Expand services that respond to a society with a declining birthrate and aging population
We address customer needs by providing face–to–face consulting and lifestyle support as a partner helping customers design their lives in a way that is aligned with their changing interests and concerns in a society that faces a declining birthrate and aging population, as well as an age of longevity.
Finance
Through financing, we support initiatives in the medical and nursing care fields for national and local governments, corporate clients, and individual customers.
Social Impact Bonds
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are a Pay for Success-style scheme under which a governing authority utilizes private funding to finance an initiative. The governing authority uses private capital and expertise to enact social change, and makes outcomes–based payments depending on initiative results.
SIBs are expected to be utilized in the future to remedy various social issues in fields such as medicine, nursing care, labor, and education.
Mizuho is committed to working in collaboration with governing authorities and businesses to help local communities solve their issues and activate their economies through SIBs.
Impact Investment fund
Mizuho is a participating investor in the Japan Impact Investment II fund which, as a form of infrastructure for the support and development of startup companies working to resolve social issues, supports startups that operate childcare, nursing care, and new work style–related businesses.
This fund aims to create a sustainable society by focusing on working people, and targets medical care, nursing care, healthcare, childcare and work style–related businesses, such as companies contributing to building an environment where people in different situations can continue working despite their life events such as child and nursing care; educational and nursery care service providers contributing to developing next–generation talent; and companies supporting the balance between childcare and nursing care. The fund invests in early to later stage companies with JPY 100 to 500 million per investment. As an impact investment fund aiming to secure both economic and social returns, the fund continues contributing to solving social challenges through investment, by building partnerships with investors, businesses, and various experts.
Loans to companies and medical institutions
Mizuho Clinic Assist loans for clinics
To meet the facility establishment and facility operation–related funding needs of doctors who are in private practices or preparing to create such practices, Mizuho Bank offers favorable financing methods under the title of Mizuho Clinic Assist.
The Mizuho Clinic Assist loan products for medical clinics
Products for individual customers
As the average lifespan grows longer, there is serious societal concern regarding the financial stability of people as they reach old age, and financial institutions are increasingly expected to serve a role in helping customers lead worry–free lives in their later years. To address our customers' lifestyle needs in old age, we are providing individual customers with financial planning and consultation to ensure stability in their later years, home renovation loans to make houses barrier–free, as well as developing and providing products and services that are of interest to older people.
Multifunctional Safety Trust responding to the various needs of older customers
In Multifunctional Safety Trust accounts, Mizuho Trust & Banking manages funds deposited by customers in principal–guaranteed financial instruments, and customers can use the funds for the functions and services they need when they need them.
In addition to providing financial services, such as request for consent of payout, annual fund giving, and other services, Mizuho provides lifestyle–support services. These include introductions to companies offering such services as caregiving, nursing homes, and housekeeping on a favorably discounted basis.
| As of March 31, 2022 | As of March 31, 2023 | As of March 31, 2024 | |
| Total number of cases handled | 3,096 | 4,328 | 4,849 |
| Total amount handled | JPY 121.837billion | JPY 169.415billion | JPY 192.032billion |
Multifunctional Safety Trust
Dementia Support Trust: Creating a society in which people can retain their autonomy even if they are afflicted by dementia
Mizuho Trust & Banking offers a Dementia Support Trust, which allows customers to put their financial affairs in order by designating funds to be used for things such as living and medical expenses in case they suffer from dementia later in life.
| As of March 31, 2022 | As of March 31, 2023 | As of March 31, 2024 | |
| Total number of cases handled | 1,117 | 1,161 | 1,186 |
| Total amount handled | JPY 8,047billion | JPY 8,776 billion | JPY 8,971 billion |
Dementia Support Trust
Guardianship support trusts
Mizuho Trust & Banking offers guardianship support trusts with the main objective of helping monetary asset management by users of the adult guardianship scheme due to senile dementia or disabilities.
Linked to the adult guardianship scheme under Japanese law, the product is only available to users of the scheme (although actual subscription is performed by the adult guardian appointed by the family court).
The monies entrusted to us are not only transferred periodically for the benefit of the users under the (written) instruction of the family court but also used for incidental payments, also under the instruction of the family court. We thus ensure timely and appropriate payments while preserving the precious assets of the users.
| Fiscal year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Number of contracts | 3,024 | 2,724 | 2,476 |
| Contract amount (in millions of yen) | 91,152 | 83,058 | 76,148 |
Offering products and services that meet the needs of children with disabilities and their families
Mizuho Trust & Banking, in cooperation with other companies, develops and offers a wide range of trust banking services for its customers.
