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The Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd.
This is a list of banks in Japan. Central Bank * Bank of Japan Governmental institutions Existing National Institutions * Development Bank of Japan, or DBJ * Japan Finance Corporation, or JFC ** Japan Bank for International Cooperation, or JBIC , the internal division of Japan Finance Corporation. * Okinawa Development Finance Corporation * Shoko Chukin Bank * Japan Housing Finance Agency Postal Savings Bank *Japan Post Bank, former Japan Post's banking division and subsidiary of the successor Japan Post Holding. Regional Municipalities', Authorities' Mutual Corporation * Japan Finance Organization for Municipalities , restructured to Japan Finance Organization for Municipalities. Defunct National Institutions * Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Finance Corporation , merged to Japan Finance Corporation. * Japan Finance Corporation for Small and Medium Enterprise , merged to Japan Finance Corporation. * National Life Finance Corporation , merged to Japan Finance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bank
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because banks play an important role in financial stability and the economy of a country, most jurisdictions exercise a high degree of regulation over banks. Most countries have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking, under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, the Basel Accords. Banking in its modern sense evolved in the fourteenth century in the prosperous cities of Renaissance Italy but in many ways functioned as a continuation of ideas and concepts of credit and lending that had their roots in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
