Nomura Holdings, Inc. announced unaudited consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2013. Net revenue for the fourth quarter was ¥653.6 billion ($6.9 billion), a 68% increase on the previous quarter and 31% higher than ¥498.968 billion for the same quarter last year. Income before income taxes was ¥169.7 billion ($1.8 billion), up 13.1 times quarter on quarter and 179% year on year to ¥60.758 billion. Net income attributable to Nomura Holdings shareholders was ¥82.4 billion ($875 million), an increase of 4.1 times over the third quarter and 3.7 times compared to ¥22.082 billion for the fourth quarter last year. Diluted EPS was ¥21.55 against ¥5.92 for the fourth quarter last year. For the full year period, Nomura reported net revenue of ¥1.8 trillion ($19.3 billion), income before income taxes of ¥237.7 billion ($2.5 billion), and net income attributable to Nomura Holdings shareholders of ¥107.2 billion ($1.1 billion) or ¥28.37 per diluted share against net revenue of ¥1.53 trillion, income before income taxes of ¥84.957 billion, and net income attributable to Nomura Holdings shareholders of ¥11.583 billion or ¥3.14 per diluted share for the last year. Net cash provided by operating activities was ¥549,501 million against ¥290,863 million for the last year. Return on shareholders' equity was 4.9% against 0.6% for the last year. During the fourth quarter, Japan benefited from the effects of economics and retail made a strong contribution to quarterly earnings. The company also booked a one-off gain on the secondary offering of Nomura Real Estate Holdings shares. Nomura also declared a year-end dividend of ¥6 per share to shareholders of record as of the end of March 2013. The dividend will be paid on June 3, 2013. Accordingly, the annual dividend for the year ended March 2013 will total ¥8 per share.

Nomura announced that Jeremy Bennett is to be appointed Chief Executive Officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa, subject to regulatory approvals. Mr. Bennett has held non-executive director positions within Nomura's European businesses since 2010. Mr. Bennett has over 20 years' experience in banking, with a strong background in structured products, derivatives and bank control infrastructure. He was a senior advisor at the Financial Services Authority and was instrumental in the creation of the Asset Protection Scheme with HM Treasury. Prior to this, Jeremy was at Credit Suisse between 1997 and 2008, holding a number of senior roles including Global Head of Structuring. Yasuo Kashiwagi will remain Interim CEO EMEA until the regulatory process is complete and thereafter will step down, becoming Co-Chief Executive Officer, Nomura Europe Holdings and COO of Nomura International Plc.

Nomura Holdings, Inc. announced that Martin Bates, Lloyds's former head of credit sales has joined Nomura in a senior sales position. Bates has joined Nomura as head of spread product sales, EMEA. He will report to Chris Fleming, head of global market sales, EMEA. Nomura has also recruited Rebekah Thompson as an executive director on its UK real money credit sales desk and Josh Gibbs as an executive director on its hedge fund credit sales desk. Both employees joined from UBS and will report to Nicholas Oxlade, Nomura's head of credit sales, EMEA. All three started at Nomura on March 4, 2013.