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 Headquarters inChuo, Tokyo | |
Native name | 野村ホールディングス株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Nomura Hōrudingusu kabushiki-gaisha |
| Formerly | The Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (1925-2001) |
| Company type | PublicKK |
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| Founded | 25 December 1925; 99 years ago (1925-12-25) inOsaka, Japan |
| Headquarters | 1-9-1,Nihonbashi,, |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Services | |
| Revenue |  ¥1.56 trillion (2024)[1] |
| ¥273.9 billion (2024)[1] | |
| ¥165.9 billion (2024)[1] | |
| AUM | ¥89.0 trillion (2024)[1] |
| Total assets | ¥55.1 trillion (2024)[1] |
| Total equity | ¥3.35 trillion (2024)[1] |
Number of employees | 26,850 (2024)[1] |
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| Website | nomura.com |
Nomura Holdings, Inc.[a] is a Japanesefinancialholding company and a principal member of the Nomura Group, which isJapan's largestinvestment bank andbrokerage group.[2] It, along with itsbroker-dealer, banking and other financial services subsidiaries, provides investment, financing and related services to individual, institutional, and government customers on a global basis with an emphasis on securities businesses.[3]
The history of Nomura began on December 25, 1925, whenNomura Securities Co., Ltd. (NSC) was established inOsaka, as a spin-off from Securities Dept. of Osaka Nomura Bank Co., Ltd (the present dayResona Bank). NSC initially focused on thebond market.[4][5][6] It was named after its founderTokushichi Nomura II, a wealthy Japanese businessman and investor. He had earlier established Osaka Nomura bank in 1918, based on theMitsui zaibatsu model with a capital of ¥10 million.[7] Like the majority ofJapaneseconglomerates, orzaibatsu, its origins were inOsaka, but today operates out of Tokyo. NSC gained the authority to trade stock in 1938, and went public in 1961.
In October 2008, Nomura acquired most ofLehman Brothers' Asian operations together with its European equities and investment banking units to make one of the world's largest independent investment banks with ¥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, with Josh Tokley appointed Head of UK Investments. Following his subsequent suspension, Tokley was replaced by Michael Coombs.
Nomura paid $225 million for the purchase of Lehman's Asia-Pacific unit.[8] Due to large losses with shares dropping to their lowest level in nearly 37 years, Nomura cut around 5 percent of its staff in Europe (as many as 500 people) in mid-September 2011.[9]
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In December 2019, Nomura announced that it would acquire Greentech Capital Advisors, aboutique investment bank with stated aims of assisting clients across sustainable technology and infrastructure. The transaction is expected to close on March 31, 2020.[10]
Greentech will be rebranded to "Nomura Greentech" and will form part of their Investment Banking franchise in the U.S.[10]
In April 2025, Nomura agreed to acquireMacquarie's U.S. and European public asset management business in a $1.8 billion all-cash deal.[11] As a result, Nomura's investment management division will take on roughly $180 billion in new assets across equities, fixed income and multi-asset strategies, for a total of approximately $770 billion in total assets under management (AUM). Expected to close by the end of 2025, the acquisition represents Nomura's largest international expansion since 2008, when it bought Lehman Brothers' Asian and European assets.
The marketing slogan of Nomura is "Connecting Markets East & West".[12]
Nomura Holdings, Inc. is theholding company of theNomura Group and the group's principal member.[13][14] As akeiretsu, Nomura Holdings, Inc. does not directly run member companies, rather it keeps a controlling stake of cross shareholdings and manages financial assistance among member companies which help to deflect hostile takeovers.
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Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. is a Japanesefinancial services company and awholly owned subsidiary ofNomura Holdings, Inc. (NHI), which forms part of theNomura Group. It plays a central role in thesecurities business, the group's core business. Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based inTokyo,Japan, with regional headquarters inHong Kong,London, andNew York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide; it is known as Nomura Securities International in the US, and Nomura International plc. inEMEA. It operates through five business divisions: retail (in Japan), global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management.
Established December 25, 1925 inOsaka, it is the oldest brokerage firm in Japan. It is named after its founderTokushichi Nomura II, a wealthy Japanese businessman and investor.
Nomura was founded by Tokushichi Nomura, father of Nomura Securities founderTokushichi Nomura II as amoney changing business.[18] This was just before theMeiji Restoration, the move to setting up a bank was a logical extension and progression of this business as times changed. Changes included the founding of stock exchanges in Tokyo and Osaka as the country became industrialised. Key amongst these changes was the Japanese government's decision to issue foreign currency denominated public bonds to fund theRusso-Japanese War; Nomura employed English speaking staff so that they could take on this international business.
By 1906 Nomura had founded an in-house research department headed up by former Osaka newspaper journalist Kisaku Hashimoto.[19] This was responsible for publishing the Osaka Nomura Business News with trading news, stock analysis and current economic trends. Research combined with a substantial newspaper advertising campaign helped raise the profile of Nomura. By 1917, Nomura had gone public and soon after Osaka Nomura Bank (the present dayResona Bank) was set up, within this business there was a securities section to handle bond sales and underwriting.[18]
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