NOMURA GROUP

Nomura Group is controlled by Nomura Holdings, Inc., a Japanese

financial holding company, with controlling stakes in its various group
companies that provides investment, financing and related services to
individual, institutional and government customers on a global basis with
an emphasis on securities businesses.
HISTORY:
The flagship company of Nomura group is Nomura Securities Co.
Ltd. (herein after referred to as NSC). It was started in Osaka on
December 25, 1925 as a spin-off from Securities Dept. of Osaka Nomura
Bank Co. Ltd (the present day Resona Bank). It was named after its
founder Tokushichi Nomura II. It is the oldest brokerage firm in Japan .
On October 1, 2001 Nomura adopted a holding company structure and
Nomura Holdings, Inc. was established and NSC became its wholly
owned subsidiary. Nomura made most of its profits in the Japanese retail
banking market, but has expanded its international investment banking
capabilities. Instinet Incorporated was acquired in February 2007.
In October 2008, Nomura acquired most of Lehman Brothers
Asian operations together with its European equities and investment
banking units to make one of the world's largest independent investment
banks with Y 20,300bn (138bn) assets under management. In April 2009,
the global headquarters for investment banking was moved out of Tokyo
to London as part of a strategy to move the company's focus from Japan
to global markets.
PROFILE :
Website
http://www.nomura.com

Type
Public
Company

Founded
1925

Headquarters
1-9-1 Nihonbashi Chuo-ku Tokyo,103-8645 Japan
Regional Headquarters: at Hongkong, London and New York
Company Size
10,001+ employees

Group CEO
Koji Nagai,

EXECUTIVES:

Koji Nagai CEO/Representative Exec Ofcr

Atsushi Yoshikawa President/COO

Shigesuke Kashiwagi CFO/Exec Managing Director

Masahide Nakamura Co-CIO/Senior Managing Dir

Naohiro Sako Co-CIO/Senior Managing Dir

OPERATIONS:
Nomura group basically provides its services in retail,
management, Wholesale (global markets and investment banking).

asset

SUBSIDIARIES AND GROUP COMPANIES: Its main company, NSC plays

the central role in the Group's core securities business. As the leading
securities and investment banking company in Japan, they provide
individual investors and corporate clients with a broad range of services,
including investment advisory services and securities underwriting. They
provide individual clients with wealth management services meeting their
individual long-term needs and risk tolerance. This group provides other
variety of services through Nomura Home Trade, the Nomura Call Center,
and other IT-related customer services. They provide corporate clients
with a wide array of specialized services based on our strong research and
solution-delivering capabilities. These include investment management
support for institutional investors, M&A financial advisory services for
raising company shareholder value, and underwriting stock and bond
issues to procure funds from the capital markets.
Its operations are divided into three regional areas, America, AsiaPacific and Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA).
FINANCIAL POSITION: Nomura maintains a robust financial position and
a healthy balance sheet. As of the end of March 2015, Nomura had total
assets of 41.8 trillion yen and shareholders equity of 2.7 trillion yen.
Nomura Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated entities (Nomura) reported
net revenue of 1,604.2 billion yen for the fiscal year ended March 31,
2015, an increase of 3.0% from the previous year. Non-interest expenses
increased by 5.2% from the previous year to 1,257.4 billion yen this year.
Income before income taxes was 346.8 billion yen and Net income
attributable to NHI shareholders was 224.8 billion yen for the fiscal year
ended March 31, 2015. Nomura this year has declared a year-end dividend
of 13 yen per share to shareholders of record as of March 31, 2015.
COMPETITORS:
Nomura competes with global Investment Banks, such as Goldman Sachs
Group (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS).Apart from above global competitors,

Japan has 5 major "city banks" (aka money-center banks that have global
operations), 110 regional banks, and 15 local banks. Nomura competes
with the investment banking division of Mitsubishi, which is the largest of
the city banks in terms of assets with 190 trillion in total assets. Other
city banks include Mitsui (MITSY), and Mizuho Financial Group (MFG).
CSR Activity
In March 2010, the Group formulated For Future Generations as a fundamental
guideline to be shared among all of our Executive Officers and employees globally for its
approach to CSR. In Nomura Group, CSR activities are conducted comprehensively in
collaboration with Group offices and companies in Japan, AEJ, EMEA, and the America