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Nomura downgraded after $3.8 billion Q3 loss
Nomura Holdings, Japan's leading brokerage, has announced a third quarter loss of ¥342.9 billion ($3.8 billion). The financial services company said the losses were driven by a series of "one-off" losses from exposure to Madoff funds, Icelandic banks,…
Nomura hires chief economist in New York
Nomura Securities International (NSI) has hired Paul Sheard in the newly created position of global chief economist and head of economic research in New York.
Nomura takes on ex-Lehman staff
Nomura, the Tokyo-based financial services group, has appointed Thomas Siegmund and Jai Rapal as joint heads of fixed income for Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan. They will both report to Zenji Nakamura, head of global fixed income.
Nomura acquires Lehman’s Asian and European operations
Following its filing for bankruptcy last weekend, the carving up of Lehman Brothers has continued with Japanese bank Nomura Holdings agreeing to acquire the Wall Street firm’s European and Asia-Pacific franchises.
Nomura dissolves US structured finance research team
Nomura Securities has laid off the three remaining members in its New York-based structured finance research division and transferred two others. Among those let go was Mark Adelson, who spent six years at the firm as its head of structured finance…
Nomura Bank International - Product review
Nomura Bank International's Swiss Alpha Strategy Certificate is an actively managed fund in certificate form for the German market, which pursues an options-based strategy
CDS IndexCo and Markit launch synthetic US CMBS index
CDS IndexCo and Markit have launched CMBX, a range of synthetic credit default swap (CDS) indexes of US commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which will trade from today.
Five market-makers back CME eurozone inflation futures
Barclays Capital, Ixis Corporate and Investment Bank, Lehman Brothers, Nomura International and the Royal Bank of Scotland have all agreed to become market-makers for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) new eurozone inflation futures contract. The…
BNP Paribas adds six to New York equity and derivatives team
BNP Paribas has hired six new traders - five from Nomura Securities - for its New York- based equity and derivatives trading business.
Execution across Nomura's new platform reaches $500 million
Nomura International says it has executed more than $500 million worth of structured transactions across Altrus, its new equity derivatives trading platform.
Merrill Lynch loses two equity derivatives staff in Hong Kong
Merrill Lynch has lost John Robson, a managing director responsible for the bank’s Asia-Pacific structured products business, to Nomura, where he will head the firm’s equity derivatives sales effort in Asia.
Nomura makes Hong Kong derivatives appointment
Nomura International has hired Alan Mak as head of structuring and marketing for Asia-Pacific derivatives.
Nomura continues equity derivatives build-up
Nomura, the Japanese securities firm, has continued its drive to create a strong European equity derivatives department, by unveiling a number of new hires.
BNP makes European fixed-income hires
French banking group BNP Paribas has announced two appointments in its fixed-income business servicing German, Austrian and Swiss corporates.
Nomura hires head of pass-through desk
Nomura Securities International has hired Peter Leonard to head the pass-through trading desk that trades mortgage-backed securities. He will also trade the 30-year conventional position.
Nomura builds up international credit group
Nomura International has made eight new appointments in London, New York and Hong Kong for its global credit group, which specialises in structured credit products and trading. The additions come as Nomura seeks to expand this particular business line in…
Highland hires to support move into credit-sensitive structured products
Highland Financial Holdings, a $650 million hedge fund manager in New York, has hired Dean Smith as senior vice-president to oversee the fund's expansion to credit risk products.
Nomura analyst sceptical about Nera’s ratings study
Research by National Economic Research Associates' (Nera) economic consulting division comparing different rating agencies’ rating processes has been described as “disappointingly inconclusive” by Mark Adelson, a New York-based securitisation and asset…
Nomura taps retail market with Japan fund of funds
Nomura Securities has begun distributing its first Japanese fund-of-hedge-funds product targeted at Japanese retail investors. Called Nomura Japan Stock Market Neutral Fund 03-05, the fund invests in four underlying Japan-focused market-neutral funds.
Deutsche hires Letica to head agency CMO trading
Deutsche Bank has hired Nicholas Letica as head of agency collateralised mortgage obligation (CMO) trading.