When Japan's biggest banks helped finance a $34 billion deal last year for medical supply maker Medline, one of the largest leveraged buyouts since the financial crisis, the famously cautious lenders signalled their ambitions in riskier, and more lucrative, low-grade U.S. debt.
, eagerly hunting yield abroad after years of zero rates at home, have beefed up U.S. operations and are now targeting business there lending to lower-rated borrowers and underwriting junk bonds.
, had a 1.6% share of the estimated $18 billion fees in the non-investment grade debt market last year, according to Dealogic, the most of any Japanese bank. Developing that expertise has been a challenge for Japanese banks, requiring more reliance on local staff and adoption of a faster-moving business culture, they say.
Rivals took notice when Mizuho's profits from the U.S. business surged in 2020, said a senior executive at another megabank. But the expansion in the United States, and especially in the high-yield debt market, will pose new risks for the big lenders. While Japanese financial institutions generally hedge against the risk of default by selling on the loans in the secondary market, they have been stung on Wall Street before.took a $2.9 billion hit. During the subprime crisis, Mizuho was the worst hit of the Japanese banks, losing some $6 billion.
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