According to several real estate companies, Suruga Bank has restarted lending on investment properties. Two years have passed since the bank found itself at the center of questionable lending schemes that saw it providing finance to over 1,200 investors in a wide-spread share house investment scam. The scandal saw the bank slapped with a six month ban on investment lending by the Financial Services Agency.

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