Japan · Financial institution
The Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd.
Legal name in the LEI record株式会社商工組合中央金庫
The Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. is a joint-stock company established under the Shoko Chukin Bank Limited Act, with its head office in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. It was founded in 1936 and became a special company in October 2008. By law, its shareholders are limited to small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) cooperatives, their members and similar SME organisations. The bank provides lending, deposit, settlement and advisory services to SMEs. The government sold all its shares on 12 June 2025, most of them to the bank itself.
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
- SKCKJPJTXXX 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 SKCKJPJT 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
- Other BIC with this LEI
- SKCKUS33
- BIC first registered
- 1981-03-09
- Last updated
- 2025-12-13
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Total assets
Not published
Ownership
Privately held
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as Shoko Chukin (商工中金)
- Standing
- The government sold all its remaining shares in the bank on 12 June 2025. The amended Shoko Chukin Bank Limited Act took effect on 13 June 2025 and widened the bank's permitted business scope.
- Ownership
- The Shoko Chukin Bank Limited Act limits shareholders to SME cooperatives and similar organisations and their members. The bank bought about 895 million of the former government shares as treasury shares in 2025. In September 2026 it announced a sale of about 550 million of them to about 3,100 SME cooperatives and SMEs.
- Head office
- 2-10-17 Yaesu, Chuo-ku, 104-0028 Tokyo, Japan
- Company register
- Corporate Number 9010001120408 (National Tax Agency, Japan)
Business lines
The bank specialises in financing SMEs and their cooperatives in Japan and abroad. It also carries out government-designated crisis-response lending, which the law still requires of it after privatisation.
Online
- Websites & references
- shokochukin.co.jp ↗
shokochukin.co.jp/english ↗ English-language section of the corporate site - Official social accounts
- YouTube ↗
Sources · 11 pages consulted
- shokochukin.co.jp/sitefailover/about/company/officer/
- shokochukin.co.jp/about/company/profile/
- shokochukin.co.jp/about/company/message/
- shokochukin.co.jp/about/company/officer/
- shokochukin.co.jp/assets/pdf/nr_260306_01.pdf
- shokochukin.co.jp/about/company/amend/
- shokochukin.co.jp/english/about/company/profile/
- nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUB1769L0X10C26A9000000/
- nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA023UI0S5A500C2000000/
- nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA0582U0V01C24A1000000/
- nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUB184H00Y6A510C2000000/
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Masahiro Sekine (関根 正裕) Representative Director, President and Group CEO (代表取締役社長 グループCEO)
- Executive
- Shinya Yamada (山田 真也) Director and Managing Executive Officer, Group CSO, General Manager of Corporate Planning Division
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Japan
- Financial Services Agency Prudential supervisorAML supervisorConduct
- Japan
- Ministry of Finance Other
- Japan
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Other
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Other
The bank announced a sale of about 550 million treasury shares to about 3,100 SME cooperatives and SMEs at JPY 164 per share.
nikkei.com ↗ -
Leadership
The bank announced executive changes effective 1 April 2026, including three promotions to managing executive officer and three executive departures on 31 March 2026.
shokochukin.co.jp ↗ -
Other
The Ministry of Finance completed the sale of all government-held shares, mostly to the bank itself, and the amended Shoko Chukin Bank Limited Act took effect.
shokochukin.co.jp ↗ -
Other
The Ministry of Finance allowed the bank to bid for its own shares in the second tender of government-held shares.
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
- SKCKJPJTXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- SKCKBank
- JPCountry · Japan
- JTLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 549300OSGFLYKC22SO39
- 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
- 2-10-17, YAESU, CHUO- KU TOKYO 104-0028 JAPAN
- Operational address
- 2-10-17, YAESU, CHUO- KU TOKYO TOKYO 104-0028 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>SKCKJPJTXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300OSGFLYKC22SO39</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>SKCKJPJTXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300OSGFLYKC22SO39</LEI>
<Nm>THE SHOKO CHUKIN BANK, LTD.</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>TOKYO</TwnNm>
<Ctry>JP</Ctry>
<AdrLine>2-10-17, YAESU, CHUO- KU TOKYO 104-0028</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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