Aozora Bank, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides various banking products and services in Japan and internationally. It operates through Retail Banking Group, Institutional Banking Group, Allied Banking Group, Specialty Finance Group, International Finance Group, and Financial Markets Group segments. The company offers checking accounts, savings accounts, time deposits, deposits-at-notice, non-residents deposits, and negotiable certificates of deposit, as well as deposits in foreign currencies. It also provides loans on deeds, loans on notes, and overdrafts; discount on promissory notes; securities investments, including public, local, and corporate bonds, as well as equity and other securities; domestic and foreign exchange services; and consignment of bonds. In addition, the company offers liabilities guarantee, securities lending, public bonds underwriting, agency, custody, and financial instruments intermediary services. Further, it is involved in the over-the-counter sale of securities investment trusts and insurance products; and provision of trust services for secured corporate bonds, as well as interest rate, currency, and other derivative transaction services. Additionally, the company offers asset management consultation, merger and acquisition advisory, business succession, acquisition and project financing, and equity financing through private equity fund services; syndicated loans arrangements; asset securitization, real estate finance and business recovery finance, and corporate finance services; project financing services in the areas of shipping and trade; other structured finance services; and derivative products and trust services. As of March 31, 2020, it operated 20 domestic offices. The company was formerly known as Nippon Fudosan Bank, Limited and changed its name to Aozora Bank, Ltd. in 2001. Aozora Bank, Ltd. was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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