Investment Banking

Overview

Nomura's Investment Banking offers a broad range of financial products and services, including equity and debt financing, advisory services, and tailor-made solutions to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and public-sector organizations around the world.

Our years of experience and solid track record of accomplishments demonstrate our strengths in deal structuring and execution capabilities. We strive to anticipate our clients' business needs in order to provide customized and innovative solutions to support their business strategy. We leverage our firm's platform by working closely with our Retail division and within Wholesale globally to offer our clients the most value-added opportunities. As an independent investment bank, we are well positioned to deliver unbiased market-driven advice aimed to increase our clients' shareholder value.

We aim to become a top-tier player by further expanding our franchise as Asia's global investment bank. We also seek to maintain and enhance long-term relationships with our clients by supporting the execution of their corporate strategies.

Business Environment

The nascent global economic recovery and more robust financial markets have helped our business, leading to improved corporate earnings and an uptick in M&A activity.

This was particularly apparent in the Americas platform and in the natural resources and energy sectors. At the same time, Japanese corporates became increasingly active in cross-border transactions, a trend we expect to continue into the future.

Equity financing remained robust throughout the year, as financial institutions tapped the markets to strengthen their financial position in response to increased regulatory and capital requirements, and a number of large initial public offerings (IPOs) and privatizations were executed in Asia and other markets.

Looking Forward

Merchant Banking

Merchant Banking is our private equity and venture capital arm. Since its creation in 1997, we invested in over 80 companies in the US, UK and rest of Europe.

Strengthen our partnership with Fixed Income and Equities

We will further leverage our partnerships with Fixed Income and Equities, including our global research network and derivatives capabilities to provide innovative, multi-product solutions and deliver a world-class franchise to our clients.

Expand our global M&A business

Through closer collaboration and teamwork, we will increase our involvement in major M&A transactions, particularly on cross-border deals. Working with Global Finance, we will continue to provide our clients with competitive financing and hedging (FX, interest rate) solutions.

Enhance our ECM business outside of Japan

We aim to increase market share by enhancing our partnership with Equities to deliver high-quality service to our clients, by advising on equity financings and connecting clients with investors globally.

Leverage our solutions business platform

We will continue to build our best-in-class solutions business as an important revenue driver for Investment Banking by replicating our success in Europe across the globe.

Further build-out of our Americas business

We will continue to build-out and grow our current product capabilities and selectively increase our coverage in key industries, including financial sponsors. We will pursue cross-border M&A opportunities while focusing on expanding our solutions business in partnership with Fixed Income and Equities.