Edgar Filing: NOMURA HOLDINGS INC

FORM 6-K

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

For the month of December 2011

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)

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Incorporation by Reference

The registrant hereby incorporates Exhibit 1 to this report on Form 6-K by reference (i) in the prospectus that is part of Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Registration No. 333-169682) of the registrant and Nomura America Finance, LLC, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on September 30, 2010, and (ii) in the prospectus that is part of the Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Registration No. 333-165049) of the registrant, filed with the SEC on February 24, 2010, as amended by the Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed with the SEC on September 8, 2010.

Information furnished on this form:

EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number


1.		Nomura Holdings, Inc. Interim Operating and Financial Review

15.		Acknowledgment Letter of Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC

101.INS		XBRL Instance Document⁽¹⁾

101.SCH		XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema⁽¹⁾

101.CAL		XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase⁽¹⁾

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(1)	The Interactive Data File (as defined in Rule II of Regulation S-T) with respect to the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements furnished herein will be furnished separately.

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: December 28, 2011	By:	/s/ Shinji Iwai
		Shinji Iwai
		Senior Managing Director

Exhibit 1

NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC.

INTERIM OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW

TABLE OF CONTENTS



Presentation of Financial and Other Information			1

Recent Developments			2

Risk Factors			3

Operating and Financial Review and Prospects			6

Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (UNAUDITED)

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011			F-2

Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Six Months and Three Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011			F-5

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011			F-7

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Six Months and Three Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011			F-8

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011			F-9

Notes to the Interim Consolidated Financial Statements			F-10

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm			F-75

Presentation of Financial and Other Information

As used in this Form 6-K, references to “Company”, “Nomura”, “we”, “us” and “our” are to Nomura Holdings, Inc. and, except as the context otherwise requires, its consolidated subsidiaries. As part of certain line items in Nomura’s financial statements and information included in this Form 6-K, references to “NHI” are to Nomura Holdings, Inc.

Unless otherwise stated, references in this Form 6-K to “yen” and “¥” are to the lawful currency of Japan, references to “U.S. dollars” and “$” are to the lawful currency of the United States of America (“U.S.”). All ownership data with respect to us presented in this Form 6-K is presented based on the voting interest directly or indirectly held by us. Our voting interest is presented in accordance with Japanese reporting requirements, pursuant to which the amount presented with respect to each subsidiary is the percentage of voting rights of such subsidiary held directly by us or our subsidiaries. For example, wholly-owned subsidiaries of our subsidiaries are listed as 100%, regardless of the level of our direct interest in the intermediate subsidiaries.

Amounts shown within this Form 6-K have been rounded to the nearest indicated digit unless otherwise specified. In tables and graphs with rounded figures, sums may not add up due to rounding.

Except as otherwise indicated, all financial information with respect to us presented in this Form 6-K is presented on a consolidated basis. Our fiscal year ends on March 31 of each year. We prepare interim consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”). Our consolidated financial statements, including the notes thereto, for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011 are included elsewhere in this Form 6-K. The interim financial statements included in this Form 6-K have been reviewed in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) by our independent auditors.

Recent Developments

U.S. Financial Reform Act In July 2010, the U.S. enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) which is now the subject of a multi-agency rulemaking process. The rulemakings include, among others, (i) creating a tighter regulatory framework for over-the-counter (“OTC”) derivatives; (ii) establishing a process for designating non-bank financial firms as “systemic”, subject to increased prudential standards and regulatory oversight (“U.S. SIFIs”); (iii) prohibiting material conflicts of interest between those who package and sell asset-backed securities (ABS) and those who invest in them; and (iv) establishing risk retention requirements for ABS. Other aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act and related rulemakings include provisions that (i) prohibit deposit-taking banks and their affiliates from engaging in proprietary trading and limit their ability to make investments in hedge funds and private equity funds (the so-called “Volcker Rule”); (ii) empower regulators to liquidate failing non-bank financial companies that are systemically important; (iii) provide for new systemic risk oversight and increased capital requirements for both bank and non-bank U.S. SIFIs; (iv) provide for a broader regulatory oversight of hedge funds; and (v) new regulations regarding the role of credit rating agencies, investment advisors and others. The exact details of the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act and its impact on Nomura’s operations will depend on the final regulations as they become ultimately adopted by various governmental agencies and oversight boards.

Recent Developments in Capital Adequacy Regulations In December 2010, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the “Basel Committee”) issued the overall documents of the capital and liquidity reform package from Basel II (“Basel III”) in order to promote a more resilient banking sector. The Basel Committee has been taking an active part towards the Basel III implementation in 2013, such as modifying the Basel III rules text which included the amendment to the credit value adjustment in June 2011 and providing “Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties” for public commentary in November 2011; issuing “Basel III-Frequently asked questions” in July, October and November 2011; and announcing “Progress report on Basel III implementation” in October 2011. In addition to the Basel III implementation, the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee at the Group of Twenty (“G-20”) summit in November 2011 identified global systemically important financial institutions (“G-SIFIs”) on which additional capital requirements will be imposed. For further information on Basel III, please see “Consolidated Regulatory Requirements” herein.

Recovery and Resolution Plans On July 19, 2011, the Financial Stability Board published a consultative document to establish a global framework to improve the capacity of authorities to resolve failing systemically important financial institutions without systemic disruption and exposing taxpayers to the risk of loss. The proposed measures require G-SIFIs to prepare and maintain recovery and resolution plans (“RRPs”) by December 2012. In light of such global framework, on August 9, 2011, the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom (“U.K. FSA”) published a consultation on its proposals for RRPs. The consultation covers the requirement for banks and large investment firms in the U.K. and not limited to G-SIFIs, to prepare and maintain RRPs, while a separate discussion paper explores matters relevant to the resolution of financial services firms, including the resolution of trading books, enhancing the resolution toolkit and bail-ins. Following consultation, the U.K. FSA will issue a policy statement in the first quarter of 2012 setting out final rules and guidance with the expectation that firms will have submitted their plans to the U.K. FSA and Bank of England by the end of June 2012. In Japan, also based on international discussions, such as in the Financial Stability Board, the Financial Services Agency (the “FSA”) is working towards the creation of RRPs of financial institutions which are internationally active and conduct large and complex business.

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”) On October 20, 2011 the European Commission published draft legislation for MiFID II. The draft legislation has been split into two parts: the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The draft legislation seeks to introduce wide reaching changes to markets, including the extension of market transparency rules into non-equities and potentially reducing the size of the OTC derivative market by pushing derivatives onto exchanges.

Review of the Market Abuse Directive On October 20, 2011 the European Commission published draft legislation for the review of the Market Abuse Directive (MAD II). The dossier has been split into two parts: the Market Abuse Directive and the Market Abuse Regulation. The draft legislation seeks to strengthen market abuse provisions and introduce measures allowing for effective deterrent of market abuse behaviors.

