Nomura Holdings, Inc. is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese financial holding company, and a principal member of the Nomura Group

Nomura Group

The formerly Nomura zaibatsu is a company headquartered in Chuo, Tokyo.Nomura is one of the major industrial and financial conglomerate groupings of Japan. Osaka Nomura bank was founded by Tokushichi Nomura II in 1919 after many successful business ventures; it was established on the Mitsui...

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In October 2008 the company acquired Lehman Brothers Holdings's investment banking

Investment banking

An investment bank is a financial institution that assists individuals, corporations and governments in raising capital by underwriting and/or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities...

 and equities unit in Asia and Europe and kept on most of its employees. Nomura paid $225 million for the purchase of Lehman's Asian-Pacific unit. Nomura retained the 2000+ employees of Lehman's Powai (Mumbai, India) office.

Due to big losses, the shares dropped to their lowest level in nearly 37 years in mid-September 2011, Nomura will cut around 5 percent of its staff in Europe -as many as 300 people-.

Holdings

• Nomura Securities Co.
  Nomura Securities Co.
  is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. , which forms part of the Nomura Group. It plays a central role in the securities business, the Group's core business. Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong,...
  
  
• Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd.
• The Nomura Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Babcock & Brown Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Capital Investment Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Investor Relations Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Principal Finance Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Funds Research And Technologies Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Pension Support & Service Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Research & Advisory Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Business Services Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Satellite Communications Co., Ltd.
• Nomura Facilities, Inc.
• Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research
• Instinet Inc
• Nomura India Services Pvt. Ltd.