SBI Shinsei Bank to pay back ¥100 billion in gov't bailout funds

Foreigners using this bank should be very careful since they have stopped the English operator assistance phone call services and have started cancelling some other popular English services. It seems like they are going backwards and looking at the declining Japanese population the banks actions doesn’t make sense. They should be increasing the English services to gain more foreign customers instead of reducing those. To make matters worse for this bank is the fact that most Japanese people won’t even become customers with this bank since their go to banks are Mizuho, MUFG or SMBC. Japan post bank is a good option for most people these days since it’s upcoming, stable and secure.

This bank is hopeless. So glad I closed.my account. No credit card option and they withdrew from the cirrus network. The final straw was a joke of a mortgage offer.

Move your cash elsewhere folks.

I still use this bank for some of my pension payments. The bank like all others is covered by government insurance for accounts up to ¥10 million.

I don’t know if you are allowed to say names but the bank with the same name as the people who make PlayStation seem to have taken over the English market Shinsei had.

Closed my Shinsei account once they stopped doing transfers overseas years back.