Japan · Financial institution

The Hokuriku Bank,ltd.

The Hokuriku Bank, Ltd. is a Japanese joint-stock company (kabushiki kaisha) with its head office in Toyama. It was established on 31 July 1943 and traces its origins to 1877. The bank is a subsidiary of Hokuhoku Financial Group, Inc., which also owns The Hokkaido Bank, Ltd. It provides deposit, lending, foreign exchange, trade and settlement services to individuals and companies, mainly in the Hokuriku region, Hokkaido and Japan's major metropolitan areas. The Hokuriku Bank and The Hokkaido Bank combined their management in September 2004 to form the Hokuhoku Financial Group.

BICRIKBJPJTXXX LEI549300H6TOJW23N9MZ20 Licence no.Not on a tracked register Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under RIKBJPJT directly. Head-office BIC only Claim this profile

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
RIKBJPJTXXX 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 RIKBJPJT 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

Hokuhoku Financial Group headquarters
Photo: RESPITE · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · original

Total assets

JPY 10tn

This entity · 31 Mar 2026 · annual report ↗

Employees

2,267

headcount · This entity · 31 Mar 2026 · source ↗

Ownership

Group subsidiary

Hokuhoku Financial Group, Inc.

Institution type

Commercial bank

Trades as Hokugin (ほくぎん)

Ownership
The bank is a subsidiary of Hokuhoku Financial Group, Inc., a holding company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market and the Sapporo Securities Exchange.
Direct parent
Hokuhoku Financial Group, Inc., Japan
Head office
1-2-26 Tsutsumicho-dori, 930-8637 Toyama, Japan
Name in the local language
株式会社北陸銀行

Business lines

  • Retail banking
  • SME banking
  • Corporate banking
  • Mortgage lending
  • Consumer finance
  • Trade finance
  • Transaction banking & payments
  • Insurance
  • Brokerage

The bank serves individuals and companies through 187 domestic outlets and 6 overseas representative offices, as of June 2026. It also sells insurance and investment trusts and acts as a securities intermediary.

Online

Websites & references
hokugin.co.jp ↗
hokuhoku-fg.co.jp ↗ Investor relations of the parent Hokuhoku Financial Group, linked from the bank's site as its financial and IR information
Wikipedia ↗
Wikidata Q5878308 ↗
Official social accounts
X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · YouTube ↗ · LINE ↗
Sources · 10 pages consulted
  1. hokugin.co.jp/
  2. hokugin.co.jp/company/profile.html
  3. hokuhoku-fg.co.jp/info/overview/director/
  4. hokuhoku-fg.co.jp/info/group/
  5. hokugin.co.jp/company/top_message.html
  6. xml.irpocket.com/C8377/2026/release05211500.pdf
  7. hokuhoku-fg.co.jp/english/info/overview/director/
  8. hokuhoku-fg.co.jp/english/info/corporate/profile/
  9. hokuhoku-fg.co.jp/english/financial/docs/fg_ar2017.pdf
  10. ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E9%99%B8%E9%8A%80%E8%A1%8C

Leadership

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

Chief executive
Hiroshi Nakazawa (中澤 宏) Representative Director and President (代表取締役頭取) Confirmed 29 Sep 2026 · hokuhoku-fg.co.jp ↗
Chair
Eishin Ihori (庵 栄伸) Representative Director and Chairman (代表取締役会長) Confirmed 29 Sep 2026 · hokuhoku-fg.co.jp ↗
Executive
Masahiko Kobayashi (小林 正彦) Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer (取締役・専務執行役員) Confirmed 29 Sep 2026 · hokuhoku-fg.co.jp ↗

Supervisors & regulators

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

Japan
Financial Services Agency Prudential supervisorConductAML supervisorResolution
Japan
Hokuriku Local Finance Bureau Prudential supervisorSecurities
Japan
Bank of Japan Central bank

Recent events

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

The research found no fines, investigations, leadership changes or corporate events from the last three years.

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
RIKBJPJTXXX
How the BIC breaks down
  1. RIKBBank
  2. JPCountry · Japan
  3. JTLocation
  4. XXXBranch · head office
Branch description
Not recorded in the directory
LEI
549300H6TOJW23N9MZ20
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
Founded
1877

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
1-2-26 TSUTSUMICHO- DORI TOYAMA- SHI 930-8637 JAPAN
Operational address
KANDA HIGASHINIPPON BUILDING FLOOR 5 2 KANDATOMIYAMACHO CHIYODA- KU TOKYO TOKYO 101-0043 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>RIKBJPJTXXX</BICFI>
  <LEI>549300H6TOJW23N9MZ20</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>RIKBJPJTXXX</BICFI>
  <LEI>549300H6TOJW23N9MZ20</LEI>
  <Nm>THE HOKURIKU BANK,LTD.</Nm>
  <PstlAdr>
    <Ctry>JP</Ctry>
    <AdrLine>1-2-26 TSUTSUMICHO- DORI TOYAMA- SHI 930-8637</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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Sources & method

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