Mizuho Bank, Ltd.

Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
株式会社みずほ銀行

Type	public company KK (a Mizuho Financial Group company)
Industry	Financial Services
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Nobuhide Hayashi (President & CEO)
Revenue	¥1,198,310 million (non-consolidated, FY 2013)
Net income	¥445,228 million (non-consolidated, FY 2013)
Number of employees	26,839 (non-consolidated, July 2014)
Parent	Mizuho Financial Group
Subsidiaries	Mizuho Securities UC Card Mizuho Capital Eurekahedge
Website	www.mizuhobank.com

Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (株式会社みずほ銀行, Kabushiki-gaisha Mizuho Ginkō^?) is the integrated retail and corporate banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group (TYO:8411; NYSE:MFG), one of the largest financial services companies in Japan, with total assets of approximately $1.64 trillion in 2014. Mizuho is one of the three so-called Japanese "megabanks" (along with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group). Mizuho Bank provides financial products and services to a wide range of clients, including individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, large corporations, financial institutions and public sector entities. Its headquarters office building is located in the Otemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo.

Mizuho Bank has over 505 branches and offices in Japan and in thirty-six other countries and regions, and is the only bank to have branches in every prefecture in Japan.

The name “Mizuho” is an archaic Japanese term meaning “golden ears of rice,” and was used in the classical text Nihon Shoki to describe Japan.

Announced in 1999, Mizuho Financial Group was established on April 1, 2002 by the merger of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. All three predecessors were major financial institutions in their own right and had served as cornerstones of major zaibatsu (prewar era) and keiretsu (postwar era). In April 2002, Mizuho Corporate Bank and Mizuho Bank were established as two core banking subsidiaries of Mizuho Financial Group through a split and merger process reorganizing the three legacy banks. It was the first financial holding company structure created among major Japanese banks. Mizuho Corporate Bank focused on large corporations, financial institutions and public sector entities in Japan and overseas. Mizuho Bank focused on individuals and small and medium-sized companies in Japan.