NMR Nomura Holdings Inc

FORM 6-K

U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Report of Foreign Private Issuer

Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Commission File Number: 1-15270

For the month of November 2024

NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC.

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

13-1, Nihonbashi 1-chome

Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-8645

Japan

(Address of principal executive offices)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

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EXHIBITS

The registrant hereby incorporates Exhibits 1 (except Part I, Item 4.2 — “Interim Review Certificate” and the English translation of Interim Review Report of Independent Auditor), 2 and 3 to this report on Form 6-K by reference (i) in the prospectus that is part of the Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Registration No. 333-261756) of the registrant, filed with the SEC on December 20, 2021 and (ii) in the prospectus that is part of the Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Registration No. 333-273353) of the registrant and of Nomura America Finance, LLC, filed with the SEC on July 20, 2023.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Exhibit 1

Semi-annual Securities Report Pursuant to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2024

Items included in the Semi-annual Securities Report

Note: Translations for the underlined items are attached to this form as below.

Part I Corporate Information

Item 1. Information on Company and Its Subsidiaries and Affiliates

1. Selected Financial Data

2. Business Overview

There were no significant changes to the businesses of the Company and its 1,528 consolidated subsidiaries for the six months ended September 30, 2024.

There were 13 affiliated companies which were accounted for by the equity method as of September 30, 2024.

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Item 2. Operating and Financial Review

1. Risk Factors

Significant changes in our Risk Factors which were described on the annual securities report are stated below. The titles below correspond to the titles of “Part I Corporate Information—Item 2. Operating and Financial Review—3. Risk Factors” in the annual securities report. The discussion below contains future matters that are based on the assessments made as of the date of submission of this report (November 14, 2024), unless noted separately.

16. Misconduct, fraud or other criminal activity by an employee, director or officer, or any third party, could occur, and our reputation in the market and our relationships with clients could be harmed

We always face the risk that our employees, directors or officers, or any third party, could engage in misconduct that may adversely affect our business. Misconduct by an employee, director or officer includes conduct such as entering into transactions in excess of authorized limits, acceptance of risks that exceed our limits, concealment of unauthorized or unsuccessful activities, or criminal or other unlawful actions against customers or their families. The misconduct could also involve the improper use or disclosure of non-public information relating to us or our clients, such as insider trading, improper transmission of such information and the recommendation of trades based on such information, as well as other crimes, which could result in regulatory sanctions, legal liability and serious reputational or financial damage to us.

Third parties may also engage in fraudulent activities, including devising a fraudulent scheme to induce our investment, loans, guarantee or any other form of financial commitment, both direct and indirect. Because of the broad range of businesses that we engage in and the large number of third parties with whom we deal in our day-to-day business operations, such fraud or any other misconduct may be difficult to prevent or detect, and our future reputation and financial condition could be adversely affected, which could result in serious reputational or financial damage to us in the future.

Measures we have implemented or additional measures that may be implemented in the future may not be effective in preventing or managing the risk of misconduct or fraud in all cases, and we may not always be able to detect or deter misconduct or fraud by an employee, director, officers, or third parties. If any administrative or judicial sanction is issued against us as a result of such fraudulent or misconduct, we may lose business opportunities, and our future revenue and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected, even after the sanction is lifted, if and to the extent that our clients, especially public institutions, decide not to engage us for their financial transactions.

18. Our business is subject to substantial legal, regulatory and reputational risks

(Omitted)

(2) Extensive regulation of our businesses limits our activities and may subject us to significant penalties and losses

(Omitted)

On September 25, 2024, the Japanese Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (the “SESC”) issued a recommendation that an administrative monetary penalty payment order be issued to the Company’s subsidiary, Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (“NSC”), based on the SESC’s finding that NSC engaged in activities that constituted a violation of laws and regulations as part of certain Japanese government bond (“JGB”) futures transactions conducted in March 2021. As a result, in October 2024, NSC received a suspension of Special Entitlements of JGB Market Special Participants (Primary Dealer) from October 15, 2024 to November 14, 2024 from Japan’s Ministry of Finance and an order for an administrative monetary penalty from the Financial Services Agency (“FSA”). Following the imposition of these administrative actions, certain of our clients suspended engagement with us for financial transactions, which may affect our revenues.

