Form 6-k
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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

 

Supplement for the month of June 2005.

 


 

NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC.

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

 


 

9-1, 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.

 

Form 20-F      X            Form 40-F              

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):              

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):              

 

Indicate by check mark whether by furnishing the information contained in this Form, the registrant is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

Yes                      No      X    

 

If “Yes” is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82-

 



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Information furnished on this form:

 

EXHIBIT

 

Exhibit Number

1. [(English Translation) Notice of Resolutions of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders]
2. [Nomura Approves Share Buyback Program for Second Quarter]
3. [Nomura Announces Group Line Head Structures]

 

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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.

 

    NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC.
Date: June 28, 2005   By:  

/s/ Tetsu Ozaki


        Tetsu Ozaki
        Senior Managing Director

 

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[English Translation]

 

          June 28, 2005
To: Shareholders          
          Nobuyuki Koga
          President and Chief Executive Officer
          Nomura Holdings, Inc.
          1-9-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN

 

Notice of Resolutions of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders

 

Dear Shareholder:

 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, our shareholder, for your support for Nomura Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”). You are hereby notified that the following matters were reported or resolved at the 101st Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held today. I would like to thank you, our shareholder, for your continued support and encouragement to the activities of the Nomura Group.

 

Description

 

mReported Matters:

 

  1. Report on the 101st fiscal year’s (April 1, 2004 – March 31, 2005) business report, balance sheet (as of March 31, 2005) and income statement.

 

  2. Report on the 101st fiscal year’s consolidated balance sheet (as of March 31, 2005) and consolidated income statement and audit report of the independent accountants and the audit committee on such consolidated financial statements

 

  3. Report on the appropriation of retained earnings for the 101st fiscal year and its reason, etc.

 

The Company delivered the documents related to dividends early June and began to pay the dividend 10 yen per share on June 1, 2005. (The annual dividend per share including the interim dividend is 20 yen per share.)


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mResolved Matters:

 

Proposal No.1: Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation

 

This proposal was resolved as originally submitted.

 

Upon the resolution, Article 4 was amended that public notices of the Company shall be made by electronic public notice.

 

You can access to public notices of the Company on the Company’s website.

 

http://www.nomuraholdings.com/jp/investor/

 

Such notices shall be given by publication in Nihon Keizai Shimbun in cases the method of electronic public notice is not available due to any troubles or unavoidable circumstances.

 

Proposal No.2: Issuance of Stock Acquisition Rights as Stock Options

 

This proposal was resolved as originally submitted.

 

Under the resolution, the Company is authorized to issue without consideration the two types of the stock acquisition rights as stock options to the directors, executive officers and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries.

 

Proposal No.3: Election of Eleven Directors

 

This proposal was resolved as originally submitted.

 

The ten directors, namely Junichi Ujiie, Nobuyuki Koga, Hiroshi Toda, Kazutoshi Inano, Nobuyuki Shigemune, Masaharu Shibata, Hideaki Kubori, Haruo Tsuji, Fumihide Nomura and Koji Tajika, were re-elected and one director, namely Yukio Suzuki, was newly elected.


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After the closing of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, the Board of Directors resolved that the structure of committees under the Board of Directors and management be established as follows:

 

(1) Directors

 

Name


  

Principal Positions


Junichi Ujiie   

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Chairman of the Nomination Committee

Chairman of the Compensation Committee

Nobuyuki Koga    President & Chief Executive Officer
Hiroshi Toda    Deputy President & Chief Operating Officer
Kazutoshi Inano    Deputy President & Co-Chief Operating Officer
Nobuyuki Shigemune    Audit Mission Director
Yukio Suzuki    Audit Mission Director
Masaharu Shibata*   

Member of the Nomination Committee

Member of the Compensation Committee

Hideaki Kubori*   

Member of the Nomination Committee

Member of the Compensation Committee

Haruo Tsuji*    Chairman of the Audit Committee
Fumihide Nomura    Member of the Audit Committee
Koji Tajika*    Member of the Audit Committee

* outside director

 

(2) Executive Officers

 

Name


  

Principal Positions


Junichi Ujiie     
Nobuyuki Koga   

President & Chief Executive Officer

Representative Executive Officer

Hiroshi Toda   

Deputy President & Chief Operating Officer

Representative Executive Officer

Kazutoshi Inano   

Deputy President & Co-Chief Operating Officer

Representative Executive Officer

Takashi Yanagiya    Head of Global Investment Banking
Kenichi Watanabe    Head of Domestic Retail
Takumi Shibata    Head of Asset Management
Manabu Matsumoto    (Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (NSC))
Hiromi Yamaji    (Executive Managing Director of NSC)
Shogo Sakaguchi    (Executive Managing Director of NSC)
Masanori Itatani    Head of Internal Audit
Yoshimitsu Oura    (Executive Managing Director of NSC)
Yusuke Yamada    (Executive Managing Director of NSC)
Hitoshi Tada    (Executive Managing Director of NSC)
Yasuo Agemura    Head of Global Markets


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Name


  

