Sojitz Finance (双日フィナンス)

Confidence Likely
Updated 2026-05-26
Review by 2026-09-22
Sources 4 Machine-translated Original (JA)
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This entry sits under trading-company-finance INDEX. Read it against Marubeni Financial Services (the closest mid-tier trading-house group-treasury peer) and Itochu Finance (another peer trading-house internal-treasury arm). For the mid-tier trading-house captive comparison, see Kanematsu Leasing (smaller mid-tier trading-house leasing). For the 5 -major-trading-house comparison baseline, see Mitsubishi Corporation Financial Services / Mitsui Bussan Financial Services / Sumitomo Corp Financial Management / Toyota Tsusho Finance. See banking index for the broader regulatory boundary.

1. Company overview

ItemNotes
Wiki roleSojitz Group’s inward-facing finance + typical example of a mid-tier trading-house finance function

Sojitz and bank affiliations

  • Former Nichimen: relationship with Sanwa Bank (now MUFG, Sanwa lineage)
  • Former Nissho Iwai: relationship with the former Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and former IBJ (now Mizuho FG (Mizuho FG))

Placement of Sojitz’s financial functions

LayerEntityRole
Outward-facing banks (main banking)MUFG / Mizuho FG (Mizuho FG) / SMFG in parallelCommercial banking and external financial services
Inward-facing / group financeSojitz Finance (this page)Group companies’ internal banking / CMS / internal factoring

2. Business segment map

SegmentContent
CMS (Cash Management Service)Settlement concentration and cash pooling for Sojitz Group companies
Bulk factoringPurchase of trade receivables / payment agency for group companies
Group financeShort-term / mid-term loans to group companies
FX / interest-rate risk-hedging intermediationDerivatives intermediation for group companies
Overseas remittance servicesOverseas remittance and collection for group companies
Trade-finance supportCredit support tied to transactions in automotive / aerospace industries / infrastructure & healthcare / metals, resources & recycling / chemicals / food & agribusiness / consumer industries / retail

Sojitz’s business structure and financial functions

Sojitz Finance supports supplier finance / overseas-currency hedging / cross-border remittance, etc. in these segments. Because it is a mid-tier trading house, the scale of its financial functions is smaller than the 5 major trading houses, but the feature set is similar.

Competitors / Peers

Trading houseScale layerInward-facing finance subsidiaryOutward-facing leasing arm
Mitsubishi Corporation5 majorMitsubishi Corporation Financial ServicesMitsubishi Hc Capital
Mitsui & Co.5 majorMitsui Bussan Financial ServicesJa Mitsui Leasing
Sumitomo Corporation5 majorSumitomo Corp Financial ManagementSMFL
Itochu5 majorItochu FinanceTokyo Century
Marubeni5 majorMarubeni Financial ServicesMizuho Leasing (strategic shareholder)
Toyota Tsusho5+1 / 7 major (Toyota lineage)Toyota Tsusho Financein-group captive
Sojitz7 major (mid-tier)Sojitz Finance (this page)no dedicated large subsidiary
Kanematsumid-tier(limited)Kanematsu Leasing (small captive)

4. Regulation / policy

  • Supervisor: FSA (related to money-lending / FX business)
  • Regulatory points:
    • Transfer-pricing taxation of intra-group financial transactions
    • Boundary between group factoring and the Installment Sales Act / Money Lending Business Act
    • Elimination of intercompany transactions in consolidated accounting
  • Recent policy points:

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[!info] Verification status confidence: tentative (based on public information 2026-05-24). Sojitz Finance is an unlisted subsidiary with limited external disclosure; its business scope / handling scale is on a speculative basis. For the latest information, refer to the list of affiliated companies in Sojitz’s securities report. Positioned as a typical image of a “mid-tier trading house’s internal finance subsidiary.” The parent trading-house page sojitz-corp.md has not been created → planned to be added later as backlog.

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