Bank Levy On January 1, 2011, the U.K. government introduced a tax based on banks’ balance sheets (the “bank levy”). The bank levy applies to U.K. banking groups as well as U.K. subsidiaries or branches of foreign banking groups and is based on liabilities, subject to certain exclusions and offsets. In November 2011, the U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that from January 1, 2012 the bank levy rate will increase from 0.078% to 0.088%.

Japanese Corporate Tax On November 30, 2011, the bill for reconstruction funding after the March 11 earthquake (the “Reconstruction Funding Bill”) and the bill for the remaining items of the 2011 tax reform (the “Tax Reform Bill”) were approved by the Diet. Under the Reconstruction Funding Bill, Special Reconstruction Corporate Tax will be imposed on companies, which will be calculated by multiplying the base corporation tax by 10% and will be effective for three fiscal years from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2015. Under the Tax Reform Bill, the corporate income tax rate will be reduced by 4.5%, effective from the fiscal year beginning on or after April 1, 2012. New tax laws related to these bills were promulgated on December 2, 2011, and as a result the domestic statutory tax rates will be approximately 38% for the next three fiscal years and approximately 36% thereafter.

Risk Factors

Set forth below are material changes from the risks as previously disclosed in Part I, Item 3.D "Risk Factors" of our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2011. The following is to amend and update only the corresponding language of the disclosure in Part I, Item 3.D of such annual report.

You should read the following in conjunction with the risks factors otherwise disclosed in such annual report, including additional paragraphs from the relevant risk factors that we have not repeated below.

Our business may be materially affected by financial markets and economic conditions and market fluctuations in Japan and elsewhere around the world

Over recent years, continuous disruptions have lead to an acute downturn in the markets and economic conditions in Japan and elsewhere around the world. In 2008 and through to early 2009, the financial services industry, global securities markets and real economies, especially in developed countries, were materially and adversely affected by a world-wide market crisis and dislocation. While the world economy grew in 2010 due to stimuli from expansive monetary and fiscal policies, in 2011 the manifestation of financial problems in the U.S. and the worsening of financial, economic and structural issues in the peripheral countries of the Eurozone, including Greece, have adversely influenced major global financial markets. Global markets also face new challenges, for example political instability in certain regions such as the Middle East, and the economic outlook in the medium to long term remains uncertain.

In addition, not only purely economic factors but also future war, acts of terrorism, economic or political sanctions, pandemics, geopolitical risks and events, natural disasters or other similar events could have a material adverse effect on economic and financial market conditions. For example, with respect to our home market of Japan, the economic downturn has been prolonged and some time may be required for recovery due to the economic consequences arising from direct and indirect negative effects of the East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, including damages to nuclear power plants and resulting power shortages, and supply line disruptions. A sustained market/economic downturn can adversely affect our business and can result in substantial losses. Even in the absence of a prolonged market/economic downturn, we may incur substantial losses due to market volatility. Also, governmental fiscal and monetary policy changes in Japan and other jurisdictions where we conduct business and other business environmental changes may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our business is subject to substantial legal, regulatory and reputational risks

Tightening of regulations applicable to the financial system and financial industry could adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.

If regulations that apply to our businesses are introduced, modified or removed, we could be adversely affected directly or through resulting changes in market conditions. For example, to improve the stability and transparency of Japan’s financial system and to ensure the protection of investors, a bill to amend the FIEA was passed by the Diet, which became effective on April 1, 2011, excluding certain sections. The amendment strengthened supervision through introducing corporate group regulations, which we are subject to, such as consolidated capital adequacy regulations on financial instruments business operators the size of which exceeds specified parameters and on certain parent companies, and by requiring reports on the financial status of such companies. In addition, the Financial Services Agency (the “FSA”) amended the “Comprehensive Guidelines for Supervision of Financial Instruments Business Operators, etc.” which became effective on April 1, 2011. Such amendment includes, among others, restrictions on the compensation systems of corporate groups of specified parent company, including Nomura Group, which are designed to reduce excessive risk taking by their executives and employees.

In addition, in response to the financial markets crisis in the autumn of 2008, various reforms to the financial regulatory framework at a national level and by international agreements, such as the agreements reached at the Group of Twenty (G-20) Summit, are undergoing to restore financial stability and to enhance financial industry’s resilience against future crises. Such proposals for reform include the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) in the U.S. and various proposals to strengthen financial regulation in the European Union and the United Kingdom (“U.K.”). The impact of these proposals (including bank levy) on us and our industry may be significant. However, policy responses to such proposals and amendment of existing systems are still ongoing and are difficult to precisely predict at this point.

The changes in regulations on accounting standards, consolidated regulatory capital adequacy rules and liquidity ratio could also have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. For example, we currently calculate our consolidated regulatory capital adequacy ratio in accordance with the FSA’s notice on Basel II based consolidated capital adequacy rules applicable to the Ultimate Designated Parent Company. Although specific rules to implement the Basel III measures announced by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the “Basel Committee”) are yet to be finalized in Japan by the FSA, the implementation of those new measures may cause our capital adequacy ratio to decrease or may require us to liquidate assets, raise additional capital or otherwise restrict our business activities in a manner that could adversely increase our funding costs or could otherwise adversely affect our operating or financing activities or the interests of our shareholders. Further, based on Basel III, the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee have announced they will annually update the list of global systemically important financial institutions (“G-SIFIs”) identified by financial regulators and additional regulatory capital requirements imposed on those G-SIFIs. The costs and impact on us as described above may further increase if we are identified as a G-SIFI in the future.

The financial services industry is intensely competitive and rapidly consolidating

Our global business strategies may not result in the anticipated outcome due to competition with other financial services firms in international markets and the failure to realize the full benefits of management resource reallocation

We believe that there are significant opportunities in the international markets, but there is also significant competition for such opportunities. In order to take advantage of those opportunities, we will have to compete successfully with financial services firms based in important non-Japanese markets, including the U.S., Europe and Asia. Some of these financial services firms are larger in scale and better capitalized, are able to secure talented human resources and have a stronger local presence in these markets. As a means to bolster our international operations, we acquired certain Lehman operations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia in 2008 and we have been rebuilding and expanding our operations in these regions and the U.S. However, in light of an increasing sense of uncertainty associated with market conditions and the global economy from various unstable factors including the European sovereign debt crisis, many competitor financial services firms have announced plans to reduce costs. We have also begun to carry out plans to reduce costs aimed at reallocating management resources and lowering our breakeven point. Such optimization of management resource reallocation for our global businesses is critical to our global management strategy, and if we fail to realize the full benefits of these efforts our global business strategy and financial condition may be adversely affected.

Special Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements

This report contains forward-looking statements that are based on our current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about our business, our industry and capital markets around the world. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may”, “will”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “plan” or similar words. These statements discuss future expectations, identify strategies, contain projections of our results of operations or financial condition, or state other forward-looking information.

Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause our actual results, performance, achievements or financial position to differ materially from any future results, performance, achievements or financial position expressed or implied by any forward-looking statement contained in this report. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors are set forth in “Risk Factors” above and in Item 3.D of our annual report on Form 20-F for the full year ended March 31, 2011, as well as elsewhere in this Form 6-K.

