Japan · Financial institution
The Hokkoku Bank Limited
Legal name in the LEI record株式会社北國銀行
The Hokkoku Bank, Ltd. (株式会社北國銀行) is a Japanese joint-stock company (kabushiki kaisha) with its head office in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. It was established on 18 December 1943. In October 2021 it moved to a holding-company structure through a single-company share transfer. Its parent, Hokkoku Financial Holdings, Inc., renamed itself CCI Group, Inc. on 1 October 2025. The bank provides retail, corporate and SME banking, mainly in the Hokuriku prefectures of Ishikawa, Toyama and Fukui.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- HKOKJPJTXXX 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 HKOKJPJT directly.
- Swift GPI
- Live member
- 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
- 1988-02-22
- Last updated
- 2022-02-14
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Ownership
Group subsidiary
100% CCI Group, Inc. (株式会社CCIグループ; formerly Hokkoku Financial Holdings, Inc.)
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as The Hokkoku Bank, Ltd.
- Ownership
- The bank is wholly owned by CCI Group, Inc., a holding company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange that was created from the bank by a single-company share transfer in October 2021.
- Direct parent
- CCI Group, Inc. (株式会社CCIグループ; formerly Hokkoku Financial Holdings, Inc.), Japan 100%
- Major shareholder
- CCI Group, Inc. 100%
- Head office
- 2-12-6 Hirooka, 920-8670 Kanazawa, Japan
Business lines
The bank operates 104 branches, one overseas representative office in Ho Chi Minh City and 11 Money Plaza consultation outlets, mainly in the Hokuriku region. It also offers Visa debit cards, investment trusts and the digital regional currency service Tochitsuka.
Online
- Websites & references
- hokkokubank.co.jp ↗
ccig.co.jp ↗ Parent holding company (CCI Group, Inc.) site, which hosts group investor-relations and results filings
faq.hokkokubank.co.jp ↗ Customer FAQ site
Wikipedia ↗
Sources · 14 pages consulted
- hokkokubank.co.jp/
- hokkokubank.co.jp/company/about/outline/officer.html
- hokkokubank.co.jp/company/about/outline/index.html
- hokkokubank.co.jp/other/line/index.html
- hokkokubank.co.jp/company/
- hokkokubank.co.jp/ir/financial/as_report.html
- ccig.co.jp/ir/financial/tanshin/
- ccig.co.jp/_wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20260730-1.pdf
- ccig.co.jp/news/20250303-1/
- nikkinonline.com/article/360371
- nikkei.com/article/DGXZTSJT50101_U5A221C2000000/
- chunichi.co.jp/article/1002307
- faq.hokkokubank.co.jp/faq/show/3287?category_id=192&site_domain=default
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkoku_Bank
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Haruhiko Kometani (米谷 治彦) Representative Director and President
- Chair
- Takayasu Tada (多田 隆保) Representative Director and Chairman
- Executive
- Naotaka Terai (寺井 尚孝) Director and Managing Executive Officer (General Manager, Corporate Planning Department)
- Executive
- Susumu Taniguchi (谷口 進) Director and Managing Executive Officer (General Manager, Head Office Business Department)
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Japan
- Financial Services Agency Prudential supervisorAML supervisorConductResolution
- Japan
- Bank of Japan Central bank
Recent events 1 enforcement or investigation item
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Leadership
Toshiyuki Konishi stepped down as representative director. Naotaka Terai and Masaru Yamazaki joined the board as managing executive officers.
nikkinonline.com ↗ -
Incident
The bank warned customers about automated fraudulent calls impersonating it and restricted some same-day corporate online transfers to other banks.
hokkokubank.co.jp ↗ -
Other
The bank's parent, Hokkoku Financial Holdings, Inc., changed its name to CCI Group, Inc. The bank's own name did not change.
ccig.co.jp ↗ -
Leadership
Haruhiko Kometani became Representative Director and President, succeeding Shuji Tsuemura. Takayasu Tada became Representative Director and Chairman.
chunichi.co.jp ↗
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
- HKOKJPJTXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- HKOKBank
- JPCountry · Japan
- JTLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 549300KZ8RU11X0L9455
- 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 registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- 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
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
GLEIF’s relationship records name no parent for this LEI, and no group page is published for it.
Addresses
- Registered address
- 2-12-6 HIROOKA KANAZAWA 920-8670 JAPAN
- Operational address
- 2-12-6 HIROOKA FLOOR 8 KANAZAWA KANAZAWA 920-8670 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>HKOKJPJTXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300KZ8RU11X0L9455</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>HKOKJPJTXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300KZ8RU11X0L9455</LEI>
<Nm>THE HOKKOKU BANK LIMITED</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>KANAZAWA</TwnNm>
<Ctry>JP</Ctry>
<AdrLine>2-12-6 HIROOKA KANAZAWA 920-8670</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
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