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The new commercial real estate team fills a gap in Nomura’s securitized products and private credit unit, said Gordon Sweely, the group’s global head.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 4, 2025
Nomura builds commercial real estate platform with senior hires from Barclays
The new commercial real estate team fills a long-standing gap in Nomura’s securitized products and private credit unit.
Japanese issuers are set to exceed $100 billion in bond issuance this year, marking a record in both dollars and euros, with companies surging into the primary debt market on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 2, 2025
Japanese companies near $100 billion milestone in global bond issuance
Nomura Holdings and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group have kicked off dollar bond sales in a week expected to be among the busiest of the year for global debt offerings.
Nomura Holdings will require employees in Japan to spend two days a week in the office, double the current requirement.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 26, 2025
Nomura doubles minimum work-from-office requirement in Japan
The change is scheduled to take effect in spring next year, putting staff in Japan on par with Nomura’s global employees.
The Japan Securities Dealers Association and Japan Exchange Group are discussing ways to prevent a banned trade known as spoofing, after Nomura Holdings joined a list of brokerages fined for manipulating the instruments.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2025
Japan considers tighter oversight to avoid bond market ‘spoofing’
Spoofing involves placing fake orders to give market participants a false impression about supply and demand to make profitable trades.
A stock board in Tokyo on Wednesday
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 25, 2025
SmartNews planning to hire Mitsubishi UFJ and Nomura for Tokyo listing
The popular Japanese news aggregation app, valued at $2 billion in 2021, may list in Tokyo as early as next year.
Nomura Holdings shareholders have voted down a name change plan following a pair of scandals at the company.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 24, 2025
Nomura shareholders reject proposal to change company name
Investors also voted in favor of retaining CEO Kentaro Okuda and Chairman Koji Nagai as board members, the company said on its website.
Nomura Holdings Chief Executive Officer Kentaro Okuda
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2025
Nomura CEO’s pay more than doubles after profit hits record
Kentaro Okuda’s compensation rose to ¥1.208 billion ($8.2 million) in the year ended March 31, from ¥506 million a year earlier.
Nomura Holdings shuffles its leadership in its currencies and emerging markets trading business following the departure of the unit’s co-head Nagaraj Pangal.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2025
Nomura shuffles leadership in trading units after second exit in nine months
The business has been suffering from a series of high-profile exits, and on one team as of January at least eight traders had left or gone on leave in the prior 12 months.
An industrial park in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China. Nomura Holdings plans to shut its branch in the province by the end of the year, according to sources.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2025
Nomura to shut branch in China as it scales back wealth business
The company’s brokerage subsidiary plans to shut its branch in Zhejiang province by the end of the year.
Nomura Holdings predicts the dollar to trade around ¥136 by the end of September, against around ¥145 currently.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 8, 2025
Nomura flags risk of sharp yen rally on U.S.-Japan policy pressure
The investment bank, among Japan’s largest, now recommends shorting the greenback versus the yen, targeting a move in the pair to ¥136 by the end of September.
Nomura aims to reduce the smoking rate among its more than 14,000 employees in Japan to 12% by March 2026.
JAPAN
May 30, 2025
Nomura’s smoking ban leads to less staff lighting up
Close to 15% of staff at Japan’s largest brokerage were smokers in the fiscal year ended March 2024, down from 21.4% as of March 2018.
Nomura is in expansion mode in U.S. markets despite wider sentiments that are more worried about U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies overshadowing global growth prospects.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 30, 2025
Nomura sees great opportunities to grow in U.S. despite turmoil
The firm plans to advance targets for its investment management and wholesale banking businesses by pursuing long-term growth in the Americas.
A shareholder of Nomura Holdings has made a proposal seeking to change the company’s name to Nomura Securities Group.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 28, 2025
Nomura faces rare vote on shareholder's proposal of a name change
The proposal seeks to change the company’s name to Nomura Securities Group, which its board opposes.
Compensation paid in the year that ended in March to Nomura Holdings' seven executive officers totaled ¥4.6 billion, up 3% from the previous year when there were eight such officers.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 23, 2025
Nomura raises top executives’ pay to highest in over a decade
Compensation paid in the year ended March to the company’s seven executive officers totaled ¥4.6 billion.
SMBC Nikko Securities hired former Nomura Holdings senior executive Susumu Usui as co-head of equity and ex-Citigroup’s Keita Matsumoto as head of financial markets.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 7, 2025
SMBC Nikko hires former Nomura and Citi top executives in rebuild
The firm is seeking to strengthen its business following the rigging scandal more than two years ago, which led to the loss of several equity executives.
A branch of Nomura Securities, a unit of Nomura Holdings, in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 30, 2025
Nomura’s China losses narrow as brokerage seeks turnaround
The China unit has been undergoing an overhaul after its initial ambition to grow its wealth management business veered off track during the pandemic.
Net income at Daiwa Securities Group tumbled 24% year-on-year to ¥30 billion ($208 million) in the three months ended March 31.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 29, 2025
Japanese brokerages struggled with volatility even before tariffs
Net income at Daiwa tumbled 24% year-on-year to ¥30 billion ($208 million) in the three months ended March 31, marking the first decline in eight quarters.
Fees from dealmaking also helped net income climb 27% from a year earlier to ¥72 billion ($501 million) in the three months ended March 31, Nomura said in a statement Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2025
Nomura profit beats estimates on equity trading and dealmaking
The result caps a record year of profits, helped by robust trading and dealmaking and a resurgence in investing by Japanese individuals.
Nomura is looking to deepen its foothold in its traditional Wall Street businesses by weighing a return to offering cash prime-brokerage services in the United States and Europe.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2025
Nomura weighs return to prime brokerage four years after Archegos
Prime brokerage, which involves banks lending cash and securities to hedge funds, has become an increasing money maker for Wall Street in recent years due to high equities prices.
Nomura Holdings is seeking to build scale in the U.S. asset management market despite recent volatility caused by escalating trade tensions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 23, 2025
Nomura bets big on U.S. market rebound with $1.8 billion deal
Nomura's executive officer said the latest disruptions don’t change the fact the U.S. remains the largest asset management market in the world.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering
Foreign tourists visit a park near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in August.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Musk voices support for anti-immigration rally in Japan
Elon Musk has voiced support for anti-immigration protest in Japan, where a "Japanese First" party saw gains in recent elections.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Why Stalin didn’t invade Hokkaido still largely unknown, 80 years after WWII
During a survey to collect the remains of victims from the Taito Maru, one of the vessels involved in the Three Ships Incident, a metal helmet was found near the stern of the vessel on Aug. 5, 1984, at Rumoi Port. No human remains were discovered.
More sweltering days forecast for September after hottest summer on record
By the end of August, 8,341 people had been transported by ambulance for heatstroke in Tokyo alone.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.

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