offshore investors in various regions to provide borrowers with access to overseas funding. This loan usually lasts three to five years and is available in all major currencies.
Export credit agency (ECA) finance. This service advises and arranges financing with ECAs worldwide to support customers' export and import transactions.
Acquisition finance. This comprises Leveraged Buyout acquisition schemes, such as senior loans, cash or equity bridge loans, and CAPEX facilities, which private equity funds mostly use.
Real estate finance. They assist their clients with real estate non-recourse loans, in which borrowers repay the principal and interest solely from cash flows generated by commercial and non-commercial real estate.
Ship finance. The company offers competitive financing solutions for vessel acquisitions depending on several parameters, such as the vessel's purchase price and current fair market value. The loan amount is determined by whether a ship operator leases the vessel, and the transaction structure determines the security package.
Other types of finance. MUFG also provides Green Climate Fund, securitization, account receivables purchase scheme ("ARPS"), and supply chain finance funding.
Transaction Banking
MUFG provides cost-effective solutions that help customers grow their businesses daily through cash management and trade solutions. These solutions include:
Cash management. Among other services, it utilizes COMSUITE, a total transaction banking system, GCMS Plus, an international Internet banking service for corporate clients with expanding worldwide operations, and Global Payments Hub (GPH), a host-to-host payments service.
Trade finance. Risk consulting teams assist organizations with trade transactions, finance, and management.
Cross-border payments. The company uses SWIFT in cross-border payments, which speeds up payment settlement across payment infrastructures while screening for sanctions and mitigating financial fraud.