Daiwa Securities Group

Daiwa Securities Group Inc.
Company typePublic (K.K)
TYO: 8601
TOPIX Large 70 Component
IndustryInvestment banking
Founded1943; 81 years ago (1943)
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
Key people
Hibino Takashi (President and CEO)
ProductsFinancial services
Investment banking
Investment management
Brokerage firm
Total assets$196.7 billion (2015)[1]
Number of employees
14,889 (at March 2022)
SubsidiariesDC Advisory
Websitewww.daiwa-grp.jp/english/

Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (大和証券グループ本社, Daiwa Shōken Gurūpu Honsha) is a Japanese investment bank that is the second largest securities brokerage after Nomura Securities.[2]

Major subsidiaries include Daiwa Securities, which offers retail services such as online trading to individual investors and investment banking services in Japan, as well as Daiwa Capital Markets, the firm's international investment banking arm (with a presence across Asia, Europe and North America) that provides M&A advisory, sales and trading services in a variety of financial products to corporate and institutional clients. Other group companies provide asset management, research and private equity fund services.

The company is the fourth largest shareholder in SL Green Realty.[3]

  1. ^ "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes.
  2. ^ "Japan's top three brokerages to pare grad hiring as households shun stocks". The Japan Times. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  3. ^ Putzier, Konrad (1 September 2015). "Who Will Be Holding the Bag?". The Real Deal. Retrieved 3 September 2015.