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JapanFinance and insurance2024 – ongoing

The Miyazaki Bank

Generative AI drafting of loan approval memos

The Miyazaki Bank said generative AI cut loan approval memo writing time by 95% at the branches using it

In progressCompany's own claim

Problem

Branch staff wrote loan approval memos (稟議書) by hand, which took a lot of time for each lending case.

Approach

The bank built a generative AI system on a cloud platform with Nippon IBM, connected to Azure OpenAI Service. Development took about two months. Some branches began using it in April 2024, and the bank planned to extend it to all branches, improve accuracy and link data from subsystems.

Results

95%reduction in memo creation time versus manual work at branches using the system, as reported by the bankCompany's own claim[1]

Takeaway

The bank reported a large time saving from a partial rollout and had not yet extended the tool to every branch.

Categories

Business function
Finance, risk and legal
Innovation type
Process innovation
AI technology
Generative AI
Evidence
Company's own claim

Sources

Source summaries

[1]IT Leaders (Impress)13 Jun 2024

The article reported that the bank used generative AI to draft loan approval memos on Azure OpenAI Service, built with Nippon IBM. It said use began at some branches in April 2024 and cut creation time by 95 percent. The bank planned a rollout to all branches.

Full details are in the original sources.

Added 2 Nov 2026 · Updated 2 Nov 2026
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