Operating and Financial Review and Prospects

Results of Operations—Six Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011

The interim financial statements included in this Form 6-K have not been audited but have been reviewed in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) by our independent auditors. The unaudited interim consolidated financial statements are prepared on a basis substantially consistent with the audited consolidated financial statements included in our Form 20-F filed on June 30, 2011.

Overview

The following table provides selected consolidated statements of operations information for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011.


	Millions of yen except per share data
	Six Months Ended September 30,
	2010			2011
Non-interest revenues:
Commissions	¥	201,598		¥	182,706
Fees from investment banking		45,258			27,589
Asset management and portfolio service fees		68,566			75,767
Net gain on trading		162,962			93,484
Gain (loss) on private equity investments		(1,909	)		(8,265	)
Gain (loss) on investments in equity securities		(16,028	)		(3,141	)
Other		28,270			196,342

Total non-interest revenues		488,717			564,482
Net interest revenue		46,730			67,472

Net revenue		535,447			631,954
Non-interest expenses		507,379			642,228

Income (loss) before income taxes		28,068			(10,274	)
Income tax expense		23,100			15,947

Net income (loss)		4,968			(26,221	)

Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests		1,595			2,100

Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	3,373		¥	(28,321	)

Return on shareholders’ equity (annualized)⁽¹⁾		0.3	%		(2.7	%)

(1)	Calculation method: Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders divided by average Total NHI shareholders’ equity multiplied by two.

Net revenue increased by 18.0% from ¥535,447 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥631,954 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011. Commissions decreased by 9.4%, due primarily to decreasing commissions for distribution of investment trusts. Asset management and portfolio service fees increased by 10.5%, due primarily to a steady increase of mandates from institutional investors outside Japan. Net gain on trading decreased by 42.6%, due primarily to the adverse market conditions and fiscal instability in Europe. Other increased by 594.5%, due primarily to Nomura increasing its stake in Nomura Land and Building Co., Ltd. (“NLB”), one of its affiliated companies, by acquiring additional NLB shares and thereby making it a consolidated subsidiary during the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Net interest revenue was ¥67,472 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011 and ¥46,730 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010. Net interest revenue is a function of the level and the total mix of assets and liabilities, which includes trading assets and financing and lending transactions, and the level, term structure and volatility of interest rates. Net interest revenue is an integral component of our trading business. In assessing the profitability of our overall business and of our Wholesale operation in particular, we view net interest revenue and non-interest revenues in the aggregate.

Non-interest expenses increased by 26.6% from ¥507,379 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥642,228 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011, due primarily to the NLB acquisition.

We are subject to a number of different taxes in Japan and have adopted the consolidation tax system permitted under Japanese tax law. The consolidation tax system only imposes a national tax. Since April 1, 2004, our domestic statutory tax rate has been approximately 41%. Our foreign subsidiaries are subject to the income tax rates of the countries in which they operate, which are generally lower than those in Japan. Our effective tax rate in any one year is therefore dependent on our geographic mix of profits and losses and also on the specific tax treatment applicable in each location.

For the six months ended September 30, 2010, the difference between the domestic statutory tax rate of approximately 41% and the effective tax rate of 82.3% was mainly due to non-deductible expenses, different tax rates and changes in statutory tax rates applicable to income (loss) of foreign subsidiaries.

For the six months ended September 30, 2011, the difference between the domestic statutory tax rate of approximately 41% and the effective tax rate of negative 155.2% was mainly due to an increase in valuation allowance of foreign subsidiaries, whereas non-taxable revenue increased the effective tax rate.

Net loss attributable to NHI shareholders was ¥28,321 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011 and net income attributable to NHI shareholders was ¥3,373 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010. Our annualized return on shareholders’ equity was negative 2.7% for the six months ended September 30, 2011 and 0.3% for the six months ended September 30, 2010.

Retail

In Retail, we receive commissions and fees from investment consultation services which we provide mainly to individual clients in Japan. Additionally, we receive operational fees from asset management companies in connection with the administration services of investment trusts certificates that we distribute. We also receive agent commissions from insurance companies for the insurance products we sell as an agent.


	Millions of yen
	Six Months Ended September 30,
	2010		2011
Non-interest revenues	¥	197,336	¥	176,685
Net interest revenue		1,376		1,484

Net revenue		198,712		178,169
Non-interest expenses		138,191		145,426

Income before income taxes	¥	60,521	¥	32,743

Net revenue decreased by 10.3% from ¥198,712 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥178,169 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011. The primary factor for the decreased net revenue was due to decrease in commissions from distribution of investment trusts.

Non-interest expenses increased by 5.2% from ¥138,191 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥145,426 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Income before income taxes decreased by 45.9% from ¥60,521 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥32,743 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

The following graph shows the revenue composition by instrument in terms of Retail non-interest revenues for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011.

LOGO

As described above, revenue composition of investment trusts and asset management decreased from 61% for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to 60% for the six months ended September 30, 2011, due primarily to a decrease in commissions from distribution of investment trusts. Revenue composition of equities decreased from 19% for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to 15% for the six months ended September 30, 2011, due primarily to the stock market slowdown. Revenue composition of bonds increased from 18% for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to 23% for the six months ended September 30, 2011, due primarily to an increase in sales of foreign currency-denominated bonds. Revenue composition of variable annuity insurance was at 2% for both six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011.

The following graph shows amounts and details regarding the composition of retail client assets at September 30, 2010 and 2011.

LOGO

Total retail client assets decreased by ¥2.0 trillion from ¥68.1 trillion at September 30, 2010 to ¥66.1 trillion at September 30, 2011. Retail client assets consist of clients’ assets held in our custody and assets relating to variable annuity insurance products.

Asset Management

Our Asset Management business is conducted principally through Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“NAM”). We earn portfolio management fees through the development and management of investment trusts, which are distributed by Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (“NSC”), other brokers, banks, Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Network Co., Ltd. We also provide investment advisory services for pension funds and other institutional clients. Net revenue primarily consists of asset management and portfolio services fees that are attributable to Asset Management. Nomura Bank (Luxembourg) S.A. in the Asset Management segment was integrated into “Other” during the six months ended September 30, 2011. In accordance with this integration, certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.


	Millions of yen
	Six Months Ended September 30,
	2010		2011
Non-interest revenues	¥	29,697	¥	33,110
Net interest revenue		2,262		1,684

Net revenue		31,959		34,794
Non-interest expenses		23,793		22,635

Income before income taxes	¥	8,166	¥	12,159

Net revenue increased by 8.9% from ¥31,959 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥34,794 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011, due primarily to inflows to investment trusts and contributions to overseas investment advisory business.

Non-interest expenses decreased by 4.9% from ¥23,793 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥22,635 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Income before income taxes increased by 48.9% from ¥8,166 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥12,159 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

The following table sets forth assets under management of each principal Nomura entity included under Asset Management as of the dates indicated.


