FFG Securities (FFG証券)

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This entry sits under the securities-firms INDEX as the FG-subsidiary securities operating-company anchor for Fukuoka FG (FFG). Read it against parent operating bank The Bank of Fukuoka and sibling subsidiaries Eighteenth Shinwa Bank, Ltd. / Kumamoto Bank. For peer FG-securities comparison see Mebuki Securities under mebuki-fg and the broader regional-bank consolidation pattern for system / regulatory boundary.

TL;DR

FFG Securities Co., Ltd. is a regional-bank-affiliated securities firm, a 100% subsidiary of Fukuoka FG (FFG), providing asset management, public equity underwriting, private-placement-bond intermediation, and business-succession advisory to mid-tier-corporate main-bank customers in the Kyushu base (The Bank of Fukuoka / Eighteenth Shinwa Bank, Ltd. / Kumamoto Bank). With a Type I Financial Instruments Business (securities business) license, it is a member of Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA). A representative example of the Kyushu-based bank-securities cooperation model. ^•

1. License / group boundary

The following table is scoped to public primary sources (ffg-sec.co.jp, fukuoka-fg.com, fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ^↗

2. Shareholding tree

Fukuoka FG (FFG) (holding company / TSE PRIME 8354)
  ├── The Bank of Fukuoka (100%) ── Fukuoka base / core bank
  ├── Kumamoto Bank (100%) ── Kumamoto base
  ├── Eighteenth Shinwa Bank, Ltd. (100%) ── Nagasaki base
  ├── Minna Bank (100%) ── Japan's first fully-cloud-native digital bank
  ├── FFG Securities (FFG direct 100%, 2022-04〜, this page) ── group securities
  │     ├── Until 2022-04  it was a 100% subsidiary of Fukuoka Bank → transferred to directly under FFG in the same month
  │     ├── Kyushu 3 -prefecture + nationwide bank-securities cooperation
  │     └── Asset-management advisory for the wealthy / mid-tier companies
  ├── iBank Marketing (100%) ── operates the Wallet+ app (regional fintech)
  └── FFG Lease, FFG Card, FFG Venture Business Partners, etc.

FFG establishment and group integration

1. 2007-04-02FFG established (joint holding-company conversion of The Bank of Fukuoka + Kumamoto Family Bank)
2. 2007-10Shinwa Bank made a wholly-owned subsidiary of FFG (entry into Nagasaki Prefecture)
3. 2020-10-0118th Bank + Shinwa Bank → Eighteenth Shinwa Bank, Ltd. (completion of the Nagasaki-Prefecture base consolidation)
4. 2021-05-28Minna Bank launched (Japan’s first fully-cloud-native, smartphone-complete digital bank)

FFG Securities establishment / development

• 1940-06-06 Maeda Ryozo Shoten founded → 1944-07-07 Maeda Securities Co., Ltd. established
• 2012-04 Fukuoka Bank made it a wholly-owned subsidiary and changed its name to “Fukuoka Securities”
• 2018-05 Changed its name to “FFG Securities Co., Ltd.”
• 2022-04 Transferred from a 100% subsidiary of Fukuoka Bank to a direct 100% subsidiary of Fukuoka Financial Group (reorganized as the sole securities function of the FFG group)
• As an FFG group securities firm, it aims for linkage with the Kyushu 3 -prefecture base + the digital strategy of the parent fukuoka-fg

4. KPI table (concept)

The following table is scoped to public primary sources (ffg-sec.co.jp, fukuoka-fg.com, fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ^↗

Note: Because FFG Securities is an unlisted wholly-owned subsidiary, precise standalone financial KPIs are not separately disclosed; refer to the fukuoka-fg annual securities report segment information

5. Business segment map

The following table is scoped to public primary sources (ffg-sec.co.jp, fukuoka-fg.com, fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ^↗

Position within the FG

• Core of bank-securities cooperation: The securities window for fukuoka-fg customers (individuals / mid-tier companies)
• Asset-management cross-sell: Customer migration from bank deposits → investment trusts / fund wraps
• Business succession / M&A: Advisory services for Kyushu mid-tier-company owners