(Omitted)

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2. Operating, Financial and Cash Flow Analyses by Management

(1) Operating Results

Nomura reported net revenue of ¥937.8 billion, non-interest expenses of ¥701.8 billion, income before income taxes of ¥235.9 billion, and net income attributable to NHI shareholders of ¥167.3 billion for the six months ended September 30, 2024.

The breakdown of net revenue and non-interest expenses on the consolidated statements of income is as follows:

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Business Segment Information

Results by business segment are noted below. Nomura renamed the Retail Division as the “Wealth Management Division,” effective April 1, 2024.

Reconciliations of Net revenue and Income (loss) before income taxes on segment results of operations and the consolidated statements of income are set forth in Item 4. Financial Information, 1. Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 16. “Segment and geographic information.”

Net revenue

Wealth Management

Net revenue was ¥230.7 billion primarily due to increase in commissions from sales of investment trusts. Non-interest expenses were ¥143.1 billion and income before income taxes was ¥87.5 billion. Wealth Management client assets were ¥146.1 trillion as of September 30, 2024, a ¥7.5 trillion decrease from March 31, 2024.

Investment Management

Net revenue was ¥103.8 billion. Non-interest expenses were ¥48.6 billion and income before income taxes was ¥55.1 billion. Assets under management were ¥88.8 trillion as of September 30, 2024, ¥0.2 trillion decrease from March 31, 2024, primarily due to decreases in the market value of assets under management.

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The breakdown of net revenue for Investment Management is as follows:

Wholesale

Net revenue was ¥508.2 billion. Non-interest expenses were ¥441.8 billion and income before income taxes was ¥66.4 billion.

The breakdown of net revenue for Wholesale is as follows:

Global Markets net revenue was ¥428.7 billion. Fixed Income net revenue increased from ¥194.2 billion as of September 30, 2023 to ¥253.5 billion mainly because of strong performance in spread products. Equities net revenue increased from ¥136.8 billion as of September 30, 2023 to ¥175.2 billion due to strong performances in execution service and equity products. Investment banking net revenue was ¥79.5 billion.

Other Operating Results

Other operating results include net gain (loss) related to economic hedging transactions, a part of realized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes, equity in earnings of affiliates, corporate items, and other financial adjustments. Other operating results for the six months ended September 30, 2024 include gains from changes in the fair value of derivative liabilities of ¥13.4 billion attributable to the change in its own creditworthiness and gains from changes in counterparty credit spread of ¥0.1 billion. Net revenue was ¥97.1 billion, Non-interest expenses were ¥68.3 billion and Income before income taxes was ¥28.9 billion for the six months ended September 30, 2024.

Geographic Information

Please refer to Item 4. Financial Information, 1. Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 16. “Segment and geographic information” for net revenue and income (loss) before income taxes by geographic allocation.

Cash Flow Information

Please refer to “(5) Liquidity and Capital Resources.”

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(2) Assets and Liabilities Associated with Investment and Financial Services Business

1) Exposure to Certain Financial Instruments and Counterparties

Market conditions continue to impact numerous products to which we have certain exposures. We also have exposures to Special Purpose Entities (“SPEs”) and others in the normal course of business.

Leveraged Finance

We provide loans to clients in connection with leveraged buy-outs and leveraged buy-ins. As this type of financing is usually initially provided through a commitment, we have both funded and unfunded exposures on these transactions.

The following table sets forth our exposure to leveraged finance with unfunded commitments, presenting funded and unfunded portions by geographic location of the target company as of September 30, 2024.

Special Purpose Entities

Our involvement with these entities includes structuring, underwriting, as well as, subject to prevailing market conditions, distributing and selling debt instruments and beneficial interests issued by these entities. In the normal course of securitization and equity derivative activities business, we also act as a transferor of financial assets to, and underwriter, distributor and seller of repackaged financial instruments issued by these entities. We retain, purchase and sell variable interests in SPEs in connection with our market-making, investing and structuring activities. Our other types of involvement with SPEs include guarantee agreements and derivative contracts.

For further discussion on Nomura’s involvement with variable interest entities (“VIEs”), see Item 4. Financial Information, 1. Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 7. “Securitizations and Variable Interest Entities.”

