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MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation is an intermediate bank holding company based in New York City.It is a wholly owned subsidiary of MUFG Bank, a member of the Japanese Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group conglomerate. [4]
Some of the larger banks had or have opened offices in nearby countries such as China, the US, or the UK., but the number of these has declined since the 1990s. Examples of them include: Bank of Yokohama - the largest regional bank in Japan and the core arm of Concordia Financial Group. Hachijuni Bank in Nagano City. Bank of Kyoto in Kyoto.
The bank opened branches in London and New York in 1920. [6] By 1929, Mitsubishi Bank had only 3 offices outside of Japan and its colonies, less than Mitsui bank or Sumitomo Bank and much less than the Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Chōsen and Bank of Taiwan, for which foreign trade was part of a public-interest mandate under special legislation.
SMBC has been an early adopter of AI in its banking operation. It is the first Japanese bank to use IBM Watson since 2014 to support operators at its call center. [8] AmiVoice, a voice recognition solution provided by SMBC, transforms inquiries into text on a real-time basis as a speech recognition system, while IBM Watson gives customers responses taken from service manuals and Q&As, thereby ...
Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo, Japan, with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide; it is known as Nomura Securities International in the US, and Nomura International plc. in EMEA. It operates through five business divisions: retail ...
Mitsubishi Bank and the Bank of Tokyo merged in 1996 to form the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, which at that point was the world's largest bank in terms of total assets. [10] The Bank of Tokyo had historically focused on foreign exchange business since its foundation as the Yokohama Specie Bank in 1880, while Mitsubishi Bank had had a stronger focus on domestic corporate and retail banking.
The bank is often called Hamagin (浜銀) for short by the locals. It has 632 domestic offices and five overseas offices (Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok and New York). [3] It is a wholly owned subsidiary and the core arm of Concordia Financial Group, a Japanese bank holding company since 2016. [4]
The Joyo Bank, Ltd. (株式会社常陽銀行, Jōyō Ginkō Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese regional bank that is headquartered in Mito city, Ibaraki Prefecture. The bank is relatively large among Japanese regional lenders, and operates branches throughout the Kantō region .