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1 week ago | 
chicagobusiness.com | Takashi Nakamichi |Bei Hu
A talent war is intensifying in the yen rates space, as banks and hedge funds snap up seasoned traders after the biggest market swings in years inflicted widespread losses. Some market players are offering multi-million dollar packages to lure yen rates traders, following a sudden Trump-inflicted selloff which drove Japan’s bond yields to a two-decade high. The flurry of new hires builds on a spate of recruitments that began before the central bank started raising interest rates last year.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Takashi Nakamichi |Bei Hu
Mount Fuji and the Shinjuku skyline in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. Japan is scheduled to release its fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figures on Feb. 17. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg(Bloomberg) -- A talent war is intensifying in the yen rates space, as banks and hedge funds snap up seasoned traders after the biggest market swings in years inflicted widespread losses.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Takashi Nakamichi |Bei Hu |William Shaw
An electronic stock board displays the rate of the yen against the US dollar in Tokyo, Japan. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Balyasny Asset Management hired one of the top yen rates portfolio managers, Ron Choy, offering him a roughly $30 million package amid widespread pain in the Japanese bond market, according to people familiar with the matter.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Takashi Nakamichi |Ambereen Choudhury |David Ramli
A screen displays the Nikkei 225 Stock Average in Tokyo. (Bloomberg) -- A pair of hedge funds are hiring yen rates traders from global banks, even as tariff-induced turmoil sweeps the Japanese government bond market. Capula Investment Management LLP is recruiting Deutsche Bank AG’s Masahiko Maihara, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Cathy Chan |Takashi Nakamichi
Nomura Holdings Inc. has scaled back its original focus on China wealth to prioritize an expansion in brokerage and asset management in the world’s second largest economy, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Nomura Orient International Securities Co. has trimmed staffing by about two-thirds in its China wealth business over the past two years, the people said, asking not to be identified as the matter is confidential.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Takashi Nakamichi |Nao Sano
An American former executive of a large Japanese brokerage who has been criminally charged in Japan asked a court to rule him innocent, and said the outcome of his trial will have bearings on the country’s standing as an international financial hub.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Takashi Nakamichi |Nao Sano
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1 month ago | 
ca.finance.yahoo.com | Takashi Nakamichi |Nao Sano
(Bloomberg) -- An American former executive of a large Japanese brokerage who has been criminally charged in Japan asked a court to rule him innocent, and said the outcome of his trial will have bearings on the country’s standing as an international financial hub. • None Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?
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1 month ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Takashi Nakamichi |Joyce Koh
Citigroup is expanding its investment banking team in Japan as the Wall Street firm bets that the country’s deal fee pool will finally rebound after a two-decade slump. Japan was one of the few countries selected by the New York headquarters as key for dealmaking, where the firm wants to make strategic investments including hiring bankers involved with merger advisory and securities underwriting, Masuo Fukuda, head of Citigroup’s investment banking business in Tokyo, said in an interview.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Takashi Nakamichi |Joyce Koh
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