Risk Management Initiatives

The purpose of Seven Bank’s risk management is to ensure healthy and effi cient management as aiming at an improvement in corporate value by appropriately managing various kinds of risks related to management.

Every fiscal year, the Board of Directors establishes the “Basic Policy on Risk Control,” which specifi es the overall risk management policy, specifi c risk management policies and the organization and system for risk management. In accordance with this policy, the Executive Committee establishes detailed rules and regulations related to risk management and confi rms the Companywide risk status every quarter. The Bank’s risk management structure includes the Risk Management Division, which is responsible for supervising overall risk management activities, specifi c risk management divisions and the Internal Audit Division to perform internal audits. We have also established the Risk Management Committee and the Security Committee, chaired by the officer in charge of the Risk Management Division, and the Asset-Liability Management (ALM) Committee, chaired by the offi cer in charge of the Planning Division, as advisory bodies to the Executive Committee concerning risk management.

The Bank observes its basic policies relating to overall risk management, which are governed by the Basic Policy on Risk Control and Overall Risk Management Rules, established under the policy. We gain an over all grasp of our risks including climate changes by assessing each of the Bank’s risk categories and manage them by comparing them with our equity.

Currently, our risk management activities relating to credit risk are limited to the ATM settlement business, the ALM of interbank deposits placed with top-rated partner fi nancial institutions, bonds, the lending of funds in the call-money market, temporary ATM payment amounts due and small personal loans, to minimize credit risk. In addition, the Bank performs self-assessment of asset quality as appropriate and establishes an allowance for credit losses in accordance with its self-assessment and reserve rules.

It is stipulated that the limits on the maximum level of funds at risk, the market position limits and the loss allowance limits shall be set. The Risk Management Division measures and monitors market risk on a daily basis in light of these limits and reports the results to management, including the Executive Committee. At the ALM Committee meeting held every quarter, the Bank’s market risk position, expected trends in interest rates and other matters are reported and the policy for the ALM operation is determined.

It is stipulated that the limits regarding the cash gaps arising from differences between the period of the management of invested funds and the timing of the liquidation shall be set. The Risk Management Division measures and monitors liquidity risk on a daily basis in light of these limits and reports the results to management, including the Executive Committee. To prepare for emergency events requiring immediate funding, the Bank has devised preemptive comprehensive countermeasures to be able to take quick and fl exible Companywide action by risk scenario, and therefore does not expect to experience a major liquidity problem.

Recognizing that operational risks may come to the surface in all business divisions, the Bank has established the structure to identify, evaluate, monitor, control, and reduce risks. Risk categories are as follows.

With the further progression of IT, occurrence of unauthorized access events and increasing information security risks making it necessary to ensure cybersecurity, we established the dedicated team of the cyber security management in fi scal 2020 in order to protect the Group’s information assets such as customer information from various threats. We established Cybersecurity Risk Rules and hold Security Committee meetings at least once in the quarterly period to discuss effective security measures.

The dedicated team for the cyber security management is in charge of the Bank-wide management of cybersecurity risks, composed of members from multiple divisions. The team widely responds to attacks to the Bank’s systems, including cyber attacks, skimming, fake cards, unauthorized access, and information leakage.
Believing the balanced combination of human resources, mechanism, and technology is necessary to maintain security, the Bank is working on each of them.

To fulfill our social responsibility as a bank, Seven Bank has defined the following three operations as top priorities for continuity in the event of a disaster, large-scale accident, or other crisis: the ATM business; the fund settlement business serving banks and ATM partners; and withdrawals from the Bank’s accounts and money transfer operations. Each division has also created a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to enable continuity of these essential operations in the event of an accident, disaster, or other crisis. To further ensure the business continuity, each division regularly conducts the business continuity training, envisioning damage to data centers and other facilities.