Korea Development Bank Tokyo Branch
ConfidenceLikelyUpdated2026-07-30Review by2026-11-21Sources2Machine-translatedOriginal (JA)
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This entry sits under foreign-financial-institutions INDEX. Read it against Woori Bank Tokyo for peer / contrast context and banking index for the broader system / regulatory boundary.
TL;DR
Korea Development Bank Tokyo Branch is the Japan branch of Korea Development Bank listed in the FSA foreign bank branch list. As a Korean policy-bank / development-bank corridor, it handles project finance, shipping / aircraft finance, syndicated loans, trade finance, and cross-border corporate finance.
1. License / branch boundary
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (fsa.go.jp, kdb.co.kr). 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 | Korea Development Bank |
| Legal / branch name | Korea Development Bank Tokyo Branch |
| License route | Banking Act foreign bank branch; FSA bank license list |
| Home jurisdiction | Republic of Korea |
| Parent / group | Korea Development Bank |
| Wiki role | Korea policy-bank / development-bank Japan branch anchor |
2. Operating model
KDB’s Tokyo branch page states that the branch was opened in 1991 after a Tokyo office that began in 1969. It describes the branch as important to KDB’s global business, providing project finance, ship and aircraft finance, syndicated loans, trade finance, and customized solutions to Korean companies in Japan, Japanese companies, and multinationals.
The page should therefore sit partly in foreign-bank branch analysis and partly in policy-finance adjacency.
3. Why this page matters
- Adds a Korean development-bank branch, not just private commercial banks.
- Supports public-credit / cross-border industrial-finance comparisons with jbic, dbj, and INDEX.
- Completes the Korean P1 branch set with commercial-bank peers.
Related
- woori-bank-japan
- hana-bank-japan
- industrial-bank-of-korea-japan
- kb-kookmin-bank-japan
- jbic
- dbj
- foreign-bank-japan-retreat
Sources
- FSA: bank license list, foreign bank branches, as of 2026-05-13.
- Korea Development Bank: Tokyo branch profile.
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