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(3) Trading Activities

Assets and liabilities for trading purposes

Please refer to Item 4. Financial Information, 1. Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 2. “Fair value measurements” and Note 3. “Derivative instruments and hedging activities” regarding the balances of assets and liabilities for trading purposes.

Risk management of trading activity

We adopt Value at Risk (“VaR”) for measurement of market risk arising from trading activity.

1) Assumptions on VaR

2) Records of VaR

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(4) Deferred Tax Assets Information

Details of deferred tax assets and liabilities

The following table presents details of deferred tax assets and liabilities reported within Other assets—Other and Other liabilities, respectively, in the consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2024.

Calculation method of deferred tax assets

In accordance with U.S. GAAP, we recognize deferred tax assets to the extent we believe that it is more likely than not that a benefit will be realized. A valuation allowance is provided for tax benefits available to us, which are not deemed more likely than not to be realized.

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(5) Liquidity and Capital Resources

Funding and Liquidity Management

Overview

We define liquidity risk as the risk of loss arising from difficulty in securing the necessary funding or from a significantly higher cost of funding than normal levels due to deterioration of the Nomura Group’s creditworthiness or deterioration in market conditions. This risk could arise from Nomura-specific or market-wide events such as inability to access the secured or unsecured debt markets, a deterioration in our credit ratings, a failure to manage unplanned changes in funding requirements, a failure to liquidate assets quickly and with minimal loss in value, or changes in regulatory capital restrictions which may prevent the free flow of funds between different group entities. Our global liquidity risk management policy is based on liquidity risk appetite formulated by the Executive Management Board (“EMB”). Nomura’s liquidity risk management, under market-wide stress and in addition, under Nomura-specific stress, seeks to ensure enough continuous liquidity to meet all funding requirements and unsecured debt obligations across one year and 30-day periods, respectively, without raising funds through unsecured funding or through the liquidation of assets. We are required to meet regulatory notice on the liquidity coverage ratio and net stable funding ratio issued by the Financial Services Agency (“FSA”).

We have in place a number of liquidity risk management frameworks that enable us to achieve our primary liquidity objective. These frameworks include (1) Centralized Control of Residual Cash and Maintenance of Liquidity Portfolio; (2) Utilization of Unencumbered Assets as Part of Our Liquidity Portfolio; (3) Appropriate Funding and Diversification of Funding Sources and Maturities Commensurate with the Composition of Assets; (4) Management of Credit Lines to Nomura Group Entities; (5) Implementation of Liquidity Stress Tests; and (6) Contingency Funding Plan.

Our EMB has the authority to make decisions concerning group liquidity management. The Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) has the operational authority and responsibility over group liquidity management based on decisions made by the EMB.

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1) Centralized Control of Residual Cash and Maintenance of Liquidity Portfolio

We centrally control residual cash held at Nomura Group entities for effective liquidity utilization purposes. As for the usage of funds, the CFO decides the maximum amount of available funds, provided without posting any collateral, for allocation within Nomura and the EMB allocates the funds to each business division. Global Treasury monitors usage by businesses and reports to the EMB.

In order to enable us to transfer funds smoothly between group entities, we limit the issuance of securities by regulated broker-dealers or banking entities within the Nomura Group and seek to raise unsecured funding primarily through the Company or through unregulated subsidiaries. The primary benefits of this strategy include cost minimization, wider investor name recognition and greater flexibility in providing funding to various subsidiaries across the Nomura Group.

To meet any potential liquidity requirement, we maintain a liquidity portfolio, managed by Global Treasury apart from other assets, in the form of cash and highly liquid, unencumbered securities that may be sold or pledged to provide liquidity. As of September 30, 2024, our liquidity portfolio was ¥9,375.8 billion which sufficiently met liquidity requirements under the stress scenarios.

2) Utilization of Unencumbered Assets as Part of Our Liquidity Portfolio

In addition to our liquidity portfolio, we had unencumbered assets comprising mainly of unpledged trading assets that can be used as an additional source of secured funding. Global Treasury monitors other unencumbered assets and can, under a liquidity stress event when the contingency funding plan has been invoked, monetize and utilize the cash generated as a result. The aggregate of our liquidity portfolio and other unencumbered assets was sufficient against our total unsecured debt maturing within one year.

