Japan · Financial institution
The Chiba Bank, Ltd.
Legal name in the LEI record株式会社 千葉銀行
The Chiba Bank, Ltd. is a Japanese regional bank incorporated as a kabushiki kaisha, with its head office in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. It was established in March 1943. Its shares are listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It provides deposit, lending, foreign exchange and investment services to individuals and businesses, mainly in Chiba Prefecture and the Tokyo area. It has overseas branches in New York, Hong Kong, London and Singapore. In March 2026 it agreed with The Chiba Kogyo Bank, Ltd. to form a joint holding company, Chiba Financial Group, Inc., planned for 1 April 2027.
Licences and registrations
Held by the legal entity, not by this BIC
This BIC is mapped to LEI FGJPAKKCTZVSKZXNBS63 (株式会社 千葉銀行) in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. The legal entity’s page is The Chiba Bank, LTD (CHBAGB2L). None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
The Swift name for this BIC differs from the legal name in GLEIF.
Licences belong to the legal entity. Each applies in the country of the regulator that granted it, not to every BIC that carries the LEI.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- CHBAJPJTXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under CHBAJPJT directly.
- Swift GPI
- Not on the member list
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- BIC first registered
- 1981-03-09
- Last updated
- 2022-02-14
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Ownership
Publicly listed
Ticker 8331
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as ちばぎん (Chibagin)
- Standing
- On 25 March 2026 the bank and The Chiba Kogyo Bank, Ltd. signed a final agreement to form a joint holding company, Chiba Financial Group, Inc., by share transfer. It is scheduled to take effect on 1 April 2027, subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. The bank's shares are then due to be delisted on 30 March 2027, and the bank will continue as a wholly owned subsidiary.
- Ownership
- The shares are widely held and listed. The largest registered holders are trust accounts at The Master Trust Bank of Japan (14.35%) and Custody Bank of Japan (5.37%), as at September 2025.
- Major shareholders
- The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (trust account) 14.35% · 30 Sep 2025
Custody Bank of Japan, Ltd. (trust account) 5.37% · 30 Sep 2025 - Stock listing
- Tokyo Stock Exchange (Prime Market) 8331
- Head office
- 1-2 Chiba-minato, Chuo-ku, 260-8720 Chiba, Japan
- Company register
- Corporate Number 2040001000019 (National Tax Agency, Japan)
- Name in the local language
- 株式会社千葉銀行
Business lines
The bank operates mainly in Chiba Prefecture, with further branches in Tokyo, Saitama, Ibaraki and Osaka. Overseas, it has four branches and two representative offices, in Shanghai and Bangkok.
Online
- Websites & references
- chibabank.co.jp ↗
Wikipedia ↗
Wikidata Q1071712 ↗ - Official social accounts
- X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · YouTube ↗ · LINE ↗
Sources · 11 pages consulted
- chibabank.co.jp
- chibabank.co.jp/en
- chibabank.co.jp/en/company/profile
- chibabank.co.jp/company/services/aboutus/officer
- chibabank.co.jp/news/news20260325_02
- chibabank.co.jp/kojin/services/other/foreign_exchange/incoming_remittance
- lfb.mof.go.jp/kantou/kinyuu/pagekt_cnt_20250919001.html
- lfb.mof.go.jp/kantou/kinyuu/pagekthp2023062339.html
- chibabank.co.jp/news/news20260323_04
- nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCC24CQI0U5A920C2000000/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiba_Bank
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Tsutomu Yonemoto (米本 努) President (Representative Director), Group CEO
- Chair
- Yasuko Takayama (高山 靖子) Outside Director, Chair of the Board of Directors
- Executive
- Takashi Makinose (牧之瀬 孝) Director and Senior Executive Officer, Group CSO (Chief Strategy Officer)
- Executive
- Kiyomi Yamazaki (山﨑 清美) Deputy President (Representative Director), Group CBO, General Manager of Business Headquarters
- Executive
- Masayasu Ono (小野 雅康) Director and Senior Executive Officer, Group CRO, General Manager of Administration Headquarters
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Japan
- Financial Services Agency (acting through the Kanto Local Finance Bureau) Prudential supervisorAML supervisorConductSecuritiesResolution
- Japan
- Bank of Japan Central bank
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Leadership
The board promoted Kiyomi Yamazaki and Mutsumi Awaji to Deputy President and Representative Director, effective 1 April 2026.
chibabank.co.jp ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
The bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank signed a final agreement to create the holding company Chiba Financial Group on 1 April 2027.
chibabank.co.jp ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
The bank and Chiba Kogyo Bank signed a basic agreement on a business integration and reported it to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.
lfb.mof.go.jp ↗ -
Other
The bank acquired 19.9% of Chiba Kogyo Bank from the investment fund Ariake Capital for about JPY 23.7 billion.
nikkei.com ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- CHBAJPJTXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- CHBABank
- JPCountry · Japan
- JTLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers
- Country · region
- Japan · East Asia & Pacific
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
- Founded
- 1943
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
The The Chiba Bank, Ltd. group has 6 institutions in the directory, in 5 countries: all hold a BIC.
Including Chibagin Securities CO., LTD.
See the The Chiba Bank, Ltd. group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- 1-2 CHIBA- MINATO CHUO- KU CHIBA, CHIBA-KEN 260-8720 JAPAN
- Operational address
- 1-5-5 NIHOMBASHI MUROMACHI CHUO- KU TOKYO TOKYO 103-0022 JAPAN
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>CHBAJPJTXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>FGJPAKKCTZVSKZXNBS63</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>CHBAJPJTXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>FGJPAKKCTZVSKZXNBS63</LEI>
<Nm>THE CHIBA BANK, LTD.</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<Ctry>JP</Ctry>
<AdrLine>1-2 CHIBA- MINATO CHUO- KU CHIBA, CHIBA-KEN 260-8720</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>Swift’s two address fields do not agree on a town, so the full record gives the address as address lines only.
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- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
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