Description

Shinsei Bank, Limited, a comprehensive financial institution headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and established in 1952, provides an extensive range of banking and financial products and services. The bank serves a diverse clientele, including individual consumers, corporations, public-sector entities, and other financial institutions across Japan. For its individual customers, Shinsei Bank offers a variety of deposit accounts, encompassing both yen and foreign currency options, as well as structured deposits. Its retail financial solutions also include home mortgages, housing loans, unsecured personal loans, and payment instruments like prepaid and credit cards. Further catering to individuals, the bank provides investment trusts, brokerage services, life and non-life insurance, consumer finance, credit guarantee services, installment sales finance, and wealth management. On the corporate and institutional front, Shinsei Bank specializes in a broad spectrum of lending and advisory services. This includes general corporate loans, alongside highly specialized financing for areas such as start-ups, non-recourse real estate, project development, renewable energy, acquisitions, shipping, healthcare, sustainable and impact projects, and M&A-related transactions, complemented by loan syndication. Beyond credit, the bank provides foreign exchange and derivatives solutions, M&A advisory, credit trading, private equity investments, and support for business succession and restructuring. Additional institutional offerings encompass trust services, leasing-related financial products, participation in equity and other capital markets transactions, securities services, asset management, and treasury functions. The institution, which was originally incorporated as The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited, changed its name to Shinsei Bank, Limited in June 2000.