3) Appropriate Funding and Diversification of Funding Sources and Maturities Commensurate with the Composition of Assets

We seek to maintain a surplus of long-term debt and equity above the cash capital requirements of our assets. We also seek to achieve diversification of our funding by market, instrument type, investors, currency, and staggered maturities in order to reduce unsecured refinancing risk.

We diversify funding by issuing various types of debt instruments—these include both structured loans and structured notes with returns linked to interest rates, currencies, equities, commodities, or related indices. We issue structured loans and structured notes in order to increase the diversity of our debt instruments. We typically hedge the returns we are obliged to pay with derivatives and/or the underlying assets to obtain funding equivalent to our unsecured long-term debt.

3.1) Short-Term Unsecured Debt

Our short-term unsecured debt consists of short-term bank borrowings (including long-term bank borrowings maturing within one year), other loans, commercial paper, deposit at banking entities, certificates of deposit and debt securities maturing within one year. Deposits at banking entities and certificates of deposit comprise customer deposits and certificates of deposit of our banking subsidiaries. Short-term unsecured debt includes the current portion of long-term unsecured debt.

The following table presents an analysis of our short-term unsecured debt by type of financial liability as of March 31, 2024 and September 30, 2024.

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3.2) Long-Term Unsecured Debt

We meet our long-term capital requirements and also achieve both cost-effective funding and an appropriate maturity profile by routinely funding through long-term debt and diversifying across various maturities and currencies.

Our long-term unsecured debt includes senior and subordinated debt issued through U.S. registered shelf offerings and our U.S. registered medium-term note programs, our Euro medium-term note programs, registered shelf offerings in Japan and various other debt programs.

As a globally competitive financial services group in Japan, we have access to multiple global markets and major funding centers. The Company, Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Nomura Europe Finance N.V., Nomura Bank International plc, Nomura International Funding Pte. Ltd., and Nomura Global Finance Co., Ltd. are the main group entities that borrow externally, issue debt instruments and engage in other funding activities. By raising funds to match the currencies and liquidities of our assets or by using foreign exchange swaps as necessary, we pursue optimization of our funding structures.

We use a wide range of products and currencies to ensure that our funding is efficient and well diversified across markets and investor types. Our unsecured senior debt is mostly issued without financial covenants, such as covenants related to adverse changes in our credit ratings, cash flows, results of operations or financial ratios, which could trigger an increase in our cost of financing or accelerate repayment of the debt.

The following table presents an analysis of our long-term unsecured debt by type of financial liability as of March 31, 2024 and September 30, 2024.

3.3) Maturity Profile

We also seek to maintain an average maturity for our plain vanilla debt securities and borrowings greater than or equal to three years. A significant amount of our structured loans and structured notes are linked to interest rates, currencies, equities, commodities, or related indices. These maturities are evaluated based on internal models and monitored by Global Treasury. Where there is a possibility that these may be called prior to their scheduled maturity date, maturities are based on our internal stress option adjusted model. The model values the embedded optionality under stress market conditions in order to determine when the debt securities or borrowings are likely to be called.

3.4) Secured Funding

We typically fund our trading activities through secured borrowings, repurchase agreements and Japanese “Gensaki Repo” transactions. We believe such funding activities in the secured markets are more cost-efficient and less credit-rating sensitive than financing in the unsecured market. Our secured funding capabilities depend on the quality of the underlying collateral and market conditions. While we have shorter term secured financing for highly liquid assets, we seek longer terms for less liquid assets. We also seek to lower the refinancing risks of secured funding by transacting with a diverse group of global counterparties and delivering various types of securities collateral. In addition, we reserve an appropriate level of liquidity portfolio for the refinancing risks of secured funding maturing in the short term for less liquid assets. For more detail of secured borrowings and repurchase agreements, see Note 5. “Collateralized transactions” in our consolidated financial statements.

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4) Management of Credit Lines to Nomura Group Entities

We maintain and expand credit lines to Nomura Group entities from other financial institutions to secure stable funding. We ensure that the maturity dates of borrowing agreements are distributed evenly throughout the year in order to prevent excessive maturities in any given period.

