DKB Group

The DKB Group (第一勧銀グループ, Dai'ichi Kangin Gurūpu) or the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Group was the largest Japanese keiretsu in the late 1990s.[1]

The group emerged after World War II and coalesced around the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. Two of DKB's largest clients, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Furukawa Electric, led their own respective corporate groups with a cross-supply relationship between the two. The Kawasaki and Furukawa groups agreed to begin holding presidents' meetings in 1966.[2] Itochu, which historically supplied Kawasaki with raw materials, became the main general trading company for the combined group.[3]

The group's presidents began regular Sankin-kai (三金会) meetings in 1971. Also in that year, the group's name developed from the merger of Dai-Ichi Bank and Nippon Kangyo Bank.[1] In 1998, an announcement was made that the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank was to be merged with Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan to form Mizuho Financial Group.[4] The resulting group, which was established in September 2000,[5] was the largest banking group in the world with assets of 140 trillion yen.[4][6] The next few years saw a parallel consolidation of their keiretsu industrial partners[4] and saw the group grow to 150 trillion yen in assets (30% GDP).[5]

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  2. ^ "Annual Report 1998" (PDF). Mizuho Financial Group. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  3. ^ Suzuki, Shinichi (2006). The Japanese Main Bank System: A Transaction Cost Approach. pp. 108–109. ISBN 9780542875380.[permanent dead link]
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  5. ^ a b Gup, Benton E. (2004). Too big to fail: policies and practices in government bailouts. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 261–263. ISBN 978-1-56720-621-0.
  6. ^ Park, Sung-Jo; Holzhausen, Arne (2001). Can Japan globalize?. Springer. p. 79. ISBN 978-3-7908-1381-4.