The Gunma Bank has fixed the next procedural step in its planned combination with Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group: shareholders on record as of September 30, 2026 will be the ones eligible to vote on the deal at an extraordinary general meeting scheduled for December 23. The bank's board approved the record date at a meeting held August 26.
The vote itself will decide whether to ratify the share-exchange contract underpinning the management integration that Gunma Bank and Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group agreed in final form on March 26, 2026. Gunma Bank said it will formally announce the meeting venue and the complete slate of resolutions once those details are settled.
Public notice of the record date is due September 11, via electronic disclosure on the bank's investor relations site rather than a newspaper filing. For shareholders, the practical takeaway is a calendar, not a conclusion: buy or sell activity after September 30 will not affect voting rights at the December meeting, and the integration itself still requires the shareholder approval that meeting is designed to secure.
The filing does not disclose exchange ratios, new-entity naming, or a target closing date beyond the vote itself. Those specifics, along with confirmation of where the meeting will be held, are still to come.