Trustee Savings Bank clear ground rules on ownership and accountability, neither of which was clear under former legislation. Airdrie Savings Bank refused to join the single entity, and remained the only independent such bank in the UK until it announced its closure in 2017. In 1984, TSB adopted an advertising slogan by which it is still generally remembered today: "The Bank That Likes To Say Yes". In 1986, the Central Trustee Savings Bank Limited was renamed TSB England and Wales plc and Trustee Savings Bank plc was renamed TSB Scotland plc. In 1986, the shares of TSB Group plc were floated on the
The Sakura Bank strong wholesale operation and western Japan presence. The merger created the world's third-largest banking group at the time, after Deutsche Bank and the pending merger that would form Mizuho Bank. Sakura Bank used the SWIFT code "MITKJPJT," derived from the "Mitsui Taiyo Kobe" name. The Sakura Bank The TKB-Mitsui merger, agreed in 1989 during the height of the Japanese asset price bubble, was to create the second largest bank in the world behind Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. While TKB had a large base of individual and small business customers, Mitsui had a complementary base of larger institutional clients. The merger was