# Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group founding date entity: /record/sumitomo-mitsui-financial.md predicate: founded page: /record/sumitomo-mitsui-financial/founded as_of: 2026-11-13 cite: AsOf. "Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group founded: 2002-12-02", as of 2002-12-02. Claim clm_6266928436CB, https://asof.is/claim/clm_6266928436CB, accessed 2026-11-13. Source: https://www.smfg.co.jp/english/investor/faq/smfg_about.html. As of November 13, 2026, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's founding date on the AsOf record is December 2, 2002, dated December 2, 2002, from a primary source (smfg.co.jp). 1 claim on Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's founding date, 1 open and 0 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted. ## Current founding date What the record asserts on 2026-11-13. - [Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group](/record/sumitomo-mitsui-financial.md) | founded | 2002-12-02 | valid 2002-12-02 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_6266928436CB](/claim/clm_6266928436CB.md) sources: https://www.smfg.co.jp/english/investor/faq/smfg_about.html ## Every dated value One claim per line, oldest first. Superseded claims stay visible. - [Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group](/record/sumitomo-mitsui-financial.md) | founded | 2002-12-02 | valid 2002-12-02 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_6266928436CB](/claim/clm_6266928436CB.md) sources: https://www.smfg.co.jp/english/investor/faq/smfg_about.html ## Questions this record answers ### What is Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's current founding date? December 2, 2002, dated December 2, 2002, from a primary source (smfg.co.jp). The record asserts this claim as of November 13, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.95). ## Read on - This page: /record/sumitomo-mitsui-financial/founded (markdown: /record/sumitomo-mitsui-financial/founded.md) - Entity twin: /record/sumitomo-mitsui-financial.md ยท timeline: /timelines/sumitomo-mitsui-financial.md - Every company's founding date: /facts/founded.md --- AsOf is a temporal fact ledger: a structured, dated, sourced record of what is true and what changed, built for AI retrieval.