Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (MUTB)

Wiki route

This entry sits under trust-banks INDEX (its domain route). Read it against Smtb and Mizuho Trust Bank for peer / contrast (the other megabank-group trust banks), and against the FSA plus banking for the supervisory / system boundary. The commercial-bank sibling in the same group is MUFG Bank.

TL;DR

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (三菱UFJ信託銀行, MUTB) is the core trust-bank operating company of MUFG. It is a “trust-business-concurrent financial institution” that, in addition to a bank license under the Banking Act, holds a license to concurrently conduct trust business under the Concurrent Operation Act (the Act on Concurrent Operation of Trust Business by Financial Institutions), conducting banking business such as deposits and lending together with trust assets, pensions, real estate, transfer agency, and entrusted-asset administration as an integrated whole. It is a separate banking legal entity from the commercial bank MUFG Bank, and is distinguished from the megabank entity itself by the combination of a bank license + concurrent trust operation.

1. License / group boundary

2. Operating model

As a trust-business-concurrent financial institution, MUTB carries out the following functions:

• Asset administration / entrusted assets: It handles asset administration and securities administration for institutional investors and pension funds, connecting with the group’s asset-administration platform Master Trust Bank.
• Pension trusts, real estate, transfer agency: Defined-benefit / defined-contribution pension trusts, real-estate trusts, and transfer-agency business as a shareholder-registry administrator.
• Securitization / liquidation: Acting as trustee for securitization schemes using trusts of monetary claims and real estate.

Whereas MUFG Bank handles deposits / lending, foreign exchange, and the commercial-banking network, MUTB handles trusts, entrusted assets, real estate, pensions, and transfer agency — a division of functions. Supervision is conducted by Financial Services Agency (FSA) on both the banking and trust sides.

3. Why this page matters

• An anchor that fixes the license difference between a commercial bank (ordinary bank) and a trust-business-concurrent financial institution. In analyses of stablecoins / security tokens / trust beneficiary rights / asset administration, this difference becomes the point at issue.
• A base point when linking to Master Trust Bank or Custody Bank of Japan (CBJ).
• Kept as an independent page that is easy to link from trust-scheme topics such as Progmat or tokenized deposits.

Related

• trust-banks INDEX
• MUFG
• MUFG Bank
• Master Trust Bank
• FSA
• Progmat
• FinWiki index

Sources

• FSA: bank license list (ginkou.xlsx).
• Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking: 会社概要 / 会社情報.