	Billions of yen
	September 30,
	2010			2011
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd.	¥	24,424		¥	24,625
Nomura Funds Research and Technologies Co., Ltd.		2,448			2,338
Nomura Corporate Research and Asset Management Inc.		1,369			1,238
Nomura Private Equity Capital Co., Ltd.		532			537
Nomura Asset Management Deutschland KAG mbH.		233			235
Nomura Funds Research and Technologies America, Inc.		210			345

Combined total		29,216			29,317

Overlapping asset accounts among group companies		(5,879	)		(6,597	)

Total	¥	23,337		¥	22,720

Assets under management were ¥22.7 trillion as of September 30, 2011, a ¥0.6 trillion decrease from September 30, 2010. The greatest proportion of these assets was managed by NAM with assets under management of ¥24.6 trillion as of September 30, 2011.

Domestic publicly offered investment trust assets included in the assets under management by NAM were ¥12.7 trillion as of September 30 2011, a ¥0.6 trillion or 4% decrease from September 30, 2010. Although the assets under management have declined due to the market downturn, we saw solid inflows into our products. For the investment advisory business, assets under management were ¥9.2 trillion as of September 30, 2011, a ¥1.0 trillion or 12% increase from September 30, 2010.

The following table shows NAM’s share, in terms of net asset value, in the Japanese asset management market as of the dates indicated. As of September 30, 2011, NAM’s market share in publicly offered investment trusts was 22%, 17% for stock investment trusts and 43% for bond investment trusts.


	September 30,
	2010			2011
Total of publicly offered investment trusts		21	%		22	%
Stock investment trusts		17	%		17	%
Bond investment trusts		42	%		43	%

Wholesale

The formal establishment of the Wholesale Division from April 2010 led to closer collaboration between business lines and as a result we have executed a number of cross-divisional transactions between Global Markets and Investment Banking.


	Millions of yen
	Six Months Ended September 30,
	2010			2011
Non-interest revenues	¥	227,883		¥	152,150
Net interest revenue		44,131			68,416

Net revenue		272,014			220,566
Non-interest expenses		305,519			308,517

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	(33,505	)	¥	(87,951	)

Net revenue decreased by 18.9% from ¥272,014 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥220,566 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Non-interest expenses increased by 1.0% from ¥305,519 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥308,517 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Loss before income taxes were ¥33,505 million and ¥87,951 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011, respectively.

Global Markets

We have a proven track record in sales and trading of bonds, stocks, and foreign exchange, as well as derivatives based on these financial instruments, mainly to domestic and overseas institutional investors. In response to the increasingly diverse and complex needs of our clients, we are building up our trading and product origination capabilities to offer superior products not only to domestic and overseas institutional investors but also to Retail and Asset Management. This cross-divisional approach also extends to Investment Banking, where close collaboration leads to high value-added solutions for our clients.

We continue to develop extensive ties with institutional investors in Japan and international markets; wealthy and affluent investors, public-sector agencies, and regional financial institutions in Japan; and government agencies, financial institutions, and corporations around the world. These ties enable us to identify the types of products of interest to investors and then to develop and deliver products that meet their needs.


	Millions of yen
	Six Months Ended September 30,
	2010			2011
Net revenue	¥	240,784		¥	202,711
Non-interest expenses		246,006			245,576

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	(5,222	)	¥	(42,865	)

Net revenue decreased by 15.8% from ¥240,784 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥202,711 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011, due primarily to decreases in trading revenue in association with the turbulent financial market conditions in Europe. Loss before income taxes were ¥5,222 million and ¥42,865 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011, respectively.

Investment Banking

We provide a broad range of investment banking services, such as underwriting and advisory activities to a diverse range of corporations, financial institutions, sovereigns, investment funds and others. We underwrite offerings of debt, equity and other financial instruments in Asia, Europe and other major financial markets. We have been enhancing our M&A and financial advisory expertise to secure more high profile deals both across and within regions. We develop and forge solid relationships with these clients on a long-term basis by providing extensive resources in a seamless fashion to facilitate bespoke solutions.


	Millions of yen
	Six Months Ended September 30,
	2010			2011
Investment Banking (Gross)	¥	68,757		¥	56,078
Allocation to other divisions		(31,876	)		(25,671	)
Investment Banking (Net)		36,881			30,407
Other		(5,651	)		(12,552	)

Net revenue		31,230			17,855
Non-interest expenses		59,513			62,941

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	(28,283	)	¥	(45,086	)

Net revenue decreased by 42.8% from ¥31,230 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 to ¥17,855 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011, due to the weakness of equity finance associated with the adverse market environment. Loss before income taxes were ¥28,283 million and ¥45,086 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011, respectively.

Other Operating Results

Other operating results include net gain (loss) related to economic hedging transactions, realized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes, equity in earnings of affiliates, corporate items, and other financial adjustments. See Note 14 “Segment and geographic information” to our interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 6-K.

Net revenue was positive ¥48,327 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and positive ¥202,064 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011. Non-interest expenses were ¥39,876 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and ¥165,650 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011. Income before income taxes in other operating results was ¥8,451 million for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and ¥36,414 million for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Other operating results for the six months ended September 30, 2011 include the gains from changes in the fair value of the financial liabilities, for which the fair value option was elected, attributable to the change in Nomura’s creditworthiness, of ¥10.4 billion, the positive impact of its own creditworthiness on derivative liabilities, which resulted in gain of ¥8.0 billion and the losses from changes in counterparty credit spread of ¥13.7 billion.

Number of Employees

The following table shows the number of our employees as of the date indicated:


	September 30,
	2010		2011
Japan		15,401		22,183
Europe		4,471		4,492
Americas		2,186		2,537
Asia (excluding Japan) and Oceania		5,371		6,485

Total		27,429		35,697

During the current period, Nomura increased its stake in NLB, one of its affiliated companies, by acquiring additional NLB shares and thereby made it a subsidiary. The number of employees as of September 30, 2011 increased by 8,268 compared to September 30, 2010 due primarily to this acquisition.

Summary of Regional Contributions

For a summary of our net revenue, income (loss) before income taxes and long-lived assets by geographic region, see Note 14, “Segment and geographic information” in our interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 6-K.

Regulatory Capital Requirements

Many of our business activities are subject to statutory capital requirements, including those of Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and certain other countries in which we operate.

Translation Exposure

A significant portion of our business is conducted in currencies other than yen—most significantly, U.S. dollars, British pounds and Euros. We prepare financial statements of each of our consolidated entities in its functional currency, which is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates. Translation exposure is the risk arising from the effect of fluctuations in exchange rates on the net assets of our foreign subsidiaries. Translation exposure is not recognized in our consolidated statements of operations unless and until we dispose of, or liquidate, the relevant foreign subsidiary, which historically has not occurred, and which we do not expect to occur frequently.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Use of estimates

In preparing our consolidated financial statements, management makes estimates regarding certain financial instrument and investment valuations, the outcome of litigation and tax examinations, the recovery of the carrying value of goodwill, the allowance for doubtful accounts, the realization of deferred tax assets and other matters that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as well as the disclosures in these consolidated financial statements. Estimates, by their nature, are based on judgment and available information. Therefore, actual results may differ from estimates, which could have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements, and it is possible that such adjustments could occur in the near term.

