Specialty
Financing
Unlocking the Future
We are developing unique and viable businesses based on sophisticated expertise for a variety of products.
Specialty Financing
Driving Tokyo Century’s growth through business development leveraging a high level of expertise
- Segment Assets
- ¥ 2,743.5 billion
- Distribution of Segment Assets
- 51 %
- Ordinary Income
- ¥ 57.4 billion
*As of March 31, 2023 (Including Environmental Infrastructure)
Strengths
This segment’s strength is in mutually complementary services and diversifying market risks through multiple offerings,
including ships, aircraft, real estate, principal investments, and structured finance.
In each of these service areas, highly specialized personnel collaborate with a wide variety of prime partners
to maximize the supply chain and provide high-value-added services.
Together with our partners and customers, we will create and grow unprecedented businesses to realize a decarbonized society.
Opportunities
- Establishing new technologies such as AI, DX, and smart robotics, and expansion of business fields
- Capturing commercial opportunities associated with the transition to a decarbonized society
- Increasing opportunities in light of current corporate restructuring and carve-out trends
- Acquiring highly skilled human resources in response to the growing mobility of human resources
Risks
- Shrinking domestic market and labor force for products due to population decline
- Earnings under pressure and sluggish consumption due to rising interest rates and resource prices
- Changes in the environment due to manifested and increased geopolitical risks
- Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer,
- President, Specialty Finance Business Development Unit
Mahoko Hara
Serving as a Hub in a Connected Society
In the Specialty Financing segment, we are expanding by creating new businesses through co-creation with prime partners and developing highly specialized human resources based on our high level of expertise in each product and the Group’s comprehensive strengths.
Our business environment is undergoing major change, including due to the protracted COVID-19 pandemic and the prolonged Russia-Ukraine war, the global economy, and the response to climate change issues.
New Investments and Business Participation in ESG and the SDGs, and Progress in Major Real Estate Projects
In fiscal 2022, the Specialty Financing segment achieved remarkable progress in its real estate and principal investment businesses.
In May 2022, we invested in PowerX, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of electric carriers, storage batteries, and other products that are attracting attention for promoting and expanding offshore wind power generation. We will pursue business synergies with PowerX, which envisions a storage battery platform business and an electric carrier business to contribute to our goal of creating an environmentally sound, sustainable economy and society.
Major Offerings
Real Estate
We engage with prime partners in large-scale investment development of domestic offices and hotels and overseas data centers, as well as leasing of real estate such as logistics and commercial facilities in Japan.
Related Services
Structured Finance
We deliver tailor-made solutions to meet diverse customer demand, including off-balance sheet and cash flow improvement needs. We also serve as an incubator in the Specialty Financing segment.
Principal Investments
We promote co-investment with our strategic partner Advantage Partners, Inc. Focus areas include carve-outs of large companies, renewable energy, and business succession for owner-operated companies.
Aviation
Solutions are offered for the entire aircraft life cycle, from aircraft leasing through our wholly owned subsidiary Aviation Capital Group (ACG) to engine leasing, financing, and sales of used airframes and parts.
Shipping
We deliver a wide range of products, including loans and leases to finance the vessel construction and purchase. We also focus on business with our own ships, mainly bulk carriers.
Key Figures
Number of Aircraft Owned, Managed,
and Committed
(Including ACG)
476*1
Managed Hotel Brands
3 brands *2
- *1As of September 30, 2022
- *2Includes the Dorchester Collection, scheduled to open in 2028 and will be in Torch Tower (TOKYO TORCH district in front of the Nihonbashi Exit of Tokyo Station).
Legendary-Luxury Brand Dorchester Collection Will Open Its Hotel in TOKYO TORCH, Japan’s New Landmark Beckoning the World
Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. and Tokyo Century Corporation announced that Dorchester Collection, one of the world’s leading luxury brands, has been selected to manage the hotel within Torch Tower, the highest building in Japan, in the TOKYO TORCH district in front of the Nihonbashi Exit of Tokyo Station. The hotel is scheduled to open in 2028.
TOKYO TORCH aims to become a “core of urban tourism” as the gateway to Tokyo and Japan, and the hotel is one of its key components. Located on the upper floors of the nation’s tallest Torch Tower, the hotel offers a panoramic view of Tokyo Bay and the city center and sweeping vistas stretching from the forest in the heart of the city to Mt. Fuji beyond. By combining these aspects with Dorchester Collection, which has carved its name in the history and culture of many parts of the world, the aim will be to create the only worldview with TOKYO TORCH and a true luxury area in Tokyo and Japan that can be experienced nowhere else.