5) Implementation of Liquidity Stress Tests

We maintain our liquidity portfolio and monitor the sufficiency of our liquidity based on an internal model which simulates changes in cash outflow under specified stress scenarios to comply with our above mentioned liquidity management policy.

We assess the liquidity requirements of the Nomura Group under various stress scenarios with differing levels of severity over multiple time horizons. We evaluate these requirements under Nomura-specific and broad market-wide events, including potential credit rating downgrades at the Company and subsidiary levels. We call this risk analysis our Maximum Cumulative Outflow (“MCO”) framework.

The MCO framework is designed to incorporate the primary liquidity risks for Nomura and models the relevant future cash flows in the following two primary scenarios:

We assume that Nomura will not be able to liquidate assets or adjust its business model during the time horizons used in each of these scenarios. The MCO framework therefore defines the amount of liquidity required to be held in order to meet our expected liquidity needs in a stress event to a level we believe appropriate based on our liquidity risk appetite.

As of September 30, 2024, our liquidity portfolio exceeded net cash outflows under the stress scenarios described above.

We constantly evaluate and modify our liquidity risk assumptions based on regulatory and market changes. The model we use in order to simulate the impact of stress scenarios includes the following assumptions:

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6) Contingency Funding Plan

We have developed a detailed Contingency Funding Plan (“CFP”) to integrate liquidity risk control into our comprehensive risk management strategy and to enhance the quantitative aspects of our liquidity risk control procedures. As a part of our CFP, we have developed an approach for analyzing and quantifying the impact of any liquidity crisis. This allows us to estimate the likely impact of both Nomura-specific and market-wide events; and specifies the immediate action to be taken to mitigate any risk. The CFP lists details of key internal and external parties to be contacted and the processes by which information is to be disseminated. This has been developed at group and regional level in order to capture specific cash requirements at the local level—it assumes that our parent company does not have access to cash that may be trapped at a subsidiary level due to regulatory, legal or tax constraints. We periodically test the effectiveness of our CFP for different Nomura-specific and market-wide events. We also have access to central banks including, but not exclusively, the Bank of Japan, which provide financing against various types of securities. These operations are accessed in the normal course of business and are an important tool in mitigating contingent risk from market disruptions.

Liquidity Regulatory Framework

In 2008, the Basel Committee published “Principles for Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision.” To complement these principles, the Committee has further strengthened its liquidity risk management framework by developing two minimum standards for funding liquidity. These standards have been developed to achieve two separate but complementary objectives.

The first objective is to promote short-term resilience of a financial institution’s liquidity risk profile by ensuring that it has sufficient high-quality liquid assets to survive a significant stress scenario lasting for 30 days. The Committee developed the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (“LCR”) to achieve this objective.

The second objective is to promote resilience over a longer time horizon by creating additional incentives for financial institutions to fund their activities with more stable sources of funding on an ongoing basis. The Net Stable Funding Ratio (“NSFR”) has a time horizon of one year and has been developed to provide a sustainable maturity structure of assets and liabilities.

These two standards are comprised mainly of specific parameters which are internationally “harmonized” with prescribed values. Certain parameters, however, contain elements of national discretion to reflect jurisdiction-specific conditions.

In Japan, the regulatory notice on the LCR, based on the international agreement issued by the Basel Committee with necessary national revisions, was published by FSA. The notices have been implemented since the end of March 2015 with phased-in minimum standards. Average of Nomura’s LCRs for the three months ended September 30, 2024 was 224.3%, and Nomura was compliant with requirements of the above notices. As for the NSFR, the revision of the liquidity regulatory notice was published by the FSA (on March 31, 2021) and it has been implemented from the end of September 2021. Nomura’s NSFR as of September 30, 2024 was compliant with the regulatory requirements.

