愛知県医療信用組合 (Aichi Medical Credit Cooperative)
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This entry sits under cooperative-banks INDEX as the 業域 (medical-occupation) shinkumi anchor for the Chukyo region, peer to occupation-based Keishicho Shinkumi (police) and Tokyo Metropolitan Government Employees Credit Cooperative (Tokyo Metropolitan Government Employees Credit Cooperative) (civil servant). Medical shinkumi form the largest single-industry shinkumi category in Japan’s 143-cooperative population catalogued in Japan credit cooperative registry.
TL;DR
The Aichi Medical Credit Cooperative is a occupation-based credit cooperative whose members are dentists (its official site explicitly states “a cooperative of dentists, by dentists, for dentists”), headquartered at the Aichi Dental Association Hall (6 F), Marunouchi, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi. FSA registry No. 79 (under the jurisdiction of the Tokai Local Finance Bureau), corporate number 6180005003438. Established in 1962 年 for members of the Aichi Dental Association, it expanded its area in 2015 年 to dental-association members in Gifu and Mie Prefectures. The Aichi Iryo Shinkumi (registry No. 78, , targeting physicians) coexists within the same Aichi Prefecture, and the two are demarcated by dentists / physicians. National Federation of Credit Cooperatives (Zenshinkumiren) members, Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan (DIC) covered. Housing loans, business-startup funds, and medical-equipment loans, etc., for members (dentists) form the core of its business. •
1. Corporate overview
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Formal name | 愛知県医療信用組合 |
| Common name | 医療信組 / 県医療信組 (Iryo Shinkumi / Ken Iryo Shinkumi) |
| Established | 1962-09 (established for members of the Aichi Dental Association; expanded its area to Gifu and Mie in 2015 年) |
| Corporate number | 6180005003438 • |
| FSA registry No. | 79 (Tokai Local Finance Bureau) |
| Legal form | Credit cooperative (compliant with the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act) |
| Head-office location | Aichi Dental Association Hall 6 F, 3-5-18 Marunouchi, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi (postal code 460-0002) • |
| System | National Federation of Credit Cooperatives (Zenshinkumiren) member |
| Supervisory authority | FSA / Tokai Local Finance Bureau |
| Deposit insurance | Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan (DIC) covered |
| Home market | Dentists in Aichi, Gifu, and Mie (dental-association members of each prefecture) |
| Shinkumi type | Occupation-based credit cooperative (dentist occupation) |
Membership eligibility •
As an occupation-based shinkumi, membership eligibility is limited to the dentist occupation:
- Basic requirement: dental-association members (dentists) in Aichi, Gifu, and Mie Prefectures
- Medical institutions: dental clinics, etc., established or staffed by the above dentists
- Retirees: OB / OG who have retired from the above (continued membership within a certain period is common)
- Spouses / relatives: members’ spouses and same-household family (per the articles of association)
- Non-member use: strictly restricted
Aichi medical shinkumi 2 行-cooperative structure •
| Shinkumi | Head office | Members | registry No. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 愛知県医師信用組合 | Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya | Physicians (medical-association members) | 78 |
| 愛知県医療信用組合 ★this page | Marunouchi, Naka-ku, Nagoya (inside the Dental Association Hall) | Dentists (dental-association members) | 79 |
Nationwide medical shinkumi network •
Medical shinkumi exist in over 17 prefectures nationwide, one of the largest occupation categories in the shinkumi industry:
| Shinkumi | Prefecture | registry No. |
|---|---|---|
| 岩手県医師信用組合 | Iwate | 9 |
| 山形県医師信用組合 | Yamagata | 16 |
| 群馬県医師信用組合 | Gunma | 28 |
| 埼玉県医師信用組合 | Saitama | 32 |
| 神奈川県医師信用組合 | Kanagawa | 56 |
| 神奈川県歯科医師信用組合 | Kanagawa | 57 |
| 岐阜県医師信用組合 | Gifu | 73 |
| 静岡県医師信用組合 | Shizuoka | 77 |
| 愛知県医師信用組合 | Aichi | 78 |
| 愛知県医療信用組合 ★this page | Aichi | 79 |
| 富山県医師信用組合 | Toyama | 88 |
| 石川県医師信用組合 | Ishikawa | 89 |
| 福井県医師信用組合 | Fukui | 91 |
| 大阪府医師信用組合 | Osaka | 98 |
| 兵庫県医療信用組合 | Hyogo | 110 |
| 和歌山県医師信用組合 | Wakayama | 113 |
| 福岡県医師信用組合 | Fukuoka | 127 |
| 佐賀県医師信用組合 | Saga | 130 |
| 長崎県医師信用組合 | Nagasaki | 134 |
| 熊本県医師信用組合 | Kumamoto | 138 |
| 鹿児島県医師信用組合 | Kagoshima | 142 |
Note: Medical shinkumi, at about 21 行, are the largest occupation category, accounting for 15% of the 143 shinkumi. Many were established against the backdrop of historical relationships with medical associations, building their membership base during the postwar expansion of medical institutions.
