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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group President Change Press Conference

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group President Transition Press Conference. Photo shows from left: Toru Takakura, President of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group; Kazuya Oyama, incoming President; Manatomo Yoneyama, incoming President of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank; Masakatsu Sato, incoming Chairman.=December 23,2025,Tokyo

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group President Change Press Conference

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group President Transition Press Conference. Photo shows From left, Kazuya Oyama, incoming President; Manatomo Yoneyama, incoming President of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.=December 23,2025,Tokyo

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group President Change Press Conference

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group President Transition Press Conference. Photo shows from left: Toru Takakura, President of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group; Kazuya Oyama, incoming President; Manatomo Yoneyama, incoming President of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank; Masakatsu Sato, incoming Chairman.=December 23,2025,Tokyo

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New Company: Docomo SMTB Net Bank Joint Press Conference by Three Companies

New Company Docomo SMTB Net Bank: Joint Press Conference by Three Companies. Photo shows, from left: Yoshiaki Maeda, President and Representative Director of NTT Docomo; Noriaki Maruyama, President and Representative Director of Sumishin SBI Net Bank; Kazuya Oyama, President and Representative Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.=December 19,2025,Tokyo

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New Company: Docomo SMTB Net Bank Joint Press Conference by Three Companies

New Company Docomo SMTB Net Bank: Joint Press Conference by Three Companies. Photo shows, from left: Yoshiaki Maeda, President and Representative Director of NTT Docomo; Noriaki Maruyama, President and Representative Director of Sumishin SBI Net Bank; Kazuya Oyama, President and Representative Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.=December 19,2025,Tokyo

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New Company: Docomo SMTB Net Bank Joint Press Conference by Three Companies

New Company Docomo SMTB Net Bank: Joint Press Conference by Three Companies. Photo shows, from left: Yoshiaki Maeda, President and Representative Director of NTT Docomo; Noriaki Maruyama, President and Representative Director of Sumishin SBI Net Bank; Kazuya Oyama, President and Representative Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.=December 19,2025,Tokyo

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New Company: Docomo SMTB Net Bank Joint Press Conference by Three Companies

New Company Docomo SMTB Net Bank: Joint Press Conference by Three Companies. Photo shows, from left: Yoshiaki Maeda, President and Representative Director of NTT Docomo; Noriaki Maruyama, President and Representative Director of Sumishin SBI Net Bank; Kazuya Oyama, President and Representative Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.=December 19,2025,Tokyo

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank signage and logo

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank signage and logo=June 6,2025,Japan

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank signage and logo

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank signage and logo=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank signage and logo

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank signage and logo=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Bank signage and logos

Bank signage and logos. From the front: Resona Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.=Date:January 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Bank signage and logos

Bank signage and logos. From the front: Resona Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.=Date:January 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Trust bank promotes tax-free trust for educational funds

TOKYO, Japan - A worker at Mitsui Sumitomo Trust Bank shows a set of brochures to promote a tax-exempt trust fund for monetary gifts limited to educational expenses at its head office in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2014, amid growing demand for such trusts ahead of an increase in the inheritance tax scheduled for January 2015.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial announces earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Miyata, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., announces the group's earnings for financial 2012 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on May 15, 2013.

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NEC to raise 130 bil. yen from banks

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuhiro Endo, president of NEC Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 26, 2013. NEC said the same day it will raise a total of 130 billion yen from banks including Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and the Development Bank of Japan to improve its financial standing.

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Megabank personnel shake-up

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Senior Managing Director Takeshi Kunibe (L) and Koichi Miyata, another senior managing director of the major Japanese bank. Kunibe will succeed Masayuki Oku as president of SMBC, while Miyata will replace Teisuke Kitayama as president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., SMBC's holding company, on April 1, 2011, the two firms said Jan. 28, 2011.

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SMFG's Miyata to be promoted to president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Koichi Miyata, senior managing director of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. The bank holding company is considering appointing Miyata to succeed President Teisuke Kitayama, who is likely to retire, company sources said Dec. 30, 2010.

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Sumitomo Trust-Chuo Mitsui merger good chance to show presence

TOKYO, Japan - Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Tanabe speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News on the merger of his bank and Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. A giant trust banking group is to be created through the management integration of the two trust banks in April 2011.

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Sumitomo Trust-Chuo Mitsui merger to reinforce Asian operations

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust President Hitoshi Tsunekage speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News on the merger of his bank and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. A giant trust banking group is to be created through the management integration of the two trust banks in April 2011.

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Sumitomo Trust, Chuo Mitsui to merge into Japan's top trust bank

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Hitoshi Tsunekage (L) and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Tanabe shake hands at a press conference in a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 6, 2009, during which they announced a management integration plan for April 2011 that will create Japan's largest trust bank.

