Tokyo, February 5, 2021 - Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced the launch of FINTOS¹, a new app that will provide information regarding investing to a broad range of users, including those who do not have an account with Nomura.

The economic climate and investing environment have seen significant changes under the pandemic, and growing uncertainty about the future has made the need to build assets more critical. With more people expected to live to a hundred, in addition to having a long-term perspective, clients must make quick investment decisions amid the changing environment in order to build assets.

The FINTOS app will leverage Nomura's deep capabilities in research and analysis to provide information to support clients' asset management (equity investment) needs. Offering a wide range of functions, the app will feature Japanese language research reports published daily by over 300 experienced Nomura researchers, market information and articles on key sectors and stocks², as well as video presentations on investing and online seminars for paid members.

Nomura is working to expand the scope of its business from public to private side services. As part of this, Nomura is committed to accelerating the digital transformation of information assets in order to enable individual investors to better build their assets, as well as offering investment information tailored to clients' needs.