Nomura aims to be Asia's asset gatekeeper

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Nomura aims to be Asia's asset gatekeeper

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The CEO of Japan’s largest bank joined Nomura in 1981 as a retail sales­person, and worked his way up to become a manager, overseeing three branches of the bank at different periods. Koji Nagai then moved to investment banking, where he was eventually promoted to run the division, before becoming president of Nomura Securities in April 2012 and group CEO in August of the same year. He tells Asiamoney how Nomura can benefit from Asia’s growing economies.

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