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New Nikko Cordial kicks off operations as Sumitomo Mitsui unit

TOKYO, Japan - Eiji Watanabe (2nd from L), president of Nikko Cordial Securities, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Masayuki Oku (2nd from R) and other officials shake hands in front of the new logo of Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. at its headquarters in the Kabutocho financial district in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2009. The company began operations the same day as a wholly owned unit of SMBC after the completion of the bank's acquisition of the retail brokerage house from Citigroup Inc. of the United States.

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Sumitomo Trust's Director Tsunekage to replace ailing president

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tsunekakage (R), managing executive officer of Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., speaks at a news conference at the Bank of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo on Nov. 26 after being nominated as successor to President Yutaka Morita, who is stepping down for health reasons. Chairman Atsushi Takahashi (L) will stay on in his current post.

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Sumitomo Mitsui, S. Korea's Kookmin sign tie-up deal

SEOUL, South Korea - Masayuki Oku (L), president of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., and Kang Chung Won, president of South Korea's Kookmin Bank, shake hands in Seoul on March 12 after signing a tie-up accord.

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Sumitomo Mitsui's 1st-half group net profit dives 37.9%

TOKYO, Japan - Teisuke Kitayama, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., speaks about the company's earnings report for the first-half of fiscal 2006 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Nov. 22.

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SMBC to step up online banking security with new password system

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will step up computer security efforts for customers of its Internet banking by introducing a new system that automatically changes a password, which can be used only once, every minute, the bank said on Jan. 12. The new ''One-time Password'' system, to be introduced next month, will provide applicants from the bank's 6 million online customers with a device (in photo) incorporating software to automatically change six-digit passwords for them.

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Sumitomo Trust, SBI Holdings to create Net bank

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Yutaka Morita (L) and Yoshitaka Kitao, leader of SBI Holdings Inc., a venture capital firm of the Softbank Corp. group, shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 25 after announcing their agreement to create an Internet bank.

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(2)3 new Japanese banknotes debut

TOKYO, Japan - A bank clerk hands over newly designed banknotes to a customer at the head office of the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking in Tokyo on Nov. 1 as the banknotes went into circulation the same day.

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SMBC adds extra consulting hours for individual customers

OSAKA, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) on March 15 began consulting services for individual customers who find it difficult to visit the bank's outlets during regular business hours on weekdays, at six of its main outlets. Photo shows a booth for the new services at Osaka's Umeda branch, where the services will be available from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends and holidays.

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Sumitomo Mitsui to sell preferred shares to Goldman

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. speaks at a press conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 15 about a plan to sell preferred shares to U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

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SMBC voices readiness to recapitalize by end of FY 2002

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 30. Nishikawa expressed his readiness to expand his bank's capital base by the March 31, 2003 end of the current fiscal year.

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Top bankers criticize Takenaka's bank policy

TOKYO, Japan - The heads of Japan's four major banking groups criticize Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka's bank policy in Diet testimony Dec. 3. The House of Councillors Financial Affairs Committee summoned as unsworn witnesses (from R to L) Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Holdings Inc., Shigemitsu Miki, president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., Masashi Teranishi, president of UFJ Bank, and Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.

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SMBC midyear net profit jumps 61.3%

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) President Yoshifumi Nishikawa announces in Tokyo on Nov. 25 that the bank's group net profit in the first half of fiscal 2002 rose 61.3% from a year earlier, improving sharply from a 68.1% drop the previous midyear and a 463.89 billion yen full-year loss posted in fiscal 2001.

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Top bankers call for careful approach in corporate revival

TOKYO, Nov. 15 Kyodo - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (standing) testifies to the House of Representatives Financial Affairs Committee in the Diet in Tokyo on Nov. 15. Mizuho Holdings Inc. President Terunobu Maeda sits at Nishikawa's left and UFJ Bank President Masashi Teranishi at Nishikawa's right. At right is Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Shigemitsu Miki.

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Sumitomo Mitsui to set up holding firm early Dec.

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., announces at a press conference at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on July 30 that Sumitomo Mitsui Banking will set up a financial holding company in early December and place itself and three affiliates under the company's umbrella.

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Gunman attacks cash vehicle in Osaka, snatches 5 mil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Police examine a cash vehicle (foreground) from which a gunman armed with a revolver snatched 5 million yen near a branch of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. in Osaka on Oct. 5. The man attacked the cash vehicle shortly after it arrived at the bank branch's rear entrance.

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Former Sumitomo Bank President Ibe dies at 92

OSAKA, Japan - File photo shows Kyonosuke Ibe, a former president of Sumitomo Bank, a predecessor to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., who died April 16 at 92. Ibe was known for his role in arranging the 1976 absorption of financially troubled trading house Ataka Corp. by C. Ito & Co., now Itochu Corp., and bailing out ailing automaker Toyo Kogyo Co., now Mazda Motor Corp., in the 1970s.

