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Nomura Holdings Inc

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Nomura hails progress in weaning staff off smoking

    Japan’s biggest bank says it has cut proportion of smokers to just under 15%

    Signage for Nomura outside the company’s head office in Tokyo
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Nomura profits rise 27% amid wild trading under Trump

    Revenues from equity services ‘up steeply’ in US due to market volatility

    A screen displaying the Nikkei 225 Stock Average at a branch of Nomura
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Nomura’s top banker says traders’ ability to go ‘max risk’ is now higher

    Christopher Willcox says ‘basic’ changes have increased the group’s control over risk in wake of $2.9bn Archegos debacle

    Christopher Willcox stands in front of a red artwork at Nomura’s Tokyo headquarters
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Nomura to buy Macquarie asset management units in its biggest deal since Lehman

    Japanese bank seeks growth in US and Europe with $1.8bn acquisition

    People walk outside a Nomura bank
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    Scandal of attempted murder shakes Nomura’s doorstep sales army

    Violence against elderly couple comes as Japanese bank tries to convince customers to invest in riskier assets

    Kentaro Okuda
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Lex
    Restoring Nomura’s credibility will take more than pay cuts Premium content

    Taint of latest scandal overshadows bank’s growing earnings and could have long-lasting consequences

    Nomura chief Kentaro Okuda, second left, and other executives bow at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Nomura chief apologises after ex-banker charged with trying to murder clients

    Former wealth management staff arrested after allegedly setting customers’ house on fire

    Nomura chief executive Kentaro Okuda speaks at a press conference
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Nomura profits surge as chief takes pay cut over trading scandal

    Japan’s biggest investment bank and brokerage beats expectations but is still dogged by controversy

    Kentaro Okuda, President and CEO of Nomura Holdings Inc., gestures while speaking during an interview.
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Seven & i Holdings Co Ltd
    7-Eleven owner taps Nomura to advise on takeover battle after rejecting $39bn offer

    Circle K parent Alimentation Couche-Tard says it is focused on securing deal with Seven & i

    A Circle K store next to a 7-Eleven in Hong Kong
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    European economy
    Wave of shipping inflation could complicate rate cuts, economists warn

    Rise in freight costs could drive up the price of goods, slowing progress on disinflation

    A container ship sails through the Suez Canal
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    Nomura seeks global acquisitions to expand wealth management business

    Chief of Japan’s biggest brokerage and investment bank says he expects a generational shift with savers becoming more adventurous

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Lex
    Nomura’s record payday will not change Japan’s pay culture Premium content

    Country has an unspoken limit on how high banker pay can go before sparking public disapproval

    A pedestrian walks past Nomura signage outside its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Nomura hands British banker record $12mn pay award

    Christopher Willcox earned over 3 times the amount made by the Japanese bank’s chief executive

    Christopher Willcox
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Nomura profits soar as Japan’s stock market breaks bubble-era record

    Investment bank and brokerage boosted by surging stock and fixed-income trading

    Nomura chief Kentaro Okuda
  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    Baring Asset Management Ltd
    Barings sues Nomura-backed private credit firm over ‘one of largest corporate raids’ in years

    MassMutual arm files for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction after 20 employees defect

    Nomura Securities Co. headquarters building in Tokyo
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japanese brokers highlight ‘Trump trades’ for stocks

    More US-China decoupling in focus for investors as Tokyo market closes in on all-time high

    Staff at a trading company in Tokyo watch a live broadcast of Donald Trump speaking during election night in the US in November 2020
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    Nomura hires former top UK Treasury official Tom Scholar as European chair

    Senior civil servant controversially fired when Liz Truss became PM last year joins Japan’s biggest investment bank

    Tom Scholar
  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
    Markets
    Charlie McElligott, meat-powered market mystic

    Catching up with Wall Street’s most wired analyst

  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Nomura overhauls China joint venture as losses mount

    Global investment banks have struggled to make a profit in the country

    A pedestrian wearing a mask walks past the Nomura sign outside its headquarters in Tokyo
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Chinese business & finance
    Senior Nomura banker barred from leaving mainland China

    Exit ban on Charles Wang Zhonghe will send chill through foreign business circles

    Hong Kong-based banker Charles Wang Zhonghe in Beijing in 2010
  • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
    Mental health
    Workplace wellbeing: how to make it better — and what makes it worse

    New research shows work-related stress and health issues are rising, but flexibility and support from managers can help

    Illustration of an desk, with several people sat in an office working at laptops on one side, while on the other side sits a person working from home
  • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
    Lex
    Nomura: loyal shareholders turn blind eye to falling earnings Premium content

    Japanese bank should avoid pushing investors too far after plunge in net income

    Pedestrians walk past a Nomura branch in Tokyo, Japan
  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    InterviewMergers & Acquisitions
    Nomura co-head of investment banking foresees huge rise in ESG dealmaking

    The bank’s acquisition of M&A boutique Greentech is central to its growth and sustainability strategy

  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
    Samsung’s subdued profits reflect fading pandemic electronics surge

    Shares gain as investors bet that low consumer demand has already been priced in

    A picture of the Samsung Electronics logo in Seoul
  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    InterviewJapanese business & finance
    Nomura chief predicts weak yen will kick off foreign M&A wave

    Kentaro Okuda says rate rises and Toshiba privatisation will usher in ‘paradigm shift’ for corporate Japan

    Kentaro Okuda, chief executive of Nomura
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