Competitive landscape

• Major securities firms (Nomura Holdings (Nomura HD) / Daiwa Sg / smbc-nikko / mizuho-securities): Major firms have the advantage on large Tokyo deals; with Kyushu local customers it counters through bank-securities cooperation
• Online brokers (sbi-securities / rakuten-securities / matsui-sec): At a disadvantage in individual digital trading, differentiates through face-to-face advisory
• Regional-bank-affiliated securities firms: Same-type models such as mebuki-securities (northern Kanto) / okasan-sg (Chukyo)
• Kyushu competition: Regional wide-area competition with Nishi Nippon Fhd-affiliated / Kyushu FG-affiliated securities subsidiaries / Hirogin HD-affiliated securities

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strengths: fukuoka-fg a 3 -prefecture 21.9 兆円 deposit-customer base (FY2025) + a Kyushu mid-tier-corporate main-bank network

7. Regulation / policy

• Supervision: Financial Services Agency (FSA) / Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau (registration as a Type I Financial Instruments Business operator)
• Industry association: A regular member of Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA)
• Regulatory issues:
  • Expansion of the bank-securities cooperation scope under the relaxation of bank-securities firewall regulation (2022-)
  • Compliance with the customer-first business-operation principles (FD principle)
  • Strengthening of investment-solicitation rules for the elderly
  • Pressure for transparency / low levels of investment-trust sales fees

Related

• fukuoka-fg · fukuoka-bank · 18-shinwa-bank · kumamoto-bank · ibank-marketing
• mebuki-securities · okasan-sg · aizawa-sg · iwai-cosmo-hd
• smbc-nikko · mizuho-securities · mufg-mums · daiwa-sg · nomura-hd
• nishi-nippon-fhd · kyushu-fg · hirogin-hd
• jsda · regional-bank-consolidation-pattern · INDEX
• securities-firms INDEX

Sources

• FFG 証券 公式サイト (https://www.ffg-sec.co.jp/)
• FFG 証券 会社概要（創業 1940-06-06、設立 1944-07-07、資本金 30 億円、役職員 279 名(2025-04-01)、本社 福岡市中央区天神二丁目 13 番 1 号 福岡銀行本店ビル 9 階。旧 前田証券 → 2012-04 ふくおか証券 → 2018-05「FFG 証券」へ商号変更）https://www.ffg-sec.co.jp/company/corporate/
• FFG 証券について（「2022年4月からふくおかフィナンシャルグループ100％子会社となりました。…ＦＦＧグループの唯一の証券機能として」= FFG 直接 100% 子会社、2026-05-30 公式サイトで確認）https://www.ffg-sec.co.jp/company/
• ふくおか FG 公式 IR (https://www.fukuoka-fg.com/)
• FSA 金融商品取引業者一覧 (https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/kinyushohin.pdf, 第一種金融商品取引業者)
• 日本証券業協会 (https://www.jsda.or.jp/, 協会員名簿)
• Wikipedia: FFG 証券 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFG証券 — 沿革（前田証券 → ふくおか証券 → FFG 証券）。注: Wikipedia の「主要株主 福岡銀行 100%」表記は 2022-04 移管前の旧情報で、公式サイトでは現在 FFG 直接 100%（2026-05-30 確認）
• Wikipedia: ふくおかフィナンシャルグループ (2026-05-24 抽出)

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[!info] Verification status confidence: likely (FG securities-subsidiary anchor created 2026-05-24; 2026-05-30 parent company / head office / establishment re-confirmed on the official site). The fukuoka-fg page covers holding-company strategy, and this page covers the securities-subsidiary operating boundary. The company overview (founded 1940-06-06 / established 1944-07-07 / capital 30 億円 / officers and employees 279 名) and “a direct 100% subsidiary of FFG from 2022-04 “ are confirmed on the official site (ffg-sec.co.jp). Corrections (2026-05-30): (1) corrected the frontmatter official-site URL from ffg-sec.com → ffg-sec.co.jp, (2) corrected the head-office address from Tenjin 2-14-2 → 13 Tenjin 2-chome 1 号, (3) clarified the parent’s shareholding relationship as “a direct 100% subsidiary of FFG from 2022-04 (before that a 100% subsidiary of Fukuoka Bank).” Because Wikipedia’s “Fukuoka Bank 100%” is pre-transfer old information, the direct holding stated on the official site is adopted. Because it is an unlisted wholly-owned subsidiary, precise standalone financial KPIs are not separately disclosed; refer to the parent fukuoka-fg annual securities report segment information.