Fukuoka Financial Group, Inc. is a Japanese multinational investment bank company that was formed in 2007 from the merger of the Fukuoka Bank and the Kumamoto Bank respectively. Based in Fukuoka, the company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Fukuoka Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 index. Nagasaki-based Eighteenth Bank was acquired by FFG in April 2019, following an earlier merger attempt in 2017. In October 2020, Eighteenth Bank was merged with the Shinwa Bank, another FFG subsidiary, to form Eighteenth Shinwa Bank, which operates as one of three FFG banking subsidiaries together with Fukuoka Bank and Kumamoto Bank. Wikipedia