- CEO
- Katsuya Kawashima
- Full Time Employees
- 5,548
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Banks - Regional
- Address
- Nihonbashi Muromachi Nomura Building Tokyo Japan 103-8303
- IPO Date
- Apr 28, 2006
- Business
- SBI Shinsei Bank, Limited (SKLKF) operates as a hybrid comprehensive financial group in Japan, providing retail banking, institutional finance, consumer finance, leasing, and markets services to individual, corporate, and institutional customers. The bank offers core products and services including yen and foreign currency deposits, structured deposits, PowerFlex savings accounts with cash-back ATM fees and extended hours, home mortgages, housing and unsecured loans under brands such as Lake, investment trusts, credit cards, shopping credit, payment services, real estate and project finance, acquisition finance with M&A support and syndicated loans, private equity investments, business succession finance, leasing through subsidiaries like Showa Leasing, and market solutions for foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives; it primarily serves Japanese retail clients, small and medium-sized enterprises, and institutional investors with operations centered in Japan and select international alliances. Founded in December 1952 as the successor to Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan and headquartered at Nihonbashi Muromachi Nomura Building in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, the bank functions as a consolidated subsidiary of SBI Holdings, with key subsidiaries encompassing APLUS for consumer finance, Showa Leasing, and others like Diamond Asset Finance. Recent developments include full repayment of public funds in July 2025 totaling approximately 230 billion yen, the launch of SBI Hyper Yokin settlement account in collaboration with SBI Securities in September 2025, a planned initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime market targeting up to 400 billion yen in December 2025 with underwriters such as Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, attracting investments from Qatar's sovereign wealth fund and KKR, and prior privatization by SBI Holdings in 2023 following its 2021 acquisition of control.