Fair value for financial instruments

A significant amount of our financial assets and financial liabilities are carried at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statements of operations on a recurring basis. Use of fair value is either specifically required under U.S. GAAP or we make an election to use fair value for certain eligible items under the fair value option.

Other financial assets and financial liabilities are carried at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, where the primary measurement basis is not fair value. Fair value is only used in specific circumstances such as to measure impairment.

In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 820 “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” (“ASC 820”), all financial instruments measured at fair value have been categorized into a three-level hierarchy based on the transparency of inputs used to establish fair value.

Level 1:

Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities accessible by us at the measurement date.

Level 2:

Quoted prices in inactive markets or prices containing other inputs which are observable, either directly or indirectly. Valuation techniques using observable inputs reflect assumptions used by market participants in pricing financial instruments and are based on data obtained from independent market sources at the measurement date.

Level 3:

Unobservable inputs that are significant to the fair value measurement of the financial instrument. Valuation techniques using unobservable inputs reflect management’s assumptions about the estimates used by other market participants in valuing similar financial instruments. These valuation techniques are developed based on the best available information at the measurement date.

Financial instruments are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement of the instruments. A derivative valued using a combination of Level 1, 2 and 3 inputs would be classified as Level 3, where the Level 3 inputs are significant in its measurement.

The valuation of Level 3 financial assets and liabilities are dependent on certain parameters which cannot be observed or corroborated in the market. This can be the case if, for example, the specific financial instrument is traded in an inactive market. Common characteristics of an inactive market include a low number of transactions of the financial instrument; stale or non-current price quotations; price quotations that vary substantially either over time or among market makers; or little publicly released information. Unobservable parameters include volatility risk and correlation risk for derivative instruments; refinancing periods and recovery rates for credit-related products and loans; and macroeconomic factors affecting the value of collateral for asset-backed securitization products.

If corroborative evidence is not available to value Level 3 financial instruments, fair value may be established using other equivalent products in the market. The level of correlation between the specific Level 3 financial instrument and the available benchmark instrument is considered an unobservable parameter. Other techniques for determining an appropriate value for unobservable parameters may take into account information such as consensus pricing data among certain market participants, historical trends, extrapolation from observable market data and other information we would expect market participants to use in valuing similar instruments.

Level 3 financial assets excluding derivatives as a proportion of total financial assets excluding derivatives, carried at fair value on a recurring basis was 5% as of September 30, 2011 as listed below:


	Billions of yen, except percentage
	September 30, 2011
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Counterparty and Cash Collateral Netting			Total		The proportion of Level 3
Financial assets measured at fair value (Excluding derivative assets)	¥	7,826	¥	7,215	¥	727	¥	—		¥	15,768		5	%
Derivative assets		922		26,556		591		(26,136	)		1,933
Derivative liabilities		940		26,393		606		(26,278	)		1,661

See Note 3, “Fair value of financial instruments” in our interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 6-K for further information.

Private equity business

All private equity investments made by investment company subsidiaries pursuant to the provisions of ASC 946 “Financial Services—Investment Companies” (“ASC 946”) are accounted for at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statement of operation.

The valuation of unlisted private equity investments at fair value requires significant management judgment because these investments, by their nature, have little or no price transparency. Private equity investments are initially carried at cost as an approximation of fair value. Adjustments to carrying value are made if there is third-party evidence of a change in value. Adjustments are also made, in the absence of third-party transactions, if it is determined that the expected realizable value of the investment is different from the carrying value. In reaching that determination, we primarily use either our own internal valuation models based on projected future cash flows to be generated from the underlying investment, discounted at a weighted average cost of capital or comparable market valuations such as EV/EBITDA (Enterprise Value/EBITDA), PE Ratio (Price/Earnings Ratio), Price/Embedded Value Ratio and other multiples based on relationships between numbers reported in the financial statements and the price of comparable companies. Where possible these valuations are compared with the operating cash flows and financial performance of the companies or properties relative to budgets or projections, price/earnings data for similar quoted companies, trends within sectors and/or regions and any specific rights or terms associated with the investment, such as conversion features and liquidation preferences.

Any changes to valuations are then stress tested to assess the impact of particular risk factors in order to establish the final estimated valuation. For more information on our private equity activities, see “Private Equity Business” herein.

Assets and Liabilities Associated with Investment and Financial Services Business

Exposure to Certain Financial Instruments and Counterparties

Challenging market conditions continue to impact numerous products including securitization products and leveraged finance to which we have certain exposure. We also have exposures to Special Purpose Entities (“SPEs”) and others in the normal course of business.

Securitization Products

Our exposure to securitization products consists of commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”), residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”), commercial real estate-backed securities and other securitization products. We hold these securitization products in connection with securitization, financing, trading and other activities. The following table provides a summary of our exposure to securitization products by geographic region of the underlying collateral as of September 30, 2011.


	Millions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Japan		Asia and Oceania		Europe		Americas		Total⁽¹⁾
Commercial mortgage-backed securities⁽²⁾	¥	5,652	¥	—	¥	8,355	¥	38,593	¥	52,600
Residential mortgage-backed securities⁽³⁾		19,507		286		23,447		260,566		303,806
Commercial real estate-backed securities		16,054		—		—		—		16,054
Other securitization products⁽⁴⁾		80,326		692		13,064		137,968		232,050

Total	¥	121,539	¥	978	¥	44,866	¥	437,127	¥	604,510

(1)	The balances shown exclude those for which we transferred financial assets to securitization vehicles where such transfers were accounted for as secured financings rather than sales under ASC 860 “Transfers and Servicing” (“ASC 860”), and in which we have no continuing economic exposures.

(2)	We have ¥22,255 million exposure, as whole loans and commitments, to U.S. CMBS-related business as of September 30, 2011.

(3)	The RMBS balance for Americas excludes mortgage pass-through securities and U.S. government guaranteed collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO) because their credit risks are considered minimal.

(4)	Other securitization products mainly include collateralized loan obligations (CLO), collateralized debt obligations (CDO) and asset-backed securities (ABS) (e.g., credit card loans, auto loans, student loans, home equity loans and etc.).

The following table provides our exposure to CMBS by geographical region and external credit rating of the underlying collateral as of September 30, 2011.


	Millions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	AAA		AA		A		BBB		BB		B		Not rated		GSE⁽¹⁾		Total
Japan	¥	641	¥	—	¥	940	¥	668	¥	1,266	¥	—	¥	2,137	¥	—	¥	5,652
Europe		—		773		2,177		1,959		1,910		688		848		—		8,355
Americas		7,366		7,140		6,077		5,357		9,861		846		1,946		—		38,593

Total	¥	8,007	¥	7,913	¥	9,194	¥	7,984	¥	13,037	¥	1,534	¥	4,931	¥	—	¥	52,600

(1)	“GSE” refers to government sponsored enterprises.

