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Mizuho gives about 45,000 staff in Japan access to Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service

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Source: Taipei Times (Bloomberg)Also reported by ITPro

Mizuho Financial Group began giving about 45,000 employees in its main lending units in Japan access to Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service in the week of 27 June 2023, according to Bloomberg reporting. Uses under consideration included a single reference point for staff on the bank’s internal rules, processes and manuals, with the brokerage unit to follow the next month. The bank said it was writing guidelines on information management, intellectual property and ethics.

Why it matters

A Japanese megabank opened generative AI tools to its domestic banking staff in mid-2023, one of Japan’s first financial firms to do so.

When
27 Jun 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0134
Where
Japan
Who
Mizuho Financial Group, Microsoft, OpenAI

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Taipei Times (Bloomberg) and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2023-0134: “Mizuho gives about 45,000 staff in Japan access to Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service.” wheresthe.ai, 27 Jun 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/jp-mizuho-azure-openai-45000-staff-2023-06/ (source: Taipei Times (Bloomberg)).

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