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Trust banks are unique among Japanese financial institutions in that they combine financing services with asset management services. In addition to providing conventional banking services like city banks, trust banks use their specialized knowledge effectively to provide a broad range of financial services, via such businesses as the trust and concurrent businesses, to accommodate the need for more diversified and sophisticated financial and asset management services. Japan' s" Big Bang" financial deregulation program is expected to speed up the pace of liberalization and deregulation of the financial sector. Amid the ongoing rapid pace of change in the environment that financial industry work in, trust banks are further strengthening their management base by enhancing efficiency and streamlining their business operations to attain sound development and thus make a positive contribution to the economy.
