Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
株式会社三井住友銀行

Company type	Private (Subsidiary)
Industry	Financial services
Predecessor	The Wakashio Bank, Ltd. (Renamed on April 1, 2001)
Founded	June 6, 1996 (The Sakura Bank, Ltd.: July, 1876) (The Sumitomo Bank, Ltd.: November, 1895)
Headquarters	Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo , Japan
Number of locations	444 branches (as of September 30, 2009)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Koichi Miyata (Chairman) Makoto Takashima (President)
Services	Personal banking Corporate banking Investment banking
Revenue	¥2,108,724 million (non-consolidated, March 2011)
Operating income	¥218,075 million (non-consolidated, March 2011)
Net income	¥421,180 million (non-consolidated, March 2011)
Total assets	¥115,484,907 million (non-consolidated, as of March 31, 2011)
Total equity	¥5,559,293 million (non-consolidated, as of March 31, 2011)
Number of employees	22,524 (as of March 31, 2011)
Parent	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
Subsidiaries	Nikko Cordial Securities Orix Credit Promise
Website	Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

SMBC Nihonbashi Branch

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC; 株式会社三井住友銀行, Kabushikigaisha mitsui sumitomo ginkō) is a Japanese multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. SMBC is the second largest bank in Japan by assets.

History

SMBC was formed by the merger of The Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank in April 2001. Sumitomo Bank was a major Japanese bank founded in 1895; Sakura Bank was a descendant of Mitsui Bank, another major Japanese bank founded in 1876, but with operations dating back to 1683, when the Tokugawa Shogunate granted Mitsui Takatoshi permission to act as a money changer.

• April 2001: Sakura Bank and Sumitomo Bank merge to form Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. (Capital stock: ¥1,276,7 billion)
• December 2002: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) establishes a holding company named Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) through a share transfer, SMBC becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of SMFG.
• March 2003: Wakashio Bank (established June 1996) merges with SMBC.
• July 2008: Sumitomo Mitsui buys a 2.1 per cent stake in Barclays Bank for £500m.
• April 2008: A group of criminal hackers including Hugh Rodley, security insider Kevin O'Donoghue and Soho sex shop owner David Nash are found guilty of an attempted high-tech robbery of £229m from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation's London branch in September 2004. Henchmen Jan Van Osselaer and Gilles Poelvoorde were also found guilty of conspiracy to steal. The plot was discovered by Sumitomo Mitsui staff, and no money was stolen. Another accused, Bernard Davies, died before trial.
• March 2015, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation bought HKD $6.58-billion (JPY 105-billion, USD $849-million) of new Bank of East Asia shares, raising SMBC's stake in the Hong Kong lender to 17.5% from 9.7%.

Structure

The Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation is organised in the following structure:

• Consumer Banking Unit
• Middle Market Unit
• Corporate Banking Unit
• Investment Banking Unit
• International Banking Unit
• Treasury Unit
• Compliance Unit
• Corporate Staff Unit

Shareholders

• Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (100%)

See also

• Hiroaki Shukuzawa
• Loans in Japan
• SMBC Aviation Capital

External links

• http://www.smbc.co.jp/global/