(2)	Rating based on the lowest rating given by Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service, Fitch Ratings Ltd., Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd. or Rating and Investment Information, Inc. as of September 30, 2011.

Leveraged Finance

We provide loans to clients in connection with leveraged buy-outs and leveraged buy-ins. As this type of finance is usually initially provided through a commitment, we have both funded and unfunded exposures on these transactions.

The following table sets forth our exposure to leveraged finance by geographic region of the target company as of September 30, 2011.


	Millions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Funded		Unfunded		Total
Japan	¥	3,132	¥	5,000	¥	8,132
Europe		77,226		6,409		83,635
Americas		—		1,124		1,124
Asia and Oceania		4,247		608		4,855

Total	¥	84,605	¥	13,141	¥	97,746

Special Purpose Entities

Our involvement with these entities includes structuring, underwriting, as well as, subject to prevailing market conditions, distributing and selling debt instruments and beneficial interests issued by these entities. In the normal course of securitization and equity derivative activities business, we also act as a transferor of financial assets to, and underwriter, distributor and seller of, repackaged financial instruments issued by these entities. We retain, purchase and sell variable interests in SPEs in connection with our market-making, investing and structuring activities. Our other types of involvement with SPEs include guarantee agreements and derivative contracts.

For further discussion on Nomura’s involvement with variable interest entities (“VIEs”), see Note 6, “Securitizations and Variable Interest Entities” in our interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 6-K.

Accounting Developments

See Note 1, “Summary of accounting policies: Changes in accounting policies” in our interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 6-K.

Private Equity Business

We make private equity investments primarily in Japan and Europe.

Private equity investments made by certain entities which we consolidate under either a voting interest or variable interest model which are investment companies pursuant to the provisions of ASC 946 are accounted for at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statements of operations. Investment company accounting applied by each of these investment company subsidiaries is retained in our interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 6-K.

These entities make private equity investments solely for capital appreciation, current income or both rather than to generate strategic operating benefits to us. In accordance with our investment policies, non-investment companies within the group may not make investments in entities engaged in non-core businesses if such investments would result in consolidation or application of the equity method of accounting. Such investments may generally only be made by investment company subsidiaries. Non-core businesses are defined as those engaged in activities other than our business segments.

We also have a subsidiary which is not an investment company but which makes investments in entities engaged in our core businesses. These investments are made for capital appreciation or current income purposes or both and are also carried at fair value, either because fair value is carried by election of the fair value option or other U.S. GAAP requirements.

Private equity business in Japan

We have an established private equity business in Japan, which is operated primarily through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Nomura Principal Finance Co., Ltd (“NPF”).

Since its inception in 2000, NPF has made investments in 21 entities and exited from 20 of these investments. The fair value of its investment portfolio is ¥71,165 million as of September 30, 2011.

NPF is an investment company subsidiary pursuant to the provisions of ASC 946 and therefore carries all of its investments at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statements of operations.

We also make private equity investments through another wholly-owned subsidiary, Nomura Financial Partners Co., Ltd. (“NFP”). NFP is not an investment company subsidiary as it invests in the entities engaged in our core business. We elected the fair value option to account for its 45.5% investment in the common stock of Ashikaga Holdings Co., Ltd and it is reported in Private equity investments in the consolidated balance sheets.

Private equity business in Europe

In Europe, our private equity investments primarily comprise legacy investments made by its former Principal Finance Group (“PFG”) now managed by Terra Firma (collectively referred to as the “Terra Firma Investments”), investments in other funds managed by Terra Firma (“Other Terra Firma Funds”) and through other investment company subsidiaries (“Other Investments”).

Terra Firma Investments

Following a review to determine the optimum structure for our European private equity business, on March 27, 2002, we restructured our PFG and, as a result, contributed our investments in certain of our remaining investee companies to Terra Firma Capital Partners I (“TFCP I”), a limited partnership which is engaged in the private equity business, in exchange for a limited partnership interest. Terra Firma Investments (GP) Limited, the general partner of TFCP I, which is independent of us, assumed the management and control of these investments, together with one other PFG investment, Annington Holdings plc, which due to contractual restrictions was not transferred to the partnership.

With effect from March 27, 2002, we ceased consolidating the Terra Firma Investments and accounted for those investments at fair value in accordance with ASC 946.

The Terra Firma Investments are held by entities which are investment company subsidiaries and therefore we continue to account for these investments at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statements of operations.

The fair value of the Terra Firma Investments was ¥90,078 million as of September 30, 2011.

Other Terra Firma Funds

In addition to the Terra Firma Investments, we are a 10% investor in a ¥202 billion private equity fund (“TFCP II”) and a 2% investor in a ¥538 billion private equity fund (“TFCP III”), also raised and managed by Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited.

Our total commitment for TFCP II was originally ¥20,191 million and reduced to ¥3,853 million as a result of adjustments for recyclable distributions. As of September 30, 2011, ¥3,777 million had been drawn down for investments.

For TFCP III, our total commitment is ¥10,192 million and ¥7,449 million had been drawn down for investments as of September 30, 2011.

The investments in TFCP II and TFCP III are carried at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statements of operations.

Other Investments

We also make private equity investments in Europe through wholly-owned subsidiaries and other consolidated entities which have third party pooling of funds. Certain of these entities are investment company subsidiaries and therefore all of their investments are carried at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statements of operations.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Liquidity

We define liquidity risk as the potential inability to meet financial obligations as they become due. This risk could arise from an inability to access the secured or unsecured debt markets, a deterioration in our credit ratings, a failure to manage unplanned changes in funding requirements, a failure to liquidate assets quickly and with minimal loss in value, or changes in regulatory capital restrictions which may prevent the free flow of funds between different group entities. Liquidity risk could be due both to Nomura-specific and market-wide events. Liquidity risk management policy is based on risk appetite which the Group Integrated Risk Management Committee formulates upon delegation by the Executive Management Board (“EMB”). Our primary objective for liquidity risk management is to ensure continuous liquidity across market cycles and periods of market stress, and to ensure that all funding requirements and unsecured debt obligations that fall due within one year can be met without additional unsecured funding or forced liquidation of assets.

We have in place a number of Liquidity Risk Management frameworks that enable us to achieve our primary liquidity objective. These frameworks include (1) Centralized Control of Residual Cash; (2) Appropriate Funding and Diversification of Funding Sources and Maturities Commensurate with the Composition of Assets; (3) Management of Credit Lines to Nomura Group Entities; (4) Implementation of Liquidity Stress Tests; and (5) Contingency Funding Plan.

Our EMB has the authority to make decisions concerning the group liquidity management. The Chief Financial Officer has the operational authority and responsibility over our liquidity management based on decisions made by the EMB.

