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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2016
Mizuho seeks to challenge Nomura as nation's biggest equity firm
Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the mega-bank that added dozens of stock analysts and salesmen in the past year, is seeking to loosen Nomura Holdings Inc.'s stranglehold on the nation's potentially lucrative yet elusive retail brokerage business.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 21, 2016
Securities watchdog to step up scrutiny of insider trading in biotech sector
The securities watchdog will boost monitoring of health-care stocks for possible insider trading after increasing leaks of information that has the power to move markets, according to the top official of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2016
Fintech venture takes on hedge funds with earnings estimates derived from big data
A Japanese startup is entering the equity research business in a bid to challenge the dominance of securities firms by using computers to crunch vast troves of information and predict companies' earnings.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2016
Citigroup to exit Shin-Marunouchi Building next year to unite brokerage, banking divisions
Citigroup Inc. plans to move its Japan headquarters from Tokyo's Shin-Marunouchi Building to a new location nearby that will bring its brokerage and banking divisions together in the city's financial district.
BUSINESS
Aug 22, 2016
Nomura hunting investment bankers in U.S. after streamlining push
Nomura Holdings Inc. plans to hire bankers in the United States, resuming a push to boost investment banking in a market that remains a priority for Japan's biggest brokerage following a round of cost cuts.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 11, 2016
Standard Chartered establishes first brokerage in Japan with staff of 100
Standard Chartered Plc started its first brokerage business in Japan with 100 employees as institutional investors seek products from emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa for better returns.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 25, 2016
Nomura cuts executive pay to three-year low as Daiwa backs 9.2% increase
Nomura Holdings Inc. cut pay for its top executives by 18 percent to the lowest level in three years after profit at Japan's biggest brokerage slumped and losses abroad swelled.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2016
Nomura suffers net loss in fourth quarter, first in red since 2011
Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan's biggest brokerage, said it slid to its first quarterly net loss since 2011 as its wholesale division fell into the red, its retail division weakened and its overseas operations lost money for a sixth straight year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 18, 2016
Sumitomo Mitsui hires banking veteran Gelber to lead U.S. push
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has formed an investment-banking group in the United States, part of a push to expand its mergers advisory business even as competitors from Nomura Holdings Inc. to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. move to curtail costs.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 12, 2016
Nomura to shut down European equity business after years of losses, source says
Nomura Holdings Inc., the nation's largest brokerage, plans to shut down its European equity operations as it cuts costs after years of failing to become profitable overseas, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 15, 2016
Nomura to raise pay for 3,700 employees at Japan brokerage
Nomura Holdings Inc. will raise salaries for staff at its Japanese brokerage for a third year.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 28, 2016
Japan's financial watchdog queries brokerages on high-frequency trading, dark pools
Japan's financial watchdog has started examining high-frequency trading, algorithms and dark pools, asking brokers for information about the practices.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2015
BOJ dooms credit analysts as foreign banks let Tokyo posts lapse
Foreign brokerages are leaving credit analyst positions in Tokyo unfilled as record central bank bond-buying stimulus makes it hard for them to make profits.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 24, 2015
To Nomura, Fannie and Freddie are bright spot in struggle abroad
Nomura Holdings Inc. is doggedly expanding in a U.S. bond market that pays fees as low as 0.003 percent, even as it slashes its number of employees in London and one of its biggest shareholders says to get out of unprofitable overseas businesses.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2015
Alert raised after six universities, banks come under cyberattack
The websites of six Japanese universities were targeted in cyberattacks on Monday, prompting experts to warn that other academic institutions and companies should be on alert, NHK reported.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2015
Nomura terminates mortgage-bond traders amid market probes
Nomura Holdings Inc. has terminated two New York-based mortgage-bond traders for cause in connection with investigations of the market, according to regulatory records.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2015
Daiwa to reboot Asian expansion via stakes in brokerages
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. is seeking to buy stakes in Asian brokerages as Japan's second-biggest securities house resumes expansion in the region after an earlier effort faltered.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 18, 2015
SMBC Nikko targets Nomura with global investment banker hiring
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. is hiring staff at its investment banking unit as it competes with more established names such as Nomura Holdings Inc. for bond and share deals.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 12, 2015
NISA investments swell but still not on pace to reach target
Savers held ¥3 trillion in Japan's temporarily tax-free investment accounts at the end of the program's first year, the Financial Services Agency said in a statement on its website.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 9, 2015
Nomura, Daiwa boost hiring of grads as stock market climbs
Nomura Holdings Inc. and Daiwa Securities Group Inc. increased hiring of university graduates this year as a stock market rally brightens prospects for the nation's biggest securities firms.

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