Japan · Financial institution
The Kiyo Bank Limited
Legal name in the LEI record株式会社 紀陽銀行
The Kiyo Bank, Ltd is a Japanese joint-stock company (kabushiki kaisha) with its head office in Wakayama City. Its shares are listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and no controlling parent is reported. It is a regional bank that takes deposits and provides lending, domestic and foreign exchange, and investment and insurance product sales. It mainly serves Wakayama and Osaka prefectures. It was founded on 2 May 1895 as Kiyo Savings Bank and took its present name in 1922. It merged with Wakayama Bank in October 2006 and absorbed its former holding company, Kiyo Holdings, in October 2013.
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
- KIYOJPJTXXX 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 KIYOJPJT 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
- 1987-09-21
- Last updated
- 2022-02-14
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Ownership
Publicly listed
Ticker 8370
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as Kiyo Bank (紀陽銀行)
- Ownership
- The bank is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market, and no controlling shareholder is reported.
- Stock listing
- Tokyo Stock Exchange (Prime Market) 8370
- Head office
- 本町1丁目35番地 (35 Honmachi 1-chome), 640-8656 Wakayama, Japan
- Company register
- Corporate Number 9170001000916 (National Tax Agency)
- Name in the local language
- 株式会社紀陽銀行
- Former name
- 株式会社紀陽貯蓄銀行 (Kiyo Savings Bank, 1895–1922)
Business lines
According to its filings, the bank's business is concentrated in lending to small and medium-sized enterprises and retail lending in Wakayama and Osaka, and its subsidiaries provide leasing, cards, credit guarantees and IT services.
Online
- Websites & references
- kiyobank.co.jp ↗
kiyobank-ba.jp ↗ Kiyo Big Advance business support platform for corporate clients
kiyobank.co.jp/english ↗ English investor relations pages
Wikipedia ↗
Wikidata Q11605123 ↗ - Official social accounts
- None found
Sources · 9 pages consulted
- kiyobank.co.jp/
- kiyobank.co.jp/investors/company_profile/
- kiyobank.co.jp/investors/company_profile/history_01.html
- kiyobank.co.jp/personal/get_pdf.php?f=00003153
- kiyobank.co.jp/investors/ir/get_pdf.php?f=00000295
- kiyobank.co.jp/personal/service/foreign-remittance/index.html
- kiyobank.co.jp/english/
- lfb.mof.go.jp/kinki/71.html
- ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%80%E9%99%BD%E9%8A%80%E8%A1%8C
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Hiroyuki Haraguchi (原口 裕之) Director and President, President and Executive Officer (Representative Director) (取締役頭取兼頭取執行役員)
- Chair
- Yasuyuki Matsuoka (松岡 靖之) Chairman of the Board (Representative Director) (取締役会長)
- Executive
- Norio Maruoka (丸岡 範夫) Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer and General Manager, Corporate Planning Headquarters (取締役専務執行役員経営企画本部長)
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Japan
- Financial Services Agency Prudential supervisorAML supervisorConductResolution
- Japan
- Kinki Local Finance Bureau (supervision delegated by the Financial Services Agency) Prudential supervisorOther
- Japan
- Bank of Japan Central bank
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Other
The bank scheduled a three-for-one split of its ordinary shares with effect from 1 October 2026.
kiyobank.co.jp ↗ -
Leadership
The bank's shareholders' meeting appointed Takeshi Tokumaru as a director, and Managing Executive Officer Sakae Mizobuchi left the board.
kiyobank.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
- KIYOJPJTXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- KIYOBank
- JPCountry · Japan
- JTLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 3538002347FGLMNPVY63
- 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
- 1895
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
- 35 HONMACHI 1- CHOME WAKAYAMA 640-8656 JAPAN
- Operational address
- 35 HONMACHI 1-CHOME WAKAYAMA WAKAYAMA 640-8656 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>KIYOJPJTXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>3538002347FGLMNPVY63</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>KIYOJPJTXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>3538002347FGLMNPVY63</LEI>
<Nm>THE KIYO BANK LIMITED</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>WAKAYAMA</TwnNm>
<Ctry>JP</Ctry>
<AdrLine>35 HONMACHI 1- CHOME WAKAYAMA 640-8656</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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