みずほ銀行 (Mizuho Bank)

Wiki route

This entry sits under megabanks INDEX (its domain route). Read it against MUFG Bank for peer / contrast (another 都市銀行 megabank operating company), and against the FSA for the supervisory / regulatory boundary. The group / parent view lives on Mizuho FG (Mizuho FG); the trust and securities siblings on Mizuho Trust Bank and Mizuho Securities.

TL;DR

Mizuho Bank, Ltd. is the commercial-banking core entity of Mizuho FG (Mizuho FG). On the FSA’s bank license list it is a licensed bank listed as “株式会社みずほ銀行” (city bank), with bank code 0001. It has a bank-license boundary separate from the parent company, the trust bank, the securities company, and the AM company.

1. License / group boundary

2. Operating model

• The main engine of the Mizuho group for deposits, lending, domestic/foreign exchange, settlement, and corporate finance, carrying the merger lineage of the former Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank, and Industrial Bank of Japan.
• The bank-license layer (this page) handles the branch / overseas network and the deposit-lending / settlement functions, while the Mizuho FG (Mizuho FG) page handles the consolidated / holding-company strategy.
• Combine with Mizuho Trust Bank / Mizuho Securities / Asset Management One to see the role division across “bank / trust / securities / asset management”.

3. Why a standalone page matters

Mizuho FG‘s listing, G-SIB status, and group strategy are a different unit of analysis from the bank’s standalone business-improvement orders, branch network, and deposit-lending / FX / corporate-settlement functions. Separating the bank operating company makes it possible to directly track the FSA registration list, the license under the Banking Act, settlement-infrastructure connections, and domestic and overseas locations.

Related

• megabanks INDEX
• mizuho-fg
• mizuho-trust-bank
• mizuho-securities
• asset-management-one
• FinWiki index

Sources

• FSA, “銀行免許一覧”, ginkou.xlsx (都市銀行; 株式会社みずほ銀行).
• Mizuho Bank, “会社概要”.
• Mizuho Bank, “会社情報”.