Nomura Announces Changes to Board of Directors

Tokyo, June 26, 2008 – Nomura Holdings, Inc. today announced the following changes to its board of directors effective immediately.

Retiring Directors

Nobuyuki Koga

(Also retiring from position as Senior Managing Director and Representative Executive Officer)

Yukio Suzuki

Koji Tajika*

Newly Appointed Directors

Kenichi Watanabe

Takumi Shibata

Tsuguoki Fujinuma*

Masahiro Sakane*

Yoshifumi Kawabata

*Outside director

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Nomura

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 18,000 staff worldwide. Nomura's unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through five business divisions: domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking, global merchant banking, and asset management. For further information about Nomura, please visit www.nomura.com.

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