Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, five sustainability experts across Nomura reflect on the issues that will be discussed to help the global economy reach net zero carbon emissions and keep the planet below 1.5°C
8 min read | October 2021
Jeff McDermott, Nomura’s newly appointed Global Co-Head of Investment Banking talks about the pressing need for Asia to decarbonize and how Nomura can be a force for good in transitioning companies to greener energy.
15 min video | October 2021
Badri Kothandaraman, Chief Executive Officer at solar power company Enphase, told Nomura Greentech that the California blackouts and Texas shutdowns spotlight the advantage of energy independence for homeowners.
5 min read | October 2021
Regulators across the world are revamping ESG disclosure rules to reduce greenwashing and catch up with demand from investors struggling to decipher how green their investments truly are.
6 min read | October 2021
Our weekly updated overview highlights the key releases of global economic market data from around the globe and provides an economic outlook for the rest of 2021 by region.
3 min read | October 2021
Professor Shane Crotty and his team at the La Jolla Institute in California study immunity against infectious diseases. They investigate how the immune system remembers infections and vaccines.
60 min video | September 2021
Asia's tech cycle and growth opportunities to watch.
26 min podcast | September 2021
Chris Leslie, Global Head of Sustainability at Macquarie Asset Management explains to Nomura Greentech how the Australian finance firm is well on track to be carbon neutral thanks to a shift in culture.
3 min read | September 2021
China’s curbs on the property sector likely mean sacrificing short-term stability, but could pave the way for Beijing to pursue long-term growth
28 min podcast | August 2021
María Victoria Zingoni, Executive Managing Director at Spanish energy giant Repsol, told Nomura Greentech that the company is transforming its business by adding solar and wind farms to become net-zero by 2050.
7 min read | August 2021
Investment in the art market, which has traditionally been limited to the ultra-wealthy, is now experiencing a shift in investor access and demand driven by securitization and technological improvements.
5 min read | August 2021
We introduce a novel AI-based technique for rating company ESG quality. Our method employs a unique Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach to analyse earnings call transcripts, uncovering ESG-relevant narratives and extracting ESG signals we can use to guide stock selection.
4 min read | August 2021
As ESG investing gains momentum, we explore the factors that point toward this being more a genuine lasting shift than a short-lived fad
9 min read | July 2021
Businesses must move from corporate social responsibility to being responsible social corporations.
5 min read | June 2021
Covid-19 has prompted hospitals across Asia to increase the use of technology in the delivery of their services. It’s also a wake-up call for India to boost its healthcare infrastructure.
2 min read | June 2021
We expect strong earnings recovery this year for Asia ex-Japan equities and double-digit earnings growth in 2022.
The growing adoption of 5G networks among customers in China is expected to boost domestic telecom companies’ average revenue per user and mobile revenue growth.
Global M&A saw a marked increase in the wake of the pandemic, but is this rise here to stay, and if so in which sectors?
6 min read | June 2021
Various approaches to carbon pricing have been trialled in financial and capital markets, illustrating major changes in Enterprise Value.
It is time for global investors to recognize China's scale and complexity, consider it a separate asset class and dedicate more resources and funds to this market.
3 min read | June 2021
An overlay technique of consensus-ratings to improve the ESG quality of portfolios
The Global semi-conductor chip shortage and impact to markets.
26 min podcast | May 2021
The pandemic has spurred a reset in values regarding social and environmental stewardship.
4 min read | April 2021
Carbon pricing in Japan could focus on policy mix involving carbon tax, emissions trading, subsidies
3 min read | March 2021
Vaccine rollout, pandemic support and infrastructure investment will likely be top priorities
5 min read | January 2021
A pillar of US President Joe Biden’s bid for the presidency was the radical reform of US environmental policy, but what will it mean for Asia?
3 min read | January 2021
ASEAN countries have made significant advances in reducing poverty and improving human development but improvements in gender equality and social mobility have been slow.
4 min read | December 2020
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6 min read | September 2020
Demand for sustainable finance solutions and products will accelerate beyond pre-crisis expectations.
4 min read | August 2020
We look at 6 ways that COVID-19 has helped address key issues in climate change.
2 min read | August 2020
The world remains in the grip of Covid-19, but the pandemic can also serve as a catalyst for change that can shape the world for decades to come.
