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MUFG Bank

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MUFG Bank, Ltd.
株式会社三菱UFJ銀行
Company typePublic KK
NYSEMTU
TYO: 8306
TOPIX Core 30 Component
IndustryBanking, Financial services
PredecessorMitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, Inc.
UFJ Holdings, Inc.
FoundedOctober 1, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-10-01) (by merger)
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Kiyoshi Sono
(Chairman)
Nobuyuki Hirano
(President and Group CEO)
ServicesPersonal Banking
Corporate banking
Investment banking
Investment management
Wealth Management
Mortgage
Credit cards
RevenueIncrease JPY 4.495 trillion (2013)[1]
Increase JPY 1.069 trillion (2013)[1]
Total assetsIncrease US$ 2.459 trillion (2016)[2]
Total equityIncrease JPY 10.608 trillion (2013)[1]
Number of employees
106,800 (2015)
SubsidiariesThe Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities
Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS
Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance
UnionBanCal Corporation
Websitewww.mufg.jp

MUFG Bank, Ltd. (株式会社三菱UFJ銀行, Kabushiki Gaisha Mitsubishi Yūefujē Ginkō) is a Japanese bank holding company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.[3]

MUFG holds assets of around US$2.459 trillion as of 2016, making it the world's fifth largest bank by total assets[1] and is one of the main companies of the Mitsubishi Group.[4] It is Japan's largest financial group and the world's second largest bank holding company holding around US$1.8 trillion (JPY 148 trillion) in deposits as of March 2011.[1] MUFG is the second largest public company in Japan when measured by market capitalization.[5] The letters MUFG come from Mitsubishi and United Financial of Japan, the name of an acquired company.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "US. SEC Annual Report (Form 20-F)" (PDF). May 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
  2. "Mitsubishi UFJ Financial on the Forbes Global 2000 List". Forbes.
  3. "About MUFG." Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Retrieved on December 7, 2009.
  4. "MUFG; Company Overview". Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
  5. "Historical market caps of the largest Japanese companies". Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.