Nobuya Kawasaki

Nobuya Kawasaki was appointed Chief Executive for Asia Pacific of MUFG Bank, Ltd on 1 April 2025. He is responsible for overseeing the safety and soundness of the bank’s operations across 18 markets in the region as well as business promotion led by the Global Corporates, Japanese Corporates and Commercial Banking business groups. He is based in Singapore. 

A seasoned banker with close to three decades of M&A and corporate finance experience, this is his second overseas appointment in Singapore. During his first posting from 2013 to 2020, he was involved with MUFG’s strategic investments in Asia, specifically with the Security Bank in the Philippines in 2016 and Indonesia’s Bank Danamon in 2017. 

Prior to his current appointment, he was Deputy Group Head of the Global Commercial Banking Business Group, where he was responsible for promoting collaborations among MUFG and its invested financial institutions especially in Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines and in Indonesia. In addition, he led with some of the bank’s other inorganic strategic investments in the fintech sector that included True Money in Thailand and GCash in the Philippines. 

Mr. Kawasaki joined The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, Ltd. in 1997. He was previously with the M&A division of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, one of the major subsidiaries of MUFG, for seven years where he oversaw M&A advisory as a Managing Director. Mr. Kawasaki is a Commissioner on Bank Danamon’s Board of Commissioner, a position he held since March 2023, and a Board member of True Money, GCash and Akulaku in Indonesia. He graduated from Keio University with a Bachelor of Engineering in 1995 and a Master of Science in Engineering in 1997.