29 min video | August 2020
What are the Global implications of diversifying from China?
3 min read | August 2020
The eSports ecosystem and related industries are expected to grow even after the current pandemic we are experiencing passes.
5 min read | August 2020
Nomura special report
3 min read | July 2020
In this episode of our Fireside Chat series Jordan talks with Marco Brancolini from our EUR rates desk strategy team on the EU recovery fund.
21 min podcast | July 2020
2 min read | July 2020
The state of Asia's Emerging Markets and how they got there.
18 min podcast | July 2020
Regulatory requirements, clients’ drive for efficiency, and the experience of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic are spurring a shift of FX option activity to platforms.
3 min read | June 2020
4 min read | June 2020
Companies and investors set to benefit from new issuance of convertible bonds as they provide flexible finance solutions to corporates and high returns to investors.
1 min read | June 2020
Different ways to think about the contraction and the long road to recovery
4 min read | May 2020
Basic strategy likely to involve shift to sectors with high intrinsic growth rate (alpha)
3 min read | April 2020
Our weekly update on the global economic impact Covid-19 has had on GDP, and provide their base, good and bad scenarios.
4 min read | February 2020
2020 Growth Expectations
3 min read | February 2020
The top market moving events that should be on your radar. Including the US Presidential election, trade talks, rate cuts & QE, Brexit and budgets, and green shoots in market survey data.
5 min video | January 2020
1 min read | January 2020
17 min video | January 2020
5 min video | December 2019
Among its struggling European peers, how has France managed to stay ahead of the game?
3 min read | November 2019
4 min read | November 2019
Client demands for speed and efficiency, coupled with regulatory pressure for transparency, will continue to drive the growth of electronic trading, including trading of more complex products
Tech giants like Google and IBM are racing to be the first ones to create the next generation of supercomputers, but how will they impact the world of finance?
2 min read | October 2019
6 min read | October 2019
The Infrastructure and Power Finance (IPF) team is dedicated to providing capital solutions for energy, infrastructure and related assets.
2 min video | September 2019
Nomura supported the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in the creation of a deep dive podcast series looking into the future of Japan and where their culture, economy, and government will be by 2030 and beyond.
20 min podcast | September 2019
2 min read | September 2019
With clear signs that the US economy has slowed, growing trade tensions rising, and new signs that global growth is slowing, is a US recession around the corner?
4 min read | September 2019
2 min read | August 2019
How an understanding of Japan's revered bonsai helps explain the markets
3 min read | August 2019
Every tree starts with a seed or a cutting. And a bonsai, while timeless and breath-taking, is just the same.
How the Japanese pursuit of perfection in bonsai has found a home in the West.
3 min video | August 2019
The dedication and pursuit of excellence that is inherent in caring for bonsai has taken root with Western horticulturalists and the sometimes spiritual routine that accompanies these tasks, has inspired a flourishing bonsai obsession, especially in the United Kingdom.
| August 2019
Japan’s ancient bonsai tradition, where miniaturised shrubs and trees are grown in pots for many hundreds of years. This art form is a millennium in the making.
4 min read | August 2019
A financial future built on distributed ledger technology, will blockchain take a bite out of banking complexity?
1 min read | July 2019
Our midyear review looks at different regions around the globe and the key factors affecting them through the remainder of 2019.
4 min read | July 2019
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6 min video | May 2019
4 min video | May 2019
We identify the 6 key themes between banking and horticulture.
2 min read | May 2019
Asset management’s next phase of disruption has arrived with big data creating the imperative for a radical re-imagination of technology in the investment processes.
6 min read | May 2019
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2 min video | March 2019
13 min podcast | March 2019
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1 min video | December 2018
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4 min video | July 2018
2 min read | June 2018
Central and Eastern Europe has been a manufacturing hub for the continent, but the model is creaking; will digital and software innovation provide growth?
4 min read | June 2018
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3 min video | June 2018
We believe a continued rise in oil prices would divide EM by economic performance, for two main reasons...
1 min read | May 2018
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Technology has transformed the global economy, and it’s giving emerging markets a competitive advantage.
1 min video | April 2018
Outbound M&A from Japanese companies is growing and could be a beacon in a volatile international environment
6 min read | March 2018
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11 min podcast | August 2017
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