Local rules: Nomura fixed income chief lays out plans for Asian bond markets expansion

Nomura flagged its ambitions to become a global investment bank over a year ago as it picked up the Asian, European and Middle East businesses of the bankrupt Lehman Brothers, but it has taken time to convince sceptics that it deserves to be taken seriously. Thomas Siegmund, co-head of Asian fixed income, talked to Matthew Thomas about the firm’s plans for the region.