Lombard Odier joins Barclays and Nomura in hoping to grow partnerships and shareholdings in a market that is heavily banked but underpinned by a vast institutional bid and a belated surge towards sustainability.

Ravi Raju has hired some seasoned names and is extending the bank’s reach into south Asia and the Middle East.

How much right does a bank have to instruct your behaviour when working from home? At Nomura in Japan, plenty, it seems – though the bank has only concern for your health at heart.

Upstart Jarden has fine people; Nomura has network and balance sheet. Will a partnership work?

Kentaro Okuda had been delivering. Nomura was reporting strong and sustainable profits, with a streamlined international business driven by trading in the Americas. Then came Archegos.

The Japanese bank has spent big money to hire a wealth management team, but spiralling costs and a lack of name recognition in key markets leave many asking: how realistic are its ambitions?

Komainu aims to build crypto prime brokerage on top of its institutional-grade custody for digital assets, following $25 million funding round.

Local banks believe that reinventing wealth management will supply them with domestic growth in a dismal macro environment. But the challenge is that the bulk of assets are held by elderly people, who aren’t used to investment, aren’t used to paying for it and don’t care much about digital innovation.

Squeezed by negative rates on one side and an ageing population on the other, Japan’s banks have never had it so tough. Euromoney examines their potential to break free from these constraints.

Japanese banks must go overseas to build sustainable profits, each in their own way. Nomura is streamlining global operations and applying itself in China; Daiwa wants to be a global mid-market M&A house; MUFG has bought Asean banks; Mizuho prefers organic growth; and SMBC is somewhere in between. Who’s ahead?

A few weeks before being appointed as its new CEO, Nomura's Kentaro Okuda outlined his vision for the firm to Euromoney.

As part of Euromoney's 50th anniversary coverage, we profile some of the biggest names that we interviewed for our April capital markets focus.

Imagine that you run investment banking in Europe for a sizeable foreign firm whose name still enjoys a little cachet from its heyday 20 years ago when it figured high in the debt and equity arranger league tables and which sought to invest in Europe and rebuild scale after the global financial crisis.

One year after its humiliating withdrawal from European equities, Nomura’s international businesses are humming. The Japanese firm is set to expand in emerging markets and in the US, while pivoting towards a bigger presence in risk, particularly credit risk. But it still faces its age-old conundrum: outside Japan, it is too big to be a boutique, but not big enough to be a global bulge-bracket investment bank. Can Nomura find a fitting new position as the entire industry restructures?

A large part of Nomura’s recent boost in overseas earnings came from healthy fixed income revenues in the US. It has struggled to replicate this in mainstream primary debt. Instead, it pushes its strength in structured solutions.

One of the US president’s oft-repeated election promises was a tax holiday to encourage US corporations to bring assets held abroad back onshore – if he delivers, the dollar is likely to strengthen considerably against the currencies in which those assets are held, says Nomura.

Asian banks are increasingly proving themselves to be much more than just volume-hungry lenders.

Nomura EMEA bankers left reeling; industry in structural decline.

Large swaths of Nomura’s European equity business were closed down on Tuesday morning, with hundreds of bankers across equity underwriting, equity research, sales and equity derivatives informed they were to pack up and leave. Bankers at the firm tell Euromoney it was no surprise cuts were on the way, but selective pruning had been considered a more likely course than the scale of withdrawal that has been implemented.

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While emerging Asia is gunning to diversify its investment-led GDP cycle in favour of domestic growth drivers, fundamental weaknesses in the region limit policy options. As a result, emerging Asia is finding itself in ever more risky territory, argues Nomura.

One institution that probably wouldn’t even make the fall-back list for our hypothetical graduate is Nomura. I have written at length about the missteps at the Japanese firm. However, even I was taken aback to read that Italian prosecutors tried to seize some €1.8 billion of assets from Nomura as part of a probe into Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s use of derivatives to hide losses.

The firm might be stuck in the middle with nowhere to go: it is neither a global, bulge-bracket player nor a focused, low-cost, niche operator.

Even with the ECB's grand plan, we could be back to square one by year-end in terms of resolving Spain and Italy's crisis.

Nomura is set to increase its focus on FX index options, basket-style hedges and specialized investments for hedge funds through a new FX correlations business launched recently, says global head of FX options Nigel Khakoo.

Nomura has signed MarketPrizm, a market data and trading infrastructure provider, to provide it with ultra-low-latency networking connectivity for market data and connectivity across a multitude of market venues across Europe.

Chief executive and chief operating officer replaced, as performance woes continue to plague troubled bank, prompting speculation that the Japanese institution will retreat to its core markets.

Jens Nordvig, global head of currency strategy at Nomura, has been shortlisted for the Wolfson prize, which offers £250,000 to the best suggestion for how to handle the break-up of the eurozone.

Nomura is expanding its global rates and foreign exchange trading business in the Middle East, with three senior hires in its Dubai International Financial Centre branch, the bank said in a statement on Monday.

Nomura reveals newly appointed global head and deputy global head of fixed income, according to an internal memo obtained by Euromoney