Japan · Financial institution

The Shikoku Bank LTD

The Shikoku Bank, Ltd. is a Japanese joint-stock company (kabushiki kaisha) with its head office in Kochi. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and reports no parent company. It is a regional bank offering retail, corporate and international banking services. As of 31 March 2026 it had 110 outlets, mainly in Kochi, Tokushima, Kagawa and Ehime prefectures and on Honshu. It was founded in 1878 as the 37th National Bank and took its current name in 1923. In November 2025 it made its leasing affiliate Shigin Sogo Lease a wholly owned subsidiary.

BICSIKOJPJTXXX LEI353800WDXTE9PTGKDW46 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 SIKOJPJT directly. Swift GPI live member 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
SIKOJPJTXXX 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 SIKOJPJT 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
1982-03-01
Last updated
2022-06-04

Overview

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

Total assets

JPY 3.51tn

Group · 31 Mar 2026 · annual report ↗

Employees

1,274

headcount · This entity · 31 Mar 2026 · source ↗

Ownership

Publicly listed

Ticker 8387

Institution type

Commercial bank

Trades as 四国銀行 (Shikoku Bank)

Ownership
The bank's shares are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (code 8387), and on 31 March 2026 it had 32,508 shareholders.
Stock listing
Tokyo Stock Exchange 8387
Head office
南はりまや町一丁目1番1号 (1-1-1 Minamiharimaya-cho), 780-8605 Kochi, Japan
Former names
The Kochi Bank · The 37th National Bank

Business lines

  • Retail banking
  • SME banking
  • Corporate banking
  • Mortgage lending
  • Consumer finance
  • Trade finance
  • Transaction banking & payments
  • Cards
  • Brokerage
  • Leasing & factoring

The bank offers deposits, loans, foreign exchange and trade finance to local businesses and households. It also arranges securities products under a comprehensive business alliance with Daiwa Securities.

Online

Websites & references
shikokubank.co.jp ↗
shikokubank.co.jp/profile/english ↗ English-language profile and investor-relations page
Official social accounts
None found
Sources · 14 pages consulted
  1. shikokubank.co.jp/
  2. shikokubank.co.jp/profile/
  3. shikokubank.co.jp/profile/profile.html
  4. shikokubank.co.jp/profile/executive.html
  5. shikokubank.co.jp/profile/highlight.html
  6. shikokubank.co.jp/profile/english/index.html
  7. shikokubank.co.jp/corporation/gaikoku/index.html
  8. shikokubank.co.jp/corporation/manage/kokusai.html
  9. contents.xj-storage.jp/xcontents/AS02508/223b9e1a/8f17/4da1/bdba/7426a52a1ccf/140120260212555740.pdf
  10. finance.yahoo.co.jp/quote/8387.T/financials
  11. nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO91468400S5A920C2LA0000/
  12. kochinews.co.jp/article/detail/910394
  13. nikkinonline.com/article/394567
  14. nikkinonline.com/article/100987

Leadership

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

Chief executive
Tatsuji Kobayashi (小林 達司) 取締役頭取(代表取締役) (President and Representative Director) Confirmed 29 Sep 2026 · shikokubank.co.jp ↗
Chair
Fumiaki Yamamoto (山元 文明) 取締役会長 (Chairman of the Board) Confirmed 29 Sep 2026 · shikokubank.co.jp ↗
Executive
Masato Hashitani (橋谷 正人) 専務取締役(代表取締役) (Senior Managing Director and Representative Director) Confirmed 29 Sep 2026 · shikokubank.co.jp ↗

Supervisors & regulators

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

Japan
Financial Services Agency Prudential supervisorAML supervisorConduct
Japan
Bank of Japan Central bank

Recent events

Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources

  1. Leadership

    At the 26 June 2026 shareholders' meeting, Shingo Uchikawa became managing director and managing director Ken Tsunemitsu stepped down.

    nikkinonline.com ↗
  2. Merger / acquisition

    The bank made its equity-method affiliate Shigin Sogo Lease a wholly owned subsidiary and booked a JPY 12.8 billion gain from negative goodwill.

    contents.xj-storage.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
SIKOJPJTXXX
How the BIC breaks down
  1. SIKOBank
  2. JPCountry · Japan
  3. JTLocation
  4. XXXBranch · head office
Branch description
Not recorded in the directory
LEI
353800WDXTE9PTGKDW46
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
1 MINAMIHARIMAYA 1 CHOME KOCHI 780-8605 JAPAN
Operational address
1-1-1 MINAMIHARIMAYA- CHO KOCHI KOCHI 780-8605 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>SIKOJPJTXXX</BICFI>
  <LEI>353800WDXTE9PTGKDW46</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>SIKOJPJTXXX</BICFI>
  <LEI>353800WDXTE9PTGKDW46</LEI>
  <Nm>THE SHIKOKU BANK LTD</Nm>
  <PstlAdr>
    <TwnNm>KOCHI</TwnNm>
    <Ctry>JP</Ctry>
    <AdrLine>1 MINAMIHARIMAYA 1 CHOME KOCHI 780-8605</AdrLine>
  </PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>

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Sources & method

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