- CEO
- Kentaro Okuda
- Full Time Employees
- 28,677
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Investment managers
- Address
- 13-1, Nihonbashi 1-chome Tokyo TY Japan 103-8645
- IPO Date
- Oct 2, 1961
- Business
- Nomura Holdings, Inc. (8604.T) operates as a leading financial services group, providing investment, financing, and related services to individual, institutional, corporate, and government clients worldwide through its four primary business divisions: Wealth Management; Investment Management; Wholesale, encompassing Global Markets and Investment Banking; and Banking. The Wealth Management division delivers comprehensive services to individual and corporate clients via a nationwide network of 104 branches in Japan and digital platforms, including traditional investment products such as stocks and bonds, as well as tailored consulting in estate planning, real estate, asset succession, and M&A; Investment Management offers solutions across asset classes from equities and bonds to alternative assets like private equity; Global Markets provides sales and trading in bonds, equities, foreign exchange, and derivatives for institutional investors; and Investment Banking delivers underwriting, M&A advisory, capital-raising, and risk solutions to corporates, financial institutions, and public sector entities. The Banking division, leveraging subsidiaries Nomura Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. and Nomura Bank (Luxembourg) S.A., focuses on private markets, bespoke products, asset building, and estate planning.
Founded on December 25, 1925, in Osaka by Tokushichi Nomura II as Japan's oldest brokerage firm, Nomura Holdings maintains its global headquarters at 1-9-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, with regional hubs in Hong Kong, London, and New York, and employs approximately 27,876 people across over 30 countries, servicing clients in the Americas (2,400 staff), EMEA (3,100 staff), Asia ex-Japan (7,100 staff), and Japan (15,100 staff). The company manages over 162.3 trillion yen in Wealth Management client assets and 101.2 trillion yen in net assets under management through investment trusts and advisory businesses, while covering 86% of global economic and financial indicators via its research team; it holds a dominant position in Japan with 15% of securities accounts and leads as the largest asset manager by assets under management.
In recent developments, Nomura completed its largest overseas acquisition since the Lehman era on December 1, 2025, purchasing Macquarie Group's U.S. and European public asset management business for $1.8 billion in cash, adding approximately $166 billion in assets and enhancing its global investment management capabilities. This transaction, initially announced in April 2025, includes a strategic alliance with Macquarie for product distribution and joint development of investment strategies, positioning Nomura as the U.S. wealth distribution partner for Macquarie Asset Management's alternative funds, with Nomura committing seed capital for tailored U.S. wealth client products. These moves support Nomura's focus on organic and inorganic growth in asset management, expanding access to high-net-worth clients, family offices, and institutional investors in key Western markets.