Risk solutions house of the year: Nomura

Risk Awards 2018: From reinsurance contracts to deal-contingent hedges, Japanese firm proves brains can triumph over brawn

Left to right: Selim Toker, Tim Owens, Anthony Morris, Paul Fulcher, Matthew Reader

Nomura

For some dealers, their ability to provide constant, cheap flow is a way of getting their foot in the door for when the client needs something more bespoke.

Nomura has taken the opposite approach – letting its structuring prowess lead it into deals on their own merits.

“We don’t have a large commercial engine that makes us eligible for flow business for many clients,” says Selim Toker, head of the risk solutions group at Nomura in London. “So instead we’ve always focused on the solutions