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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
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Type
Founded	June 6,1996
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Masayuki Oku : President
Industry	Financial Services
Employees	16,686 (as of September 30,2006)
Website	[1]

For other uses, see Smbc (disambiguation).

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC, Mitsui Sumitomo Ginkō, 三井住友銀行) is a Japanese bank based in Tokyo, Japan. It is a member of the Sumitomo Group and Mitsui Group.

Contents 1 History 2 Capitalization 3 Shareholders 4 See also 5 External links

• July, 1876 Mitsui Bank is established as a private bank. (Capital stock: ¥2 million)
• June, 1893 Mitsui Bank reorganizes itself as an unlimited partnership.
• November, 1895 Sumitomo Bank is established as a private enterprise.
• November, 1909 Mitsui Bank reorganizes into a limited company. (Capital stock: ¥20 million)
• March, 1912 Sumitomo Bank reorganizes into a limited company. (Capital stock: ¥15 million)
• December, 1936 The seven major banks of Hyogo Prefecture are merged into Kobe Bank.
• December, 1940 Dai Nihon Mujin is established.
• April, 1943 Mitsui Bank merges with Dai-Ichi Bank to form Teikoku Bank.
• August, 1944 Teikoku Bank merges with Jugo Bank.
• July, 1945 Sumitomo Bank merges with Hannan and Ikeda Jitsugyo Banks.

Kobe Bank begins trust business.

• April, 1948 Dai Nihon Mujin is renamed Nihon Mujin.
• October, 1948 Teikoku Bank is re-established by Dai-Ichi Bank's separation.

Sumitomo Bank is renamed Osaka Bank.

• May, 1949 Teikoku Bank's shares become listed on the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges.

Osaka Bank's shares become listed on the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges. (Listed on Sapporo Securities Exchange in April 1950 and Nagoya Stock Exchange in March 1989 thereafter.)

• October, 1951 Nihon Mujin is renamed Nihon Sogo Bank.
• December, 1952 Osaka Bank's name is restored to Sumitomo Bank.
• January, 1954 Teikoku Bank's name is restored to Mitsui Bank.
• April, 1960 Kobe Bank's trust division is transferred to Toyo Trust and Banking.
• April, 1965 Sumitomo Bank merges with Kawachi Bank.
• April, 1968 Mitsui Bank merges with Toto Bank.
• December, 1968 Nihon Sogo Bank converts to an ordinary bank and is renamed Taiyo Bank.
• October, 1973 Kobe Bank and Taiyo Bank merge to form Taiyo Kobe Bank.
• October, 1986 Sumitomo Bank merges with Heiwa Sogo Bank.
• January, 1989 Sumitomo Bank's shares become listed on London Stock Exchange.
• April, 1990 Mitsui Bank and Taiyo Kobe Bank merge to form Mitsui Taiyo Kobe Bank.
• April, 1992 Mitsui Taiyo Kobe Bank is renamed Sakura Bank.
• June, 1996 The Wakashio Bank, Ltd. is established, and starts operation in September.
• 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, and SMBC then becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of SMFG.

March, 2003 SMBC merges with Wakashio Bank (merged bank's name : Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation )

As of the year 2006, SMBC was the third largest bank in Japan and the eighth largest bank in the world.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (100%)

• Hiroaki Shukuzawa

• http://www.smbc.co.jp/