He’s described as a buccaneering Japanese investor and risk-taking financier — and says he is a fan of US president Donald Trump. And now Makoto Inoue’s firm — ORIX Corp — is about to become the lender to a raft of Greek shipowners, signalling the radical shifts underway in ship finance.
ORIX chief executive Inoue says his firm is on the hunt to snap up more shipping loans from retreating European banks after a deal to buy $289m of debt from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