Cash Flows

Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents’ balance as of September 30, 2023 and as of September 30, 2024 were ¥4,105.3 billion and ¥4,827.8 billion, respectively. Cash flows from operating activities for the six months ended September 30, 2023 were inflows of ¥194.1 billion primarily due to a decrease in Securities purchased under agreements to resell, net of securities sold under agreements to repurchase and the comparable period in 2024 were outflows of ¥369.1 billion primarily due to an increase in Trading assets and private equity and debt investments. Cash flows from investing activities for the six months ended September 30, 2023 were outflows of ¥332.9 billion primarily due to Payments for purchases or origination of other non-trading loans and the comparable period in 2024 were outflows of ¥203.7 billion primarily due to Net cash outflows from loans receivable at banks. Cash flows from financing activities for the six months ended September 30, 2023 were inflows of ¥223.5 billion primarily due to Proceeds from issuances of long-term borrowings and the comparable period in 2024 were inflows of ¥1,211.5 billion primarily due to Proceeds from issuances of long-term borrowings as well.

Balance Sheet and Financial Leverage

Total assets as of September 30, 2024, were ¥57,458.6 billion, an increase of ¥2,311.4 billion compared with ¥55,147.2 billion as of March 31, 2024, primarily due to an increase in Trading assets. Total liabilities as of September 30, 2024, were ¥54,062.2 billion, an increase of ¥2,363.6 billion compared with ¥51,698.7 billion as of March 31, 2024, primarily due to an increase in Securities sold under agreements to repurchase. NHI shareholders’ equity as of September 30, 2024, was ¥3,300.8 billion, a decrease of ¥49.4 billion compared with ¥3,350.2 billion as of March 31, 2024, primarily due to a decrease in Accumulated other comprehensive income.

We seek to maintain sufficient capital at all times to withstand losses due to extreme market movements. The EMB is responsible for implementing and enforcing capital policies. This includes the determination of our balance sheet size and required capital levels. We continuously review our equity capital base to ensure that it can support the economic risk inherent in our business. There are also regulatory requirements for minimum capital of entities that operate in regulated securities or banking businesses.

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As leverage ratios are commonly used by other financial institutions similar to us, we voluntarily provide a Leverage ratio and Adjusted leverage ratio primarily for benchmarking purposes so that users of our annual report can compare our leverage against other financial institutions. Adjusted leverage ratio is a non-GAAP financial measure that Nomura considers to be a useful supplemental measure of leverage.

The following table sets forth NHI shareholders’ equity, total assets, adjusted assets and leverage ratios:

Total assets increased by 4.2% reflecting primarily an increase in Trading assets. NHI shareholders’ equity decreased by 1.5% primarily due to a decrease in Accumulated other comprehensive income. As a result, our leverage ratio rose from 16.5 times as of March 31, 2024 to 17.4 times as of September 30, 2024.

Adjusted assets increased primarily due to an increase in Trading assets. As a result, our adjusted leverage ratio rose from 10.2 times as of March 31, 2024 to 11.3 times as of September 30, 2024.

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Consolidated Regulatory Capital Requirements

The FSA established the “Guideline for Financial Conglomerates Supervision” (“Financial Conglomerates Guideline”) in June 2005 and set out the rules on consolidated regulatory capital. We started monitoring our consolidated capital adequacy ratio in accordance with the Financial Conglomerates Guideline from April 2005.

The Company has been assigned by the FSA as a Final Designated Parent Company who must calculate a consolidated capital adequacy ratio according to the Capital Adequacy Notice on Final Designated Parent Company in April 2011. Since then, we have been calculating our consolidated capital adequacy ratio according to the Capital Adequacy Notice on Final Designated Parent Company. The Capital Adequacy Notice on Final Designated Parent Company has been revised to be in line with Basel 2.5 and Basel III since then. We have calculated a Basel III-based consolidated capital adequacy ratio from the end of March 2013. Basel 2.5 includes significant change in calculation method of market risk and Basel III includes redefinition of capital items for the purpose of requiring higher quality of capital and expansion of the scope of credit risk-weighted assets calculation.

In accordance with Article 2 of the Capital Adequacy Notice on Final Designated Parent Company, our consolidated capital adequacy ratio is currently calculated based on the amounts of common equity Tier 1 capital, Tier 1 capital (sum of common equity Tier 1 capital and additional Tier 1 capital), total capital (sum of Tier 1 capital and Tier 2 capital), credit risk-weighted assets, market risk and operational risk. As of September 30, 2024, our common equity Tier 1 capital ratio is 15.76%, Tier 1 capital ratio is 17.73% and consolidated capital adequacy ratio is 17.73% and we were in compliance with the requirement for each ratio set out in the Capital Adequacy Notice on Final Designated Parent Company etc. (required level including applicable minimum consolidated capital buffers as of September 30, 2024 is 7.74% for the common equity Tier 1 capital ratio, 9.24% for the Tier 1 capital ratio and 11.24% for the consolidated capital adequacy ratio).

