# NOMURA HOLDINGS INC

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## Overview

Nomura Holdings Inc. is a Japan-based global financial services group serving individuals, institutions, corporations and governments. Its businesses span wealth management, investment management, wholesale financial services—including global markets and investment banking—and banking. Founded as a securities firm in 1925, Nomura describes its purpose as creating a better world by harnessing the power of financial markets. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141624902)[2](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/company/history.html)[3](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/company/basic.html)

Nomura operates across more than 30 countries, with Japan as its home market and businesses in the Americas, Europe, and Asia and Oceania. It reported ¥1.89 trillion in net revenue for the fiscal year ended March 2025 and employed approximately 28,000 people worldwide. [4](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/company/outline.html)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141624876)
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## Products & services

Nomura offers individual and corporate clients brokerage and investment services covering domestic and overseas equities, bonds, investment trusts and insurance. Its wealth-management services include asset-allocation advice and discretionary portfolio management through wrap accounts, delivered through branches and online channels. Its banking offerings include deposits and securities-backed loans secured by eligible holdings at Nomura Securities. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P152756861)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P152756862)[8](https://www.nomura.co.jp/solution/financial-assets/wrap/)[9](https://www.nomura-trust.co.jp/hbank/nwpl.html)

For investors, Nomura’s investment-management businesses provide investment trusts, discretionary mandates and private funds spanning listed equities and bonds, private equity, private debt and real assets. Institutional offerings include public- and private-market strategies for pension funds, other institutions and financial intermediaries. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P152756864)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P152756865)[12](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/services/im.html)

For corporate and institutional clients, Global Markets provides trading, sales and structuring in fixed income and equities, including rates, foreign exchange, credit, securitized products, derivatives and structured products. Investment Banking provides merger-and-acquisition advice, equity and debt capital raising, financing and risk solutions. In the fiscal year ended March 2025, brokerage commissions, investment-trust distribution commissions and asset-management fees represented approximately 16%, 15% and 35%, respectively, of Wealth Management net revenue; these are service-revenue categories rather than sales shares for individual securities or funds. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P152756871)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P152756872)[15](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/services/wholesale/gm.html)[16](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/services/wholesale/ib.html)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17576214)
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## Geographic presence

Nomura Holdings is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and operates through subsidiaries with offices in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong, among other locations. [18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P152756827)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P152756831) Its reported geographic regions are Japan, the Americas, Europe, and Asia and Oceania. [20](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163653/000119312525144222/d909297d20f.htm)

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, Japan accounted for ¥866.0 billion, or 45.8%, of consolidated net revenue; the Americas for ¥589.1 billion (31.1%); Europe for ¥375.6 billion (19.8%); and Asia and Oceania for ¥61.7 billion (3.3%). [20](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163653/000119312525144222/d909297d20f.htm) At March 31, 2025, Nomura had 14,877 employees in Japan, 6,815 in Asia and Oceania, 3,133 in Europe and 2,417 in the Americas. [20](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163653/000119312525144222/d909297d20f.htm)
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## Business segments

Nomura Holdings reports four business segments. Wealth Management provides investment consultation, primarily to individuals in Japan. Investment Management offers investment trusts, discretionary management and other investment solutions to retail and institutional clients. Wholesale encompasses global sales and trading in securities and derivatives, as well as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, and financial advisory services. Banking uses Nomura’s banking subsidiaries to provide private-market and tailored products, including services related to asset building and estate planning. [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141616625)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141614412)

In the fiscal year ended March 2026, Wholesale generated approximately 54% of consolidated net revenue, Wealth Management 23%, Investment Management 12%, and Banking 2%. “Other,” including eliminations and items not assigned to a business segment, accounted for about 9%. These shares are approximate: a separately reported unrealized investment gain accounts for the small difference between the segment figures and consolidated net revenue. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16189373)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141616627)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141616632)[28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16189375)
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## Company history

Nomura’s origins lie in a money-changing business begun in Osaka by Tokushichi Nomura I. His son, Tokushichi Nomura II, established Nomura Securities on December 25, 1925, as a spin-off from Osaka Nomura Bank’s securities department. The firm opened a New York office in 1927, became a member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1949, and listed on Japan’s major stock exchanges in 1961. It opened a London representative office in 1964. [2](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/company/history.html)[29](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/company/group/holdings/milestones/history.html)

In 2001, the group adopted a holding-company structure and established Nomura Holdings, Inc.; its American depositary shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange later that year. In 2008, Nomura acquired Lehman Brothers’ operations in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, a major expansion of its international business. [29](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/company/group/holdings/milestones/history.html)[30](https://www.nomuraholdings.com/en/investor/shareholders/stock.html)[31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141607302)
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