Positioning within Zenshinkumiren
- A Tokai-block member of National Federation of Credit Cooperatives (Zenshinkumiren)
- Among the Tokai 15 shinkumi, one wing of the Aichi 8 shinkumi
- One of the representative institutions of the medical-occupation shinkumi group (21 行 nationwide)
- System ATM linkage and surplus-fund management are routed through Zenshinkumiren
Main business •
| Business | Details |
|---|---|
| Business-startup financing | Independent-startup funds for physicians, dentists, and pharmacists |
| Medical-equipment loans | Funds for purchasing / leasing expensive medical equipment |
| Medical-institution working capital | Working capital for clinics and pharmacies |
| Housing loans | Home-acquisition funds for member households |
| Education loans | Education funds for members’ children (advancement to medical school, etc.) |
| Ceremonial-occasion financing | Celebration / condolence expenses for member households |
| Time / liquidity deposits | Deposits for member households |
| Retirement-fund management | Asset-management consultation for members who have reached mandatory retirement |
| Medical-corporation working capital | Short-term funds for medical corporations |
5. KPI update route
| Public items | Primary source | Posting rules |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets/deposits/loans/investments | Aichi Prefecture Medical Credit Union’s latest disclosure magazine | Post only values from the same reference date and the same material |
| Equity ratio/Non-performing loan indicators | Financial and risk disclosure in the same disclosure magazine | Include the index name, denominator, and base date. |
| Union members, officers, employees, stores | Organizational overview or disclosure magazine of the association | Do not confuse “store” with branch offices, etc. |
| Corporate number/head office/registration jurisdiction | Financial Services Agency credit union license list | Check and reflect the update date of the list |
Sources: KPI is updated with the latest disclosure magazine published by Aichi Prefecture Medical Credit Union, and corporate identification information is updated with the Financial Services Agency’s list of credit union licenses. The 2022 figures derived from secondary materials and the inferences about the loan ratio and investment structure derived from them that were in the previous edition have been withdrawn. ^[Sources: https://www.iryoushin.com/; https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/shinkumi.xlsx.]
6. Supervision / regulation
- Jurisdiction: FSA / Tokai Local Finance Bureau
- Legal basis: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act + Act on Financial Businesses by Cooperatives (Kyokin Act)
- Deposit insurance: Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan (DIC) general-financial-institution category
- Recent policy issues:
- DX response (member-facing smartphone apps, electronic contracts, web-completed loans)
- Cost of responding to AML/CFT strengthening
- Structural changes in loan demand accompanying the surge in medical-corporation M&A
- The trend of declining independent startups by physicians (an increase in salaried physicians)
Related
- aichi-shogin-shinkumi — 信用組合愛知商銀 (peer within the Aichi 8 shinkumi, an occupation comparison)
- zenshin-kumi — National Federation of Credit Cooperatives (the shinkumi-industry central institution)
- keishicho-shinkumi — 警視庁職員信用組合 (peer occupational shinkumi, civil-servant type)
- dic — Deposit Insurance Corporation
- dbj — Development Bank of Japan (a competitor in medical-sector lending)
- credit-cooperative-registry-japan — Japan credit cooperative registry (all 143 shinkumi)
- cooperative-banking-japan — Cooperative-organization finance as a whole
- iwaki-shinkumi — Iwaki Credit Cooperative (peer regional-type shinkumi, a business-type comparison)
- cooperative-banks INDEX
Sources
- FSA Credit Cooperative License List: https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/shinkumi.xlsx (corporate number 6180005003438, registry No. 79)
- Aichi Medical Credit Cooperative official (membership eligibility / disclosure): https://www.iryoushin.com/
- National Central Association of Credit Cooperatives: https://www.shinyokumiai.or.jp/
- Zenshinkumiren (National Federation of Credit Cooperatives) official: https://www.zenshinkumiren.jp/
- Deposit Insurance Corporation official: https://www.dic.go.jp/
- Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act
- Act on Financial Businesses by Cooperatives (Kyokin Act)
[!info] 校核状態 confidence: likely. The corporate number, registration jurisdiction, and head office location are based on the Financial Services Agency directory, and the membership status, mainly dentists, and renewal routes for products and disclosure are based on the official website. KPIs will be republished only if the latest official disclosure magazine has been directly confirmed.
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