In accordance with Article 2 of the “Notice of the Establishment of Standards that Indicate Soundness pertaining to Loss-absorbing and Recapitalization Capacity, Established as Criteria by which the Highest Designated Parent Company is to Judge the Soundness in the Management of the Highest Designated Parent Company and its Subsidiary Corporations, etc., under Paragraph 1, Article 57-17 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act” (the “TLAC Notification”), we have started calculating our external TLAC ratio on a risk-weighted assets basis from March 2021. As of September 30, 2024, our external TLAC as a percentage of risk-weighted assets is 30.88% and we are in compliance with the requirement set out in the TLAC Notification.

The following table presents the Company’s consolidated capital adequacy ratios, consolidated leverage ratio and External TLAC ratios as of September 30, 2024.

Since the end of March 2011, we have been calculating credit risk-weighted assets and operational risk equivalent assets by using the foundation Internal Ratings-Based Approach and the Standardized Approach, respectively, with the approval of the FSA. Furthermore, market risk equivalent assets are calculated using the Internal Models Approach.

We provide consolidated capital adequacy ratios not only to demonstrate that we are in compliance with the requirements set out in the Capital Adequacy Notice on Final Designated Parent Company but also for benchmarking purposes so that users of this semi-annual securities report can compare our capital position against those of other financial groups to which Basel III is applied. Our management receives and reviews these capital ratios on a regular basis.

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Consolidated Leverage Ratio Requirements

In March 2019, the FSA set out requirements for the calculation and disclosure and minimum requirement of 3% of a consolidated leverage ratio, and the publication of “Notice of the Establishment of Standards for Determining Whether the Adequacy of Leverage, the Supplementary Measure to the Adequacy of Equity Capital of a Final Designated Parent Company and its Subsidiary Corporations, etc. is Appropriate Compared to the Assets Held by the Final Designated Parent Company and its Subsidiary Corporations, etc., under Paragraph 1, Article 57-17 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act” (2019 FSA Regulatory Notice No. 13; “Notice on Consolidated Leverage Ratio”), through amendments to revising “Specification of items which a final designated parent company should disclose on documents to show the status of its sound management” (2010 FSA Regulatory Notice No. 132; “Notice on Pillar 3 Disclosure”). We started calculating and disclosing a consolidated leverage ratio from March 31, 2015 in accordance with these Notices. We have also started calculating a consolidated leverage ratio from March 31, 2019 in accordance with the Notice on Pillar 3 Disclosure, Notice on Consolidated Leverage Ratio and other related Notices. In coordination with the monetary policy of the Bank of Japan in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the FSA published amendments to the Notice on Consolidated Leverage Ratio on June 2020 and March 2021. Under these amendments, deposits with the Bank of Japan have been excluded from the total exposure measure used to calculate the leverage ratio during the period from June 30, 2020. In July 2022, the FSA published further amendments to the Notice on Consolidated Leverage Ratio to raise the required level of leverage ratio from 3.0% to 3.15% after April 2024, while excluding the outstanding deposits with the Bank of Japan from the exposure measure as set forth in the previous amendment. As of September 30, 2024, our consolidated leverage ratio is 4.96%.

In accordance with Article 2 of the TLAC Notification we have started calculating our external TLAC ratio on a total exposure basis from March 2021. As of September 30, 2024, our external TLAC as a percentage of leverage ratio exposure measure is 9.54% and we are in compliance with the requirement set out in the TLAC Notification.

Credit Ratings

On May 23, 2024, Rating and Investment Information, Inc. changed the Outlook of the A Long Term Issuer Rating of the

Company and the A+ Long Term Issuer Rating of NSC from Stable to Positive.

(6) Current Challenges

The new challenges on operating and financing activities that arose during the six months ended September 30, 2024 and until the submission date of this Semi-annual Securities Report are as follows:

• Risk Management and Compliance, etc.

