Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group

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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
Type Public (TYO: 8316)
Founded 2002
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Key people Teisuke Kitayama : President
Industry Financial Services
Employees 20,322 (consolidated) (2005)
Subsidiaries Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Website http://www.smfg.co.jp/

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (株式会社三井住友フィナンシャルグループ Kabushiki-gaisha Mitsui Sumitomo Finansharu Gurūpu?) (TYO: 8316), or SMFG, is a Japanese financial group, the third largest bank in Japan and one of the world's largest banks with asset of $1.3 trillion US dollars.

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December 2002 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is established through a share transfer from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation . SMFG's shares become listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Osaka Securities Exchange and the Nagoya Stock Exchange.


February 2003 Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company, Limited, SMBC Leasing Company, Limited, and The Japan Research Institute became wholly-owned subsidiaries of SMFG


June 2004 Reached an agreement to form a strategic alliance with Promise Co., Ltd. on consumer finance business. (Started collaborative business in April 2005.)


April 2005 Reached an agreement to form a strategic alliance with NTT DoCoMo on credit card business. (Transferred a portion of the shares of Sumitomo Mitsui Card held by SMFG to NTT DoCoMo, and Sumitomo Mitsui Card issued new shares and allocated them to NTT DoCoMo by means of third party allocation in July 2005. Started collaborative business in December 2005.)


September 2006 SMBC Friend Securities became wholly-owned subsidiary of SMFG


October 2006 Reached an agreement to pursue strategic joint business with the Sumitomo Corporation group in leasing and auto leasing businesses.


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Principal Shareholders (as of March 31, 2005);

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