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nomura: Fired Employee at Centre of Insider Probe

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nomura Holdings , Japan's largest brokerage house, said on Tuesday it had fired an employee at the centre of an insider trading probe. Nomura said earlier that it faced a probe that sources said involved leaked merger deal information. (Reporting...

Tags: Tokyo, Japan, Thomson Reuters Corp., merger

News items 2008-04-22

nomura Caught in Insider Trading Scandal

By Emi Emoto and Aiko Hayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Nomura Holdings , Japan's largest brokerage house, said on Tuesday that it had fired an employee at the centre of an insider trading ring and warned the fallout could harm its business. The insider...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial accounting, M&A, Tokyo, Nikkei, fallout, Hong Kong, Japan, stock, earnings, compliance, merger, knowledge, trader, analyst, stock price, Thomson Reuters Corp., commission, CEO

News items 2008-04-22

nomura Busted for Insider Trading

If you wasted as much time watching Gilligan's Island reruns as I did, you might remember the (now prescient) episode where the island was running dry of drinking water. The Skipper assigns Gilligan the task of guarding the water well. While Gilligan sleeps on the job, the...

Tags: Japan, Insider, Nomura, Skipper, Government, Benefits, Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Kevin Kelleher

Blog posts 2008-04-22

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nomura shocks with Pounds 750m of losses

Business News IN BRIEF *Nomura, the largest investment bank in Japan, has posted losses for the first-quarter of 153.9bn (750m), following provisions made for charges related to sub-prime US bond holdings. The scale of the losses surprised investors, but Nom-ura said it was acting prudently in assuming...

Articles 2008-04-26

Tokyo

WORLD MARKETS Stocks fell, ending a five-day rally, as sentiment sagged following Bank of America's worse-than-expected earnings results. The Nikkei lost 148.7, or 1.1 per cent, to 13,547.8. Shares in the brokerage sector were also hit hard as Japan's securities watchdog was investigating a foreign employee of...

Articles 2008-04-23

New Management Team for Instinet Europe

Appointment of Richard Balarkas as Instinet Europe Limited President and CEO completes the recent senior hires LONDON -- Instinet, a global securities firm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that Richard Balarkas has joined its Instinet Europe Limited (IEL) subsidiary as President and CEO. Mr....

Articles 2008-04-21

Paratek Pharmaceuticals Completes $40 Million Private Placement to Finance Clinical Programs Including Oral Antibiotic to Combat MRSA and Other Infections

BOSTON, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has closed the second and final tranche of a $40 million private financing. As previously announced, Aisling Capital led the financing, with additional participation by new investors, the D.E. Shaw group and Boston Life Science Venture...

Articles 2008-04-16

Tokyo

WORLD MARKETS The Nikkei stumbled as US conglomerate General Electric's poor earnings and bleak outlook for 2008 triggered broad-based selling. The index fell 3.1 per cent to 12,917.5, adding to last Friday's 2.9 per cent fall. Financial shares were among the notable losers. Nomura fell 4.9 per...

Articles 2008-04-15

Instinet Launches Enhanced Algorithmic Trading Suite

Instinet Execution Experts combine the sophistication of Nomura's U.S. algorithms with Instinet's liquidity and market access capabilities; liquidity aggregation technology extended to entire suite. NEW YORK -- Instinet, a global securities firm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced the launch of the Instinet Execution Experts,...

Articles 2008-04-14

Instinet Adds Connectivity to LeveL

NEW YORK -- Instinet, a global securities firm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that its U.S. broker-dealer, Instinet, LLC, has connected to LeveL ATS. LeveL becomes the latest U.S. dark pool clients can access through any of the algorithms in the Instinet Execution Experts suite. ...

Articles 2008-04-14

Instinet Partners with Research Management Provider Norbury Financial

NEW YORK -- Instinet, a global securities firm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced an exclusive relationship between its U.S. broker-dealer, Instinet, LLC, and Norbury Financial, whose software streamlines the research management process for investment professionals. Under the terms of the arrangement, Instinet's research sales group will...

Articles 2008-04-09

DeepFlex, Inc. Completes $33 Million Series C Funding

HOUSTON, April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- DeepFlex, Inc., the world's only manufacturer of flexible, unbonded, non-metallic composite pipe for use in deepwater and ultra deepwater oil and gas production, announced today that it has sold $33 million of Series C Preferred Stock. New investors in the company include lead...

Articles 2008-04-07

Instinet and Samsung to Launch Korea's First Securities Crossing Network

KoreaCross([TM] )to provide institutional investors with an anonymous, neutral and zero-market impact platform for the pre-market trading of Korean equities HONG KONG -- Instinet, a global securities firm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., and Samsung Securities Co., Ltd., Korea's leading investment bank, today announced the launch...

Articles 2008-03-30

Fitch Affirms 11 & Downgrades 1 Class from 2 nomura Transactions

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has taken rating actions on the following Nomura Asset Acceptance Corp. mortgage pass-through securities: Series 2003-A2 --Class A affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class M-1 affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class M-2 affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class B-1 affirmed at...

Articles 2008-03-28

Non-U.S. Company Delistings From NYSE Soared in 2007

WASHINGTON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Stock Exchange's (NYSE) foreign company delisting rate skyrocketed to 15.1% in 2007 from 6.6% in 2006, according to a new study by the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation (CCMR). The study also found that the dramatic increase in foreign...

Articles 2008-03-26

Fitch Affirms 3 Classes from 2 nomura Transactions

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings affirms Nomura Asset Securities Corp. mortgage pass-through securities as follows: Series 1994-1 --Class A at 'AAA'. Series 1994-3 --Class A at 'AAA'; --Class M-3 at 'A'. The affirmations, affecting approximately $2.1 million of...

Articles 2008-03-25

FIRST EASTERN INVESTMENT LAUNCHES SINO-JAPANESE FUND

AsiaInfo Services03-20-2008First Eastern Investment Launches Sino-Japanese FundBEIJING, Mar 20, 2008 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- Chinese private equity investment veteran First Eastern Investment Group launched Sino-Japanese Fund on March 18, 2008, valued at more than USD 100 million.The fund will mainly invest into the Chinese and Japanese companies that are engaged...

Articles 2008-03-20

FIDELITY JAPANESE VALUES PLC - Final Results.

FIDELITY JAPANESE VALUES PLC Preliminary Announcement of Results For the year ended 31 December 2007 The Year's Results: NAV 66.67p (-16.2%) The Share Price and the Discount: Price: 58.50p (down 15.00p; -20.4%) Discount: 12.3% (7.7% in 2006) PERFORMANCE REVIEW It has been...

Articles 2008-03-19

Babcock & Brown Aircraft Management Delivers New Boeing 737-800 to Transavia France

SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Babcock & Brown Aircraft Management LLC (BBAM), the world's fifth largest lessor of commercial aircraft, today announced the delivery of a new Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Transavia France on March 4, 2008, at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington. "The delivery of...

Articles 2008-03-14

Mobile concerns weigh on Laird.

RESULT: Component maker Laird denies seeing any slowdown in mobile handsets, its biggest market. Tim Bradshaw Who to believe? Analysts at Nomura cut first-quarter mobile handset shipment forecasts by 5 per cent for the big mobile makers, after a dismal update from giant...

Articles 2008-03-12