作者： bankr

およそ2400万の口座をもつ「みずほ銀行」は、新年度中に原則、預金通帳をスマートフォンなどで記録を見られるデジタル通帳とする方針です。これでメガバンク３行が、すべてデジタル通帳への切り替えを進めることになります。

みずほ銀行は、新年度中に新しく預金口座を開設する人には原則、紙の通帳は発行せず、パソコンやスマホで残高や入金・出金の記録を見られるデジタル通帳を利用してもらう方針です。

みずほ銀行には、およそ2400万の個人の預金口座がありますが、紙の通帳の場合、印紙税や紙代、印刷代などで一つの口座につき年間およそ200円のコストがかかっています。

長引く低金利や、決済サービスに参入したＩＴ企業との競争など経営環境が厳しくなっているため、デジタル化によってコストを削減するねらいです。

ただ、新たに口座を開設する人でも希望すれば紙の通帳を発行するほか、すでに口座を持っている人も希望すればこれまでどおり紙の通帳を利用できるということです。

メガバンクでは三井住友銀行が４年前から三菱ＵＦＪ銀行が去年から、デジタル通帳を導入して紙の通帳からの切り替えを進めていて、金融サービスのデジタル化が一段と加速しそうです。

Asian banks are bracing for a rough ride in the coming six months as the coronavirus epidemic disrupts businesses across the region, likely prompting a spike in bad loans and ultimately dealing a blow to their bottom lines.
Lenders from DBS, Singapore’s biggest bank, to HSBC, the largest of three currency-issuing banks in Hong Kong, have warned in the past two weeks that they will have to set aside additional provisions for loan losses in the first quarter – a risk they say is short term and manageable.
China’s biggest banks are not scheduled to update their guidance for 2020 until next month, but credit ratings agency S&P Global Ratings has forecast that the peak questionable loan ratio for China’s 285 trillion yuan (US$40.5 trillion) banking sector “may almost double” in a worst-case scenario.
“We have also seen it can take years to restore standards in [non-performing loan] recognition, and in the quality of the financial statements, once such standards are loosened,” S&P analyst Ryan Tsang said in a research note. “We see a risk that companies may exploit relaxed standards to drag out repayments for years.”
HSBC, which counts Hong Kong as its largest market and has made a big bet on growth in the Greater Bay Area, said last week it expects about US$600 million of provisions for additional loan losses if the coronavirus outbreak drags on into the second half of the year – its worst-case scenario.
“There will be revenue impact, which will become progressively more acute, if the coronavirus was to continue beyond the next month to six weeks,” Ewan Stevenson, the HSBC chief financial officer, said on a conference call on February 18. “We think that the Q1 impact, as we sit here today, is probably rangebound in the order of about US$200 million to US$500 million relative to our previous planning assumptions.”