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Major Japanese banks are competing for a slice of inherited savings worth nearly 60 trillion yen that are expected to flow out of regional lenders over the next 30 years.
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Japan's big cities become magnets for inherited rural savings

Trend leaves key regional 'shinkin' lenders in tight spot

KENSUKE YUASA and SORA KITAJIMA, Nikkei staff writers | Japan

TOKYO -- Major Japanese banks are vying for an estimated 58 trillion yen ($377 billion) in inherited bank deposits that are expected to move out of regional lenders over the next 30 years. Large money-center banks are eager to expand their deposit bases as interest rates begin to rise again, but their efforts could deal a serious blow to their much smaller rural rivals.

"We now offer a higher interest rate to those depositing their inherited money in our time deposits," said an executive at a credit association, also known as a shinkin bank, in Nara prefecture. "We are trying to make sure the money does not go to megabanks."

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