User blog comment:DiegoAnime3000/Bane = White Fang Leader/@comment-5426254-20140712014454

You know, if there really is no logical explanation as to why Bane looks so damn much like Yatsuhashi, I'm going to cry foul. There has to be a reason, because based on past character designs, every character introduced so far have a unique design, which appears to be the character motif. "Bane" looks like more of a mid rank leader, around the same league as Adam. Like some people have said, the White Fang is a much larger organization than it seems, and there are many operations going on. Additionally, for the leader to reveal himself at this stage would be tactically suicidal, per se- he now has a much higher chance of getting caught if his masked appearance appears in public, instead of hiding in the shadows even more. Assuming that Bane and Yatsuhashi are the same person, he could have forged his transcripts to hide his credentials, just like Jaune (and Blake), and simply has a rare case of being older than he looks - like Levi from SNK/AOT or some of my family members. That may be one of the few plausible theories I can offer.