This Month: People.(The Banker honors Central Bank of Nigeria's Charles Soludo with Banker of the Year Award)(Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.'s Nobuo Kuroyanagi aims high)(Brief article)

Banker, The, February, 2006

Nobuo Kuroyanagi, president of new world banking colossus Mitsubishi UFJ, has ambitions as big as the group he heads. Mr Kuroyanagi has been reported as saying he would consider buying a foreign company to improve profitability. He believes it is crucial to expand Mitsubishi UFJ's banking business alongside economic development in China and southeast Asia, and that if an overseas company has services that Mitsubishi's clients want, the bank wouldn't rule out an acquisition.

- Professor Charles Soludo, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, receives The Banker's 2006 Global & Africa Central Banker of the Year Award from editor-in-chief Stephen Timewell at a glittering ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel on January 19, attended by more than 300 international...

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