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Nomura downgraded after $3.8 billion Q3 loss
Nomura Holdings, Japan's leading brokerage, has announced a third quarter loss of ¥342.9 billion ($3.8 billion). The financial services company said the losses were driven by a series of "one-off" losses from exposure to Madoff funds, Icelandic banks,…
Nomura hires chief economist in New York
Nomura Securities International (NSI) has hired Paul Sheard in the newly created position of global chief economist and head of economic research in New York.
Nomura takes on ex-Lehman staff
Nomura, the Tokyo-based financial services group, has appointed Thomas Siegmund and Jai Rapal as joint heads of fixed income for Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan. They will both report to Zenji Nakamura, head of global fixed income.
Nomura acquires Lehman’s Asian and European operations
Following its filing for bankruptcy last weekend, the carving up of Lehman Brothers has continued with Japanese bank Nomura Holdings agreeing to acquire the Wall Street firm’s European and Asia-Pacific franchises.
Nomura dissolves US structured finance research team
Nomura Securities has laid off the three remaining members in its New York-based structured finance research division and transferred two others. Among those let go was Mark Adelson, who spent six years at the firm as its head of structured finance…
Nomura Bank International - Product review
Nomura Bank International's Swiss Alpha Strategy Certificate is an actively managed fund in certificate form for the German market, which pursues an options-based strategy
CDS IndexCo and Markit launch synthetic US CMBS index
CDS IndexCo and Markit have launched CMBX, a range of synthetic credit default swap (CDS) indexes of US commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which will trade from today.
Five market-makers back CME eurozone inflation futures
Barclays Capital, Ixis Corporate and Investment Bank, Lehman Brothers, Nomura International and the Royal Bank of Scotland have all agreed to become market-makers for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) new eurozone inflation futures contract. The…