Shizuoka Chuo Bank

Wiki route

This entry sits under regional-banks INDEX (its domain route). Read it against Shizuoka Bank for the same-prefecture first-regional-bank peer / contrast, and against the FSA plus banking for the supervisory / system boundary.

TL;DR

Shizuoka Chuo Bank, Ltd. (株式会社静岡中央銀行) is a second-tier regional bank headquartered in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, holding a bank license under the Banking Act and listed in the FSA’s bank license list. Its predecessor was Izu Mujin, established in 1926 年, and it is a second-regional-bank operating company that converted to an ordinary bank in 1989 年 8 月. Its business is the standard second-tier regional bank model of deposit-taking and lending to SMEs / individuals centered on Numazu, with a branch network extending across Shizuoka Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Tokyo.

1. License / group boundary

Item	Notes
Legal name	株式会社静岡中央銀行 / Shizuoka Chuo Bank, Ltd.
License route	bank license under the Banking Act (second-tier regional bank); FSA bank license list
Group boundary	Independent second-regional bank（独立系第二地銀）
Lineage	Izu Mujin (1926) → ordinary-bank conversion / current name (1989-08)
Home market	Shizuoka / Numazu; Kanagawa・Tokyo adjacency
Wiki role	Shizuoka second-regional-bank operating-company page

2. Operating model

Shizuoka Chuo Bank is a second-tier regional bank that, headquartered in Numazu, handles retail deposits, SME finance, regional relationship banking, and prefecture-border branch coverage. According to its official company outline, it has a branch network across Shizuoka Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Tokyo, and coexists in the Shizuoka market as a separate legal entity from the first-tier regional bank Shizuoka Bank and the independent banks Shimizu Bank and Suruga Bank. For consolidation pressure relating to second-tier regional banks, see Regional bank consolidation pattern.

3. Why this page matters

Pins down the second-regional-bank exact-name gap in the FSA bank license list (Banking Act).
Provides an anchor distinct from Shizuoka Bank, Shimizu Bank, and Suruga Bank.
Maps Shizuoka / Kanagawa-adjacent regional banking coverage together with The Kanagawa Bank.

Sources

FSA: bank license list (ginkou.xlsx), second regional banks.
Shizuoka Chuo Bank official company profile.
静岡中央銀行 (Wikipedia): lineage Izu Mujin (1926) → ordinary-bank conversion / current name (1989-08); HQ Numazu; branch network across Shizuoka, Kanagawa, Tokyo.