1. Centralized Control of Residual Cash. We control centrally residual cash held at Nomura Group entities for effective utilization purposes. As for the usage of funds, we manage the overall level of unsecured funding and set internal limits on the additional amount of unsecured funding available across the Nomura Group. The limit for unsecured funding is set by the EMB and monitored closely by Global Treasury.

In order to enable us to transfer funds smoothly among the group entities, we limit issuance of securities by regulated broker-dealers or banking entities. We actively seek to concentrate issuance of all long-term unsecured, non-deposit funding instruments at either Nomura or unregulated issuing entities. The primary benefits of this strategy include cost minimization, wider investor name recognition and greater flexibility in providing funding to various subsidiaries across the Nomura Group.

2. Appropriate Funding and Diversification of Funding Sources and Maturities Commensurate with the Composition of Assets. We seek to maintain a surplus of long-term debt and equity above the cash capital requirements of our assets. This enables us to fund our operations for at least one year in a stress event, without needing to raise additional unsecured funding or forcing the liquidation of assets. The amount of liquidity required is based on an internal model which incorporates the following requirements.

(i)

Our ability to finance assets using secured funding, including repurchase agreements and securities lending transactions. The cash capital requirements are calculated using conservative estimates of the assets secured borrowing power in stressed scenarios.

(ii)

Goodwill and identifiable intangible assets, property, equipment and other illiquid assets.

(iii)

Collateral requirements on derivative contracts arising as a result of a two-notch downgrade in our credit rating.

Collateral requirements to support potential increased intraday collateral requirements from our clearers and settlement agents arising as a result of a two-notch downgrade in our credit rating.

In addition, other unencumbered assets held at exchanges for chaining requirements are also funded with long-term liquidity.

(iv)

Commitments to lend to external counterparties based on the probability of drawdown.

(v)

Capital or other forms of financing in our regulated subsidiaries that is in excess of their long-term cash capital requirements.

Our internal model takes into account legal, regulatory and tax restrictions that may impact the ability to freely transfer liquidity across the entities within the group.

We routinely issue long term-debt in various maturities and currencies to maintain a long-term funding surplus, and to also achieve both cost-effective funding and a maturity profile where the average duration of our debt is sufficient to meet our long-term cash capital requirements. We therefore seek to maintain an average maturity for plain vanilla instruments greater than or equal to three years. The average maturity (for debt securities and borrowings with maturities longer than one year) was 4.57 years as of September 30, 2011. Approximately 80% of our medium-term notes are structured and linked to interest or equity, indices, currencies or commodities. Conditions for calls by indices are individually set. These maturities are evaluated based on our internal model and monitored by Global Treasury. Maturities for plain vanilla debt securities and borrowings are evaluated based on contractual maturities. Where there is a possibility that notes may be called prior to their scheduled maturity date, maturities are based on our internal stress option adjusted model. This model values the embedded optionality under stress market conditions in order to determine when the note is likely to be called.

On this basis, the average maturity of structured notes (notes with maturities longer than one year) was 11.56 years as of September 30, 2011. The average maturity of our entire long term debt portfolio, including plain vanilla debt securities and borrowings, was 7.63 years as of September 30, 2011. The graph below shows the distribution of maturities of our outstanding long-term debt securities and borrowings.

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(1)	Redemption schedule is individually estimated by considering of probability of redemption. Due to structure bias, we use probability adjusted by a certain stress factor.

We typically fund our trading activities on a secured basis through secured borrowings and repurchase agreements. We believe these funding activities in the secured markets are more cost-efficient and less credit-rating sensitive than financing in the unsecured market. Also, repurchase agreements tend to be short-term, often overnight. We manage the liquidity risks arising from secured funding by transacting with a diverse group of global counterparties, providing a diversified range of securities collateral and actively seeking to term out the tenor of certain transactions.

We seek to reduce refinancing risk through diversification of our funding sources. We diversify funding by product, investor and market in order to reduce our reliance on any one funding source. We benefit by distributing a significant portion of our debt through our retail and institutional sales force to a diversified global investor base.

We believe that maintaining relationships with our investors is critical to our liquidity strategy.

We also seek to diversify funding by currency. The proportion of our non-yen denominated long-term debt decreased to 27.6% of total term debt outstanding as of September 30, 2011 from 28.5% as of March 31, 2011.

We diversify funding by issuing various types of debt instruments—these include both structured loans and notes. Structured notes are debt obligations with returns linked to other debt or equity securities, indices, currencies or commodities.


	Billions of yen, except percentages
	March 31, 2011				September 30, 2011
Short-term unsecured debt total⁽¹⁾	¥	2,634.3	23.6	%	¥	3,078.6	26.0	%
Short-term bank borrowings		884.3				1,235.5
Other loans		84.8				108.4
Commercial paper		379.5				394.5
Deposit at banking entities		573.1				675.8
Certificates of deposit		184.0				171.7
Bonds and notes maturing within one year		528.6				492.7
Long-term unsecured debt total		6,466.9	57.8	%		6,719.1	56.8	%
Long-term deposit at banking entities		55.5				84.7
Long-term bank borrowings		1,999.6				2,646.5
Other loans		188.8				153.7
Bonds and notes⁽²⁾		4,223.0				3,834.2
NHI shareholders’ equity	¥	2,082.8	18.6	%	¥	2,037.6	17.2	%

(1)	Short-term unsecured debt includes the current portion of long-term unsecured debt.

(2)

Excluding “Long-term bonds and notes issued by consolidated VIEs” that meet the definition of VIEs under ASC 810, “Consolidation” and secured financing transactions recognized within long-term borrowings as a result of transfers of financial assets that are accounted for as financings rather than sales in accordance with ASC 860.

In terms of funding, NHI, NSC, Nomura Europe Finance N.V. and Nomura Bank International plc are the main entities for external borrowings, issuances and others. Having raised the funds to match the currencies and liquidities of assets, we pursue optimization of our funding structures.

For this six months ended September 30, 2011, we issued ¥45.4 billion senior unsecured bonds in the domestic market. In December 2011, we also issued ¥170 billion subordinated bond in the domestic market.

3. Management of Credit Lines to Nomura Group entities. We maintain committed facility agreements with financial institutions for Nomura Group entities in order to provide contingent financing sources. The total amount of our unused committed facilities was ¥155.6 billion as of September 30, 2011. We have structured the facilities to ensure that the maturity dates of these facilities are distributed evenly throughout the year in order to prevent excessive maturities of facilities in any given period. While the ability to borrow under these facilities is subject to customary lending conditions and covenants, we do not believe that any of the covenant requirements will impair our ability to draw on them. We occasionally test the effectiveness of our drawdown procedures.

4. Implementation of Liquidity Stress Tests. We maintain our liquidity portfolio and monitor the sufficiency of our liquidity based on an internal model which simulates changes in cash outflow under specified stress scenarios to comply with our above mentioned liquidity management policy.

