OREANDA-NEWS. The Bank's Board of Directors approved dividend payments from retained earnings for the third quarter of FY2015 at the Board of Directors Meeting held today.

The Bank will pay a dividend of 5 yen per share to common shareholders, an increase of 1 yen per share from the first and second quarter dividend payments. This reflects the steady progress of consolidated net  income for the first nine months of FY2015 (35.1 billion yen) towards the full-year forecast of 43 billion yen. No changes will be made to the annual dividend forecast of 18.4 yen for FY2015.