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NOMURA

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 7, 2021
Nomura’s prime brokerage pullback deals blow to global ambitions
The retreat adds to a list of stumbles for the firm as it takes on global risk to offset slower growth at home.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 28, 2021
Nomura CEO paid $2.9 million in year capped by Archegos saga
Kentaro Okuda also received a u00a516 million housing allowance, according to an annual securities filing on Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2021
Nomura prime brokerage cuts seen sparing little in U.S. and Europe
Word of the retreat is already spreading on Wall Street, as some of Nomura's prime brokerage employees in New York start to explore other job opportunities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 25, 2021
Tokyo Games cancellation would cost Japan $17 billion, Nomura says
The Nomura Research Institute warned of an even bigger economic loss if a state of emergency is declared to cope with another spike in COVID-19 cases after the games have been held.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 12, 2021
Nomura raises profit target in recovery from Archegos blowup
Nomura Holdings Inc. raised its pretax income target for the financial year ending March 2023 by 14%, with the bulk of growth expected to come from its wholesale division as it moves on from the implosion of Archegos Capital Management.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2021
Japan's biggest brokerage Nomura to book ¥313 billion in Archegos losses
The firm has vowed to strengthen its risk management after being stung by the collapse of the U.S. family office capital management firm.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Apr 23, 2021
Archegos fiasco thwarts Nomura’s push to join Wall Street elite
Analysts have been left to wonder if heads will now roll over the Archegos losses or if the bank will quit certain businesses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 14, 2021
Nomura tightens hedge fund financing after Archegos collapse
The restrictions include curbing leverage for some clients previously granted exceptions to margin financing limits, one person familiar with the situation said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2021
Japanese regulators heightening scrutiny over high-risk trades after Archegos collapse
The Financial Services Agency and the Bank of Japan will scrutinize how financial institutions that incurred losses had been managing transaction risks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 3, 2021
Seduced by Archegos' growth, Nomura took a chance on Sung Kook Hwang comeback
Hwang's appetite for huge bets on technology, media and other company stocks in the United States and Asia proved too lucrative for Nomura to resist.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 31, 2021
Nomura CEO Kentaro Okuda’s honeymoon ends with $2 billion Archegos losses
The $2 billion claim on a single client risks largely erasing Nomura's pretax profits for the second half of the year, according to a Jefferies Financial Group report.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 29, 2021
Nomura’s loss warning said to be tied to Archegos selloff
Nomura said in a statement on Monday that the estimated amount of the claim against the U.S. client was about $2 billion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2021
Japanese female financial analysts urge change in male-dominated profession
With the gender gap still significant, women are calling for changes in the industry's punishing workstyle and an end to a deep-rooted bias.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 15, 2021
Nomura to expand structured finance in private markets push
A new team will look beyond stock offerings, corporate debt issuance and other more conventional areas of corporate finance to drive growth.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2020
Ad agency chief Sasaki gets creative control of Tokyo Games ceremonies
Organizers say the revamping of the ceremonies' creative planning team is necessary in order to create more speedy and efficient workflows.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 22, 2020
Nomura’s China venture is winning more clients than expected
The company's majority-owned securities joint venture in Shanghai has won more than 300 customers for services including wealth management.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 21, 2020
Japanese firms explore quantum cryptography to make stock trading secure
Toshiba Corp., NEC Corp. and Nomura Holdings Inc., among others, expect to put the technology into use in stock trading within several years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 3, 2020
Nomura's Asia hiring spree aims to boost wealth and fixed income
'We see the Asia region as becoming more and more important for the global economy,” said the firm's head of global markets for Asia excluding Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2020
Nomura to introduce permanent flexible work for Japan staff
The firm may introduce a minimum 40% of hours to be spent in the office each month, and departments would have discretion within that limit.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 28, 2020
Masters of their craft: Japanese artisans go abroad to preserve a cultural tradition
Three Japanese artisans fight to save traditional crafts in their adopted homeland
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.

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