Small and Medium Enterprise Bank Tokyo Branch
ConfidenceLikelyUpdated2026-07-30Review by2026-11-21Sources3Machine-translatedOriginal (JA)
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This entry sits under foreign-financial-institutions INDEX. Read it with banking index for adjacent context and JapanFG index for the broader system boundary.
##TL;DR
Small and Medium Enterprise Bank Tokyo Branch is a bank branch in Japan of Industrial Bank of Korea / IBK, which is listed on the Financial Services Agency’s list of foreign bank branches. As the Japan branch of the Korean SME finance bank, we serve as a point of contact for Korean companies, Japanese companies, and the SME finance network.
1. License / branch boundary
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (fsa.go.jp, global.ibk.co.kr, zenginkyo.or.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| FSA listed name | SME Bank |
| Legal / branch name | Industrial Bank of Korea Tokyo Branch |
| License route | Banking Act foreign bank branch; FSA bank license list |
| Home jurisdiction | Republic of Korea |
| Parent / group | Industrial Bank of Korea |
| Wiki roles | Korea SME-finance branch anchor in Japan |
2. Operating model
The FSA list confirms the Tokyo branch as a foreign-bank branch, and JBA’s bank database provides the Japan banking-code and public contact route. IBK’s global site is the parent-bank official route. The branch is useful for Korea-Japan SME, remittance, trade, and corporate banking context, rather than broad Japanese retail-bank coverage.
For detailed current product or disclosure analysis, prefer FSA/JBA plus IBK branch disclosure where available.
3. Why this page matters
- Adds the SME-finance Korean bank branch missing from the P1 list.
- Provides a peer to korea-development-bank-japan for Korea policy / semi-policy finance in Japan.
- Helps distinguish Korean branch banks from Japan-incorporated Korean-owned sbj-bank.
Related
- woori-bank-japan
- hana-bank-japan
- korea-development-bank-japan
- kb-kookmin-bank-japan
- sbj-bank
- foreign-bank-japan-retreat
Sources
- FSA: bank license list, foreign bank branches, as of 2026-05-13.
- Industrial Bank of Korea: global official site.
- Japanese Bankers Association: Industrial Bank of Korea database entry.
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