Why Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Stock Popped Today

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE: MUFG) stock is enjoying a bit of a relief rally Monday morning.

Shares of the Japanese financial holding company rose 2.7% through 11:25 a.m. ET on news that Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has determined the company violated client confidentiality rules and engaged in "improper conduct, including cases in which MUFG Bank tried to win underwriting business for [its] brokerage unit," according to The Japan Times today.

Strange as it may sound, this appears to be good news for Mitsubishi UFJ. Although some news outlets are saying that the FSA has "penalized" the bank holding company, none of them state an actual fine of any sort being imposed. Rather, the penalty appears (so far) to consist only of a slap on the wrist, a request for an explanation of how confidentiality was breached, and a plan to prevent it from happening again.

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