Message from the Executive Director of Financial and Capital Strategies

My name is Makoto Shinmura, and as a newly appointed senior managing executive I have been placed in charge of financial and capital strategy as well as information disclosure from April 2024.

This past year was one in which the business environment surrounding JAPAN POST BANK underwent significant change. In March of last year, there was a large-scale offering and sale of the Bank’s stock, and as well as becoming a bank that is supported by even more shareholders, we also gained unprecedented attention from the capital markets, which personally speaking was a humbling experience. Japan is also in the midst of changing times, with "a world of positive interest rates" becoming a hot topic for the first time in quite a while.

Under these circumstances, while ensuring its financial soundness as a financial institution, JAPAN POST BANK will utilize its capital and other management resources as sources of growth. In addition to devising ways to increase profits and our corporate value, we will strive to maximize this cycle to return profits to all our shareholders.

To achieve the "Co-creation Platform" for which the JAPAN POST GROUP is aiming, the JAPAN POST BANK—the financial institution possessing the largest retail network in Japan and one of the world’s leading institutional investors—will also provide easy-to-understand information about how it plans to take action and bring about growth. In eager anticipation, I thus gratefully look forward to your ongoing support for JAPAN POST BANK over the years to come.

April 2024

Makoto Shinmura

Senior Managing Executive Officer
JAPAN POST BANK Co., Ltd.