Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

The Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), is an international access, private sector entity based in Japan. It aims to improve corporate value by providing high-quality services to its customers while putting significant efforts into addressing environmental and social issues. SMBC offers a broad range of financial services including deposit taking, lending, securities brokering and trading, and securities investment. It contributes to climate change and environmental protection by leveraging its financial services, focusing on the areas of environmental management, renewable energy development and technologies, water security and natural resources management.

SMBC offers personal, corporate and investment banking services through a network of 130 branches that extends across 40 countries and regions in Africa, Asia, North and Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. It also establishes partnerships with commercial banks and supports start-up companies and industries taking advantage of its network with governments, major companies, universities and research institutions. 

SMBC is committed to continuously support its customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote the introduction of environment-friendly technologies through its business operations. In addition, it intends to continuously identify the sectors with assets that might suffer loss due to abnormal weather and assets that are vulnerable to climate change.