Nishi-Nippon Financial Holdings, Inc. (TSE:7189) announces a share repurchase program. Under the program, the company will repurchase up to 2,000,000 shares, representing 1.28% of its share capital, for ¥2,000 million. The company will repurchase its shares in order to enhance returns to all shareholders, and improve capital efficiency. The share repurchase program will run until the last day of March 2018. As of December 31, 2017, the company had 155,965,100 shares outstanding (excluding treasury shares) and 23,631,855 shares in treasury.