Mizuho's Life Insurance Trust (Mirai Anshin (Future Safety) Support Type) is mainly intended for family policy holders who have children with disabilities. When family members pass away, it provides planned benefit support for the children of the family.
Going forward, Mizuho Trust & Banking will offer products and services that are readily available to children with disabilities and their families throughout their lifetimes.
| Fiscal year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Number of contracts | 91 | 125 | 177 |
| Contract amount (in millions of yen) | 527 | 789 | 1,096 |
Mizuho's Life Insurance Trust (Mirai Anshin (Future Safety) Support Type)
Mizuho Reverse 60
Mizuho Reverse 60 is a mortgage loan that enables customers aged 60 or above to use their owner-occupied house (home) as collateral to borrow funds to purchase or rebuild a home.
The monthly payments cover only the interest on the loan, and the principal is repaid upon the death of the borrower either by sale of the home or a lump-sum payment by the heirs.
In our graying society, this product meets the growing need of older customers to change their living situations and helps them realize a more affluent lifestyle in their later years.
Mizuho to Start Offering "Mizuho Reverse 60" Reverse Mortgage Loan (PDF/282KB)
| Fiscal year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Number of contracts at the end of the period | 3 | 74 | 154 |
| Balance at the end of the period (millions of yen) | 30 | 999 | 2,055 |
Group credit life insurance for those diagnosed with cancer
This group credit life insurance offered by Mizuho Bank provides complete repayment of the customer's home loan regardless of their employment situation, in the case that they are diagnosed with cancer while repaying the loan.
Information about group credit life insurance for those diagnosed with cancer (PDF/132KB)
Consulting and other services
Through services including research, consulting, piloting, seminars and business matching, we offer policy research on general social security field, as well as business consulting for national and local governments and corporate clients.
National and local governments
Support for policy planning on healthcare, medical care, welfare and nursing care
Mizuho Research & Technologies provides central and local government bodies with support for policy planning on general social security field. More specifically, the Social Policy Consulting Division provides services ranging from the development of evidence (current-status grasping, analysis, evaluation and prediction based on big data analysis, questionnaire surveys and impact validation data), required when considering systemic reforms, and the results of studies and interviews on advanced cases and overseas practices, to the identification of issues facing the existing system, proposals for improvement and consulting support to realize a sustainable social security system. We are addressing various topics including on healthcare, medical care, nursing care, welfare, pension systems, employed labor and talent.
Regarding research planning and solution proposal, we have an ambitious objective of providing effective consulting support with integrated intelligence, working with internal and external teams specialized in science, technology and digital transformation (DX).
Consultation on health, medical, and long-term care policy
Consultation on welfare, pensions and a convivial society
Cases in health, medical and long-term care
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to the reconciliation of treatment with work
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to assistance for family carers
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to medical and dental systems, exercise, diet, rest and stress alleviation
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to the visualization of the social impact of goods and services based on social contribution indicators
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to the promotion of DX and introduction of remote work at long-term care offices
Cases in welfare and a convivial society
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to children's places
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to the handling of children requiring medical care in company-led childcare services
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to the education of, support for, and social participation of children and persons with developmental disabilities
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to social childcare
- Study, research and policymaking support for the protection of the right of, economic support for, and social independence of children and youth
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to the social participation and independence of persons in solitude or isolation
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to a convivial society inclusive of the dementia
- Study, research and policymaking support pertaining to decision-making assistance
Companies and health insurance associations
Support to private companies for business viability assessment and new business creation
- We provide support for business viability assessment, marketing surveys and new business creation, based on insights into policy and regulatory developments in social security.
- We consider various topics including healthcare, medical care, long-term care, welfare, employment labor and talent.
Cases of consulting service
- Study and research intended to promote the medical industry
- Consulting service pertaining to a convivial society inclusive of the dementia
Efforts to improve employee health and optimize medical care expenses
Leveraging the know–how it has accumulated in the course of such activities as creating and operating medical care expense analysis systems and systems for medical care insurance providers, Mizuho Research & Technologies provides Healstep® (a next-generation healthcare business promotion service), a solution for health insurers involved in the "Data Health Plans," as provided for in the government's Japan Revitalization Strategy.
With Healstep®, we provide holistic support for the development of a coverage/intervention policy in light of the morbidity risk and healthcare project outcomes visualized by AI forecasts of future medical expenses, matching with a better healthcare guidance service provider, promotion of use with a health promotion app providing a constant point of contact, and the evaluation and improvement of executed measures.
Healstep®, a next-generation healthcare business promotion service (Japanese text only)