The Corporate Banking Department 1 (CBDA1) is the department that provides services to subsidiaries of Japanese and Asian customers. Their businesses include auto related manufacturing, machinery and electronic device manufacturing, trading companies, transportation companies, mining companies, retail companies, real estate companies and many other businesses.

As shown on the map, CBDA-1 services our customers located all over the Americas through business offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Toronto and Sao Paulo.

Our customers’ businesses are expanding in many areas, including natural resources and infrastructure-related industries, as well as through merger and acquisition activities. To support our customer’s growing needs, CBDA1 is strengthening its internal global cooperation systems throughout the bank, but particularly with our Asian corporate and Latin America desks.

For many years CBDA-1 has been providing the best solutions, best advice and best market information to help meet the business needs and solve the problems faced by Japanese and Asian corporations operating in Americas markets. In response to the rapid and significant changes, CBDA-1 has developed a wide range of products that can help our customers with their new opportunities. Major products CBDA-1 has been providing our customer with other SMBC departments include the following:

• Corporate Loans (Revolving, Term and Syndicated facilities)
• Deposit (Checking Accounts, Time Deposits, etc.)
• Cash Management Services
• Foreign Exchange Transactions (Spot/Forward)
• Trade Finance
• Project Finance, Public Finance
• Derivatives (Interest Rate and Currency Swaps, Options, and Commodity Swaps)
• Lease Finance (in coordination with SMBC-LF, Inc.)
• Receivables Securitizations (in coordination with SMBC Nikko Securities)
• M&A Advisory (in coordination with SMBC Nikko Securities)