 Former head office building in Kobe | |
Native name | 太陽神戸銀行 |
|---|---|
Romanized name | Taiyō Kōbe Ginkō |
| Industry | Banking |
| Defunct | March 25, 1990 |
| Headquarters | Japan |
| Footnotes / references Infobox contains data translated from the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article | |
The Taiyo-Kobe Bank or TKB (太陽神戸銀行, Taiyo-Kobe Ginko) was a major Japanese bank, resulting from the 1973 merger of two banks established in 1936 and 1940 respectively. It was a rare major Japanese commercial bank unaffiliated with either a keiretsu group or a sogo shosha trading company.[1]
TKB merged with Mitsui Bank in 1990 to form Mitsui Taiyo Kobe Bank (MTKB), renamed the Sakura Bank in April 1992, itself a predecessor entity of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC).
- ^ "THE TAIYO KOBE BANK, LTD. History". International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 2. St. James Press, 1990. Retrieved 7 April 2015.