(Administrative Action by Japan’s Financial Services Agency)

In September 2024, the Japanese Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission made a recommendation that the Financial Services Agency (“FSA”) impose an administrative monetary penalty against NSC for unlawful trading of Japanese government bond futures in March 2021. The payment order was subsequently issued to NSC by the FSA in October 2024, and NSC received a suspension of Special Entitlements of JGB Market Special Participants (Primary Dealer) from October 15, 2024 to November 14, 2024 from Japan’s Ministry of Finance.

In response to this, NSC have conducted an investigation and verification into the causes of the incident, and on October 31, 2024, we outlined the following measures we plan to take in order to prevent recurrence:

(1) Front Office prevention measures

① Measures to strengthen traders’ awareness of compliance issues

② Strengthening trading management in Front Office

(2) Prevention measures in Compliance

Development of more sophisticated surveillance and oversight functions

(3) Verification by Internal Audit

Verification of the progress of prevention measures, confirming the status of operations

(4) Establishment of new organization

Establishment of the Global Markets Surveillance Strategy and Planning Department to ensure the swift implementation of measures in Front Office and Compliance and lead the enhancement of our monitoring framework

(5) Management initiatives to reinforce compliance with laws

Initiatives to put our Purpose “We aspire to create a better world by harnessing the power of financial markets” into action and initiatives to instill this understanding among all executives and employees

By fully implementing these measures, we will seek to further enhance our compliance framework and internal controls to prevent similar incidents and to regain stakeholder trust.

(Arrest of Former Employee)

On October 30, 2024, a former employee of NSC was arrested by Hiroshima Prefecture police on suspicion of certain serious criminal acts during his employment with NSC. He allegedly committed robbery, attempted murder and arson against two individuals, including an NSC customer.

We take this matter very seriously. An incident like this must never happen at a financial institution entrusted with looking after its clients’ assets. To reassure our clients and regain their trust, we have introduced the following initiatives.

We remain committed to reinforcing our client-centric approach to create an environment where clients can have peace of mind when working with us.

3. Significant Contracts

Not applicable.

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Item 3. Company Information

1. Share Capital Information

(1) Total Number of Shares

A. Number of Authorized Share Capital

The “Authorized Share Capital” is stated by class and the “Total” is the number of authorized share capital designated in the Articles of Incorporation.

B. Issued Shares

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(2) Stock Acquisition Rights

A. Stock option

Not applicable.

B. Other stock acquisition rights

Not applicable.

(3) Exercises, etc., of moving strike convertible bonds, etc.

None

(4) Changes in Issued Shares, Common Stock, etc.

(5) Major Shareholders

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(6) Voting Rights

A. Outstanding Shares

B. Treasury Stock

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Item 4. Financial Information

Nomura also qualifies as a company listed in the first row of item 1 in a table of Article 24-5 Section 1 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, and Nomura has prepared type 1 interim consolidated financial statements in accordance with Part 1, 3 and 6 of “Regulation on Terminology, Forms and Preparation Methods of Consolidated Financial Statements.”

Under Article 193-2 Section 1 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC performed an interim review of the consolidated financial statements for the six months ended September 30, 2024.

<Note>

Although Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC reported that they applied limited procedures in accordance with professional standards in Japan on the interim consolidated financial statements, prepared in Japanese for the six months ended September 30, 2024, they have not performed any such limited procedures nor have they performed an audit on the English translated version of the consolidated financial statements for the above-mentioned periods which are included in this report on Form 6-K.

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1. Consolidated Financial Statements

(1) Consolidated Balance Sheets (UNAUDITED)

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(1) Consolidated Balance Sheets—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

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(1) Consolidated Balance Sheets—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following table presents the classification of consolidated variable interest entities’ (“VIEs”) assets and liabilities included in the consolidated balance sheets above. The assets of a consolidated VIE may only be used to settle obligations of that VIE. Creditors do not typically have any recourse to Nomura beyond the assets held in the VIEs. See Note 7 “Securitizations and Variable Interest Entities” for further information.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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(2) Consolidated Statements of Income (UNAUDITED)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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(3) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (UNAUDITED)