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(1)New banks, nonlife insurers kick off operations

TOKYO, Japan - Hideo Ogasawara, president of UFJ Holding Inc., a holding firm of Sanwa Bank, Tokai Bank and Toyo Trust & Banking Co., speaks at the company's opening ceremony in Tokyo on April 2. Three new megabank groups -- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., formed by the merger of Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., a merged body of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Co. and Nippon Trust Bank, as well as UFJ Holdings Inc. -- began operations the same day.

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Financial Services Agency OKs Sumitomo-Sakura merger

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Bank President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) and Sakura Bank President Akishige Okada meet the press at the Financial Services Agency in Tokyo Dec. 26 after the agency approved a merger of the two lenders. The major Japanese commercial banks plan to combine as the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. in April.

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Sumitomo, Sakura to move up merger by one year

TOKYO, Japan - Akishige Okada (L), president of Sakura Bank, and Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Bank, shake hands at a news conference April 21 after announcing an agreement to move up the date of their banks' planned merger by one year to April 1 next year. The move is aimed to stay competitive amid a rush of consolidation and reorganization in Japan's banking industry.

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Sumitomo Trust, Daiwa Bank to set up new bank

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Takahashi (L), president of Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., and Takashi Kaiho, president of Daiwa Bank, shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 9 after announcing the two banks will jointly establish around next October a new trust bank that will provide back-office services for trust assets from institutional investors.

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Sumitomo, Sakura banks to merge

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank, two of Japan's largest commercial banks, announce Oct. 14 a basic agreement to integrate their businesses by April 2002 to create the world's second largest bank. Photo shows Sumitomo Bank President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) and Sakura Bank President Akishige Okada shaking hands just before a press conference at a Tokyo hotel.

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Sumitomo, Sakura in tie-up talks

OSAKA, Japan - A television station crew tries to interview a Sumitomo Bank employee on the morning of Oct. 14 following reports that the bank is in talks with Sakura Bank to form a wide-ranging business alliance.

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Sakura Bank employees report to work as usual

TOKYO, Japan - Sakura Bank employees report to work as usual on the morning of Oct. 14, the day news broke out that the bank is in talks with Sumitomo Bank to form a broad-based business tie-up.

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Sakura Bank head office

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the head office in Tokyo of Sakura Bank, which is in talks with Sumitomo Bank to form a broad-based alliance.

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Sumitomo Bank head office

OSAKA, Japan - File photo shows the head office of Sumitomo Bank, which is in talks with Sakura Bank to form a broad-based alliance.

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LTCB president answers questions in lower house

Katsunobu Ohnogi (L), president of troubled Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), gives unsworn testimony at a committee meeting on financial stabilization in the House of Representatives on Aug. 31. The panel discussed a government plan to inject public funds into LTCB to strengthen its capital base and facilitate its merger talks with Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co. Three other unsworn witnesses from other companies at the back of Ohnogi were also questioned.

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E-money experiments starts

Commercial banks and credit card companies in Japan will begin an experiment Thursday July 16 to introduce electric money, or ''e-money'' in one of Tokyo's busiest shopping areas in Shibuya. A 46-company consortium led by Visa International and Sumitomo Bank plans to issue 130,000 cards for use at some 700 shops. The photo shows a mother being advised how to use ''e-money'' in ademonstration at an ice cream shop in Shibuya on Wednesday July 15.

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LTCB-Sumitomo Trust merger planning

Katsunobu Onogi (R-center), president of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, meets the press at the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on June 26 after an announcement that his bank has agreed to start talks on a merger with Sumitomo Trust and Banking. The LTCB has long been plagued with massive nonperforming loans.

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Egypt issues 500 million USD Samurai bonds on Japanese market

STORY: Egypt issues 500 million USD Samurai bonds on Japanese market DATELINE: March 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the headquarters of Finance Ministry in Cairo 2. a shot of the logo of the ministry 3. various of Egypt's Finance Minister Mohamed Maait speaking 4. various of the headquarters of Finance Ministry 5. various of the Central Bank of Egypt STORYLINE: Egypt's Finance Ministry announced on Thursday that the country has issued 60 billion yen (about 500 million U.S. dollars) in five-year Samurai bonds on the Japanese market. Therefore, Egypt became the first country in the Middle East to issue international bonds denominated in Japanese yen on the Japanese market, the ministry said. It is Egypt's first international offering since it has devalued its currency by 14 percent against the dollar on Monday. The Finance Ministry made the issuance through a credit guarantee from the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and the coverage of Nippon Export

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THE VOICE OF TOKYO

Hato Bus, foreigner, English announcement, bus guide, sightseeing, Tokyo Tower, sightseeing bus, Imperial Palace, National Stadium, National Diet, Asakusa, Kaminarimon, kimono=Date:April, 1974, Place:Tokyo,JAPAN (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)