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Signs and Logos of the Four Major Banks in Toyosu

Signs and logos of the four major banks in Toyosu (Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Resona Bank).=May 12,2026,Tokyo

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Signs and Logos of the Four Major Banks in Toyosu

Signs and logos of the four major banks in Toyosu (Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Resona Bank).=May 12,2026,Tokyo

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Signs and Logos of the Four Major Banks in Toyosu

Signs and logos of the four major banks in Toyosu (Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Resona Bank).=June 18,2026,Tokyo

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Signs and Logos of the Four Major Banks in Toyosu

Signs and logos of the four major banks in Toyosu (Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Resona Bank).=June 18,2026,Tokyo

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Signs and Logos of the Four Major Banks in Toyosu

Signs and logos of the four major banks in Toyosu (Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Resona Bank).=June 18,2026,Tokyo

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Signs and logos of four banks

Signs and logos of Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Resona Bank.=May 12,2026,Tokyo

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Signs and logos of four banks

Signs and logos of Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Resona Bank.=May 12,2026,Tokyo

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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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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking President Fukutome

Akihiro Fukutome gives an interview in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, prior to assuming the post of president at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. on April 1.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking President Fukutome

Akihiro Fukutome gives an interview in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, prior to assuming the post of president at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. on April 1.

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Tsunekage to chair board of Mitsui-Sumitomo holding company

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Hitoshi Tsunekage, who will chair the board of the new Mitsui-Sumitomo Trust holding company in April 2011.

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Hyogo Pref., megabank allied for industrial promotion

KOBE, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Co. President Takeshi Kunibe (L) and Hyogo Governor Toshizo Ido display their agreement on a bilateral partnership designed to promote the local business community, including tourism, at the Hyogo prefectural government office in Kobe, western Japan, on July 23, 2014.

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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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Ex-SMBC director Kimoto

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Yasuyuki Kimoto, a former senior managing director of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Olympus Corp. is making final arrangements to appoint Kimoto as its chairman as part of efforts to turn around the company's management following a scandal in which the Olympus covered up losses, company sources said on Feb. 22, 2012.

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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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Kunibe to be appointed Sumitomo Mitsui Banking president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeshi Kunibe, senior managing director of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. The company is considering appointing Kunibe to succeed President Masayuki Oku, company sources said Dec. 30, 2010.

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SMFG lists on New York Stock Exchange

NEW YORK, United States - Teisuke Kitayama (C in front), president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 1, 2010. SMFG listed its American Depository Receipts on the NYSE on the same day, becoming the last of Japan's three biggest banking groups to trade on the NYSE, following Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.

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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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SMFG to buy Nikko Cordial, bulk of Nikko Citigroup for 545 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on May 1 after announcing they have reached an agreement that SMFG will acquire Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. and the bulk of Nikko Citigroup Ltd. for 545 billion yen. (From L) Nikko Cordial Securities President Eiji Watanabe, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Masayuki Oku, SMFG President Teisuke Kitayama, Citigroup Vice Chairman Stephen Volk, and Nikko Citi Holdings Inc. Chairman and President Douglas Peterson.

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Banks start selling all types of insurance in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. opens a corner for insurance products at its branch in Tokyo's Shibuya district on Dec. 22 as banks were allowed the same day to commence selling all types of insurance policies.

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SMBC Deputy President Nakano to become Kansai business group head

OSAKA, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Deputy President Kenjiro Nakano (in file photo) is expected to become one of the two co-chairmen of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives in 2008, sources said on Dec. 8. Nakano, 60, will replace Atsushi Kojima, 72, chairman of Ganko Food Service Co., while the group's other co-chairman, Norihiko Saito, 61, executive vice president of Kansai Electric Power Co., will remain in office, the sources said

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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 to be banned from selling derivatives

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Oku (C), chairman of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on April 27 after the Financial Services Agency ordered Sumitomo Mitsui to stop sales of financial derivatives for six months from May 15.

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Planning firm for postal privatization selects president, directors

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka addresses an inaugural meeting of a company to prepare for Japan's postal privatization in 2007 held at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 20. The meeting chose former Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa as its president. Takenaka said, ''Postal privatization will have the historic meaning of creating Japan's new market economy for the 21st century.''

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Planning firm for postal privatization selects president, directors

TOKYO, Japan - A company to prepare for Japan's postal privatization in 2007 held its inaugural meeting at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 20. The meeting named former Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa as its president.

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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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Ex-top banker Nishikawa to head key firm for postal system privatization

TOKYO, Japan - Former Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa speaks at a press conference at the internal affairs and communications ministry on Nov. 11 after being named to head a holding firm which will be founded in October 2007 for the privatization of Japan's postal system.

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Ex-top banker Nishikawa to head key firm for postal system privatization

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka (L), minister of internal affairs and communications, and former Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa smile at a question from one of reporters during a press conference on Nov. 11. The government has picked Nishikawa as president of a holding firm to be founded in October 2007 for the privatization of Japan's postal system.

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Ex-top banker Nishikawa to head key firm for postal system privatization

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa, who was picked by the government on Nov. 11 as president of a holding firm to be founded in October 2007 for the privatization of Japan's postal system. Nishikawa accepted the post in a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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(2)Kitayama to succeed Nishikawa as SMFG president

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Deputy President Masayuki Oku (L), who will promoted to the presidency, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 19 flanked by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. Deputy President Teisuke Kitayama (R), who was named to succeed Yoshifumi Nishikawa as president. The top management reshuffle will take effect on June 29, the financial group said.

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(2)Sumitomo Mitsui, Daiwa Securities to launch merger talks

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 10 shows the head office of Daiwa Securities Group Inc. in Tokyo. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. and Daiwa Securities Group, the holding companies of Japan's third-largest banking group and second-largest brokerage group, will soon launch merger talks to become a financial conglomerate, sources close to the talks said the same day.

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(1)Sumitomo Mitsui, Daiwa Securities to launch merger talks

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 10 shows the head office of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. in Tokyo. SMFG and Daiwa Securities Group Inc., the holding companies of Japan's third-largest banking group and second-largest brokerage group, will soon launch merger talks to become a financial conglomerate, sources close to the talks said the same day.

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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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Daiei board decides not to seek IRCJ support

TOKYO, Japan - Kunio Takagi, president of struggling retailer Daiei Inc., leaves by car from the head office of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., one of its three major creditor banks, in Tokyo on Oct. 11. Earlier in the day Daiei decided at an extraordinary board meeting that it would not seek help from the state-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, brushing aside the banks' repeated demand that Daiei ask for IRCJ's help.

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Sumitomo Mitsui to continue pushing for merger with UFJ

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Aug. 25. Nishikawa said the banking group will continue to press ahead with a proposed merger with smaller ailing rival UFJ Holdings Inc.

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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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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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4 Sumitomo Mitsui firms to enhance insurance alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and three insurers with ties to the Sumitomo Mitsui group said Nov. 22, 2001 they will bolster ties to enhance their ability to develop innovative insurance policies and boost marketing cooperation amid the harsh business environment. Seated at a Tokyo news conference are (From L to R) Mitsui Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Hiroshi Nishimura, Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. President Shinichi Yokoyama, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Chairman Takeo Iguchi and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking to fall into red

TOKYO, Nov. 21 Kyodo - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) speaks at a media briefing Nov. 21, 2001. He said SMBC will likely plunge into the red for the fiscal year to next March 31 as it will sharply raise the amount of loan-loss charges to accelerate its efforts to dispose of bad loans.

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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.