TOKYO -- Signs are emerging that Japan's regional banks are starting to address their chronic profitability problems with a belated shift to cloud infrastructure and other cutting-edge solutions.
Negative interest rates and shareholders force managers to adopt new ways

Japan's regional lenders are gaining a sense of urgency and becoming more IT literate, trends investors appear to be applauding. (Source photos by Ken Kobayashi and Kaisuke Ota)
TOKYO -- Signs are emerging that Japan's regional banks are starting to address their chronic profitability problems with a belated shift to cloud infrastructure and other cutting-edge solutions.