Principal Positions


Akihiko Nakamura    Head of Global IT & Operations
Hideyuki Takahashi    Regional Management of Americas Region
Hiroshi Tanaka    In charge of Secretariat
Yoriyasu Yoshizawa    Regional Management of China Region
Yasuo Yoshihara    In charge of Discipline & Ethics Department
Akira Maruyama    Head of Global Merchant Banking
Akihito Watanabe    Head of Global Research
Tetsu Ozaki    Head of Global Corporate Communications (in charge of General Affairs Department and Corporate Planning Department)
Shigesuke Kashiwagi    Head of Global Fixed Income
Yugo Ishida    Regional Management of Europe Region
Atsuo Sakurai    Head of Asset Finance
Masafumi Nakada    Chief Financial Officer, Head of Global Risk Management, Treasury, Controller and IR (in charge of Tax Management Department)
Hiromasa Yamazaki    Head of Global Equity
Kamezo Nakai    (Executive Vice President of Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (NAM))
Takahide Mizuno    (Executive Vice President of NAM)
Atsushi Yoshikawa    (Executive Vice President of NAM)
Yasuaki Fukui    (President of Nomura Funds Research and Technologies Co., Ltd.)


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LOGO

 

Tokyo, June 28, 2005

 

Nomura Approves Share Buyback Program for Second Quarter

 

Nomura Holdings, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors approved a resolution to set up a share buyback program for the second quarter of the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2006, in accordance with Article 211-3-1-2 of Japan’s Commercial Code.

 

The share buyback program will run from July 1, 2005, to September 16, 2005, and have an upper limit of 25 million shares of Nomura Holdings common stock. This translates to a maximum of 37.5 billion yen, or 1.25 percent of outstanding shares.

 

Nomura recognizes the need to set out flexible financial strategies that allow the Board to respond quickly to changes in the business environment and is considering implementing further share buybacks from the third quarter of the current fiscal year. Details will be announced when finalized.

 

As of March 31, 2005, Nomura Holdings had 1,965,919,860 outstanding shares and 23,730,994 shares as treasury stock.

 

 


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For further information please contact:

 

Name


 

Company


 

Telephone


Masafumi Yoshino

Shuji Sato

Mitch Hayes

Larry Heiman

 

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd

Corporate Communications Dept.,

Nomura Group Headquarters

  81-3-3278-0591

 

Notes to editors:

 

The Nomura Group

 

Nomura is a global financial services group dedicated to providing a broad range of financial services for individual, institutional, corporate and government clients. The Group offers a diverse line of competitive products and value-added financial and advisory solutions through its global headquarters in Tokyo, 133 branches in Japan, and an international network in 28 countries; with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York. The Group’s business activities include investment consultation and brokerage services for retail investors in Japan, and, on a global basis, brokerage services, securities underwriting, investment banking advisory services, merchant banking, and asset management. For further information about Nomura please visit our website at www.nomura.com.


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LOGO

 

Tokyo, June 28, 2005

 

Nomura Announces Group Line Head Structures

 

Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced the following Nomura Group Line Heads effective June 28, 2005.

 

1. Business Line Heads

   

Domestic Retail

  Kenichi Watanabe
    Senior Managing Director
    (Executive Vice President
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)

Global Investment Banking

  Takashi Yanagiya
    Senior Managing Director
    (Executive Vice President
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)

Global Markets

  Yasuo Agemura
    Senior Managing Director
    (Executive Managing Director
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)

Global Merchant Banking

  Akira Maruyama
    Senior Managing Director
    (Senior Managing Director
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)

Asset Management

  Takumi Shibata
    Senior Managing Director
    (President
    Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd.)

2. Business Support Line Heads

   

Global Risk Management/ Global Treasury

  Masafumi Nakada

/Global Controller/ Global IR

  Senior Managing Director
    (Senior Managing Director
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)

Global IT & Operations

  Akihiko Nakamura
    Senior Managing Director
    (Senior Managing Director
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)


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Global Corporate Communications

  Tetsu Ozaki
    Senior Managing Director
    (Senior Managing Director
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)

Global Research

  Akihito Watanabe
    Senior Managing Director
    (Senior Managing Director
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)

3. Regional Management

   

Americas

  Hideyuki Takahashi
    Senior Managing Director
    (President & CEO
    Nomura Holding America, Inc.)

Europe

  Yugo Ishida
    Senior Managing Director
    (President
    Nomura Europe Holdings plc)

China

  Noriyasu Yoshizawa
    Senior Managing Director
    (President & Managing Director
    Nomura Asia Holding N.V.)

4. Internal Audit Head

  Masanori Itatani
    Senior Managing Director
    (Executive Managing Director
    Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)

 

 


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For further information please contact:

 

Name


 

Company


 

Telephone


Masafumi Yoshino

Shuji Sato

Mitch Hayes

Larry Heiman

 

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd

Corporate Communications Dept.,

Nomura Group Headquarters

  81-3-3278-0591

 

Notes to editors:

 

The Nomura Group

 

Nomura is a global financial services group dedicated to providing a broad range of financial services for individual, institutional, corporate and government clients. The Group offers a diverse line of competitive products and value-added financial and advisory solutions through its global headquarters in Tokyo, 133 branches in Japan, and an international network in 28 countries; with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York. The Group? business activities include investment consultation and brokerage services for retail investors in Japan, and, on a global basis, brokerage services, securities underwriting, investment banking advisory services, merchant banking, and asset management. For further information about Nomura please visit our website at www.nomura.com.