Profile

The Kiyo Financial Group was being established in 2006 under the parent company, Kiyo Holdings, Inc. The Group is centered on The Kiyo Bank, Ltd. (hereinafter Kiyo Bank) whose operating base consists of Wakayama Prefecture. The management of the Group aim to develop it into a provider of a comprehensive range of financial services, with the banking business at the core, in which each company in the Group is able to display its particular strengths to the full banking.
    Since its foundation in 1895, Kiyo Bank has been the leading regional bank in Wakayama Prefecture, and in that role has worked actively to further the economic development of the region. Kiyo Bank currently operates 102 branches, including 67 in Wakayama Prefecture and 32 in Osaka Prefecture. With the Wakayama-Senshu (Southern part of Osaka Prefecture) region as its operating base, Kiyo Bank engages in a wide range of financial businesses. In addition to our 102 branches, we also operate four business support centers (which handle relatively small loans for commercial customers) and 12 mortgage loan centers to expand our ability to meet our customers’ increasingly diversifying needs.
    As of the end of March 2007 Kiyo Bank’s paid-in capital amounted to ¥80.1 billion, and it had total assets of ¥3,321.2 billion and total deposits of ¥3,088.6 billion. The Bank’s employees as of that date numbered 1,993.