We assess the firm’s liquidity requirements under various stress scenarios with differing levels of severity over multiple time horizons. We evaluate these requirements under company-specific and broad market wide events, including potential credit rating downgrades at the parent company and subsidiary levels that may impact us by loss of access to unsecured capital markets, additional collateral posting requirements, limited or no access to secured funding markets and other events. We call this risk analysis our “Maximum Cumulative Outflow” framework.

To ensure a readily available source for a potential liquidity requirement, we maintain a liquidity portfolio in the form of cash and highly liquid, unencumbered securities that may be sold or pledged to provide liquidity. As of September 30, 2011, our liquidity portfolio was ¥5,585.6 billion which generated a liquidity surplus taking into account a stress scenario as defined in our liquidity risk policy. We recognize that the liquidity standards for financial institutions continue to be the subject of further discussion among the relevant supervisory bodies including the Basel Committee. The existing model and simulations upon which we currently rely may need to be reviewed depending on any new development in this area. Our liquidity portfolio is composed of following highly liquid products.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011
Liquidity Portfolio	¥	5,819.1	¥	5,585.6
Cash, Cash Equivalent and Time Deposits		1,959.7		1,058.5
Overnight Call Loans		8.3		59.5
Government Securities		3,851.1		4,467.6

In addition to the liquidity portfolio, we have ¥1,633.9 billion of other unencumbered assets comprising mainly unpledged trading assets that can be used as an additional source of secured funding. The aggregate value of our liquidity portfolios and other unencumbered assets as of September 30, 2011 was ¥7,219.5 billion—this represented 234.5% of our total unsecured debt maturing within one year.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011
Net Liquidity Value of Other Unencumbered Assets	¥	1,806.9	¥	1,633.9
Liquidity Portfolio		5,819.1		5,585.6

Total	¥	7,626.0	¥	7,219.5

In the stress test, we assume the cash outflow as shown below and also consider the assumption that in certain instances, legal and regulatory requirements can restrict the flow of funds between entities in our consolidated group, and funds or securities may not freely move among us.

The size and structure of our liquidity portfolio takes into account immediate cash requirements arising from:

(i)

Upcoming maturities of unsecured debt (maturities less than 1 year)

(ii)

Potential buybacks of our outstanding debt

(iii)

Loss of secured funding lines particularly for less liquid assets, over and above our cash capital estimates

(iv)

Fluctuation of funding needs under normal business circumstances

(v)

Cash and collateral outflows in a stress event

We constantly evaluate and modify our liquidity risk assumptions based on regulatory and market changes. The model we use in order to simulate the impact of stress scenarios assumes no liquidation of assets, no ability to issue additional unsecured funding, a widening of haircuts on outstanding repo funding, collateralization of clearing banks and depositories, drawdowns on loan commitments and loss of liquidity from market losses on inventory.

5. Contingency Funding Plan. We have developed a detailed contingency funding plan to integrate liquidity risk control into our comprehensive risk management strategy and to enhance the quantitative aspects of our liquidity risk control procedures. As a part of the Contingency Funding Plan (“CFP”), we have developed an approach for analyzing and specifying the extent of any liquidity crisis. This allows us to estimate the likely impact of both a Nomura-specific and market-wide crises; and specifies the immediate action to be taken to mitigate any risk. The CFP lists details of key internal and external parties to be contacted and the processes by which information is to be disseminated. This has been developed at the legal entity level in order to capture specific cash requirements at the local level—it assumes that the parent company does not have access to cash that may be trapped at the subsidiary level due to regulatory, legal or tax constraints. We periodically test the effectiveness of our funding plans for different Nomura-specific and market-wide events. We also have access to operations at central banks such as the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank, which provide financing against various types of securities. These operations are accessed in the normal course of business and are an important tool in mitigating contingent risk from market disruptions.

Cash Flow

Cash and cash equivalents as of September 30, 2010 and as of September 30, 2011 were ¥534.9 billion and ¥551.6 billion, respectively. Cash flows from operating activities for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and September 30, 2011 were outflows of ¥1,095.5 billion and ¥900.1 billion, respectively due primarily to the increase in Trading assets. Cash flows from investing activities for the six months ended September 30, 2010 were outflows of ¥205.1 billion due primarily to an increase in Non-trading debt securities, net and those for September 30, 2011 were inflows of ¥43.3 billion due primarily to a decrease in Other, net. Cash flows from financing activities for the six months ended September 30, 2010 were inflows of ¥838.6 billion due primarily to an increase in borrowings and those for September 30, 2011 were outflows of ¥183.2 billion due primarily to a decrease in borrowings.

Balance Sheet and Financial Leverage

Total assets as of September 30, 2011, were ¥36,935.7 billion, an increase of ¥242.7 billion compared to ¥36,693.0 billion as of March 31, 2011, due primarily to increases in Trading assets and Office buildings, land, equipment and facilities. Total liabilities as of September 30, 2011, were ¥34,621.3 billion, an increase of ¥19.9 billion compared to ¥34,601.4 billion as of March 31, 2011, this was due primarily to an increase in Other liabilities and Long-term borrowings including the newly consolidated portion. NHI shareholders’ equity as of September 30, 2011 was ¥2,037.6 billion, a decrease of ¥45.2 billion compared to ¥2,082.8 billion as of March 31, 2011, due to a decrease in Retained earnings.

We seek to maintain sufficient capital at all times to withstand losses due to extreme market movements. The EMB is responsible for implementing and enforcing capital policies. This includes the determination of our balance sheet size and required capital levels. We continuously review our equity capital base to ensure that it can support the economic risk inherent in our business. There are also regulatory requirements for minimum capital of entities that operate in regulated securities or banking businesses.

As leverage ratios are commonly used by other financial institutions similar to us, we voluntarily provide a Leverage ratio and Adjusted leverage ratio primarily for benchmarking purposes so that users of our annual report can compare our leverage against other financial institutions. There are currently no regulatory or statutory reporting requirements which require us to disclose leverage ratios.

The following table sets forth total NHI shareholders’ equity, total assets, adjusted assets and leverage ratios:


	Billions of yen, except ratios
	March 31, 2011			September 30, 2011
Total NHI shareholders’ equity	¥	2,082.8		¥	2,037.6
Total assets⁽¹⁾		36,693.0			36,935.7
Adjusted assets⁽²⁾		21,536.7			22,484.1
Leverage ratio⁽³⁾		17.6	x		18.1	x
Adjusted leverage ratio⁽⁴⁾		10.3	x		11.0	x

(1)

Reconciles to the total assets amount disclosed on the face of our consolidated balance sheets and therefore excludes the fair value of securities transferred to counterparties under repo-to-maturity and certain Japanese securities lending transactions which are accounted for as sales rather than collateralized financing arrangements. The fair value of securities derecognized under these agreements has not had a significant impact on our reported Leverage and Adjusted leverage ratios as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011.

(2)	Represents total assets less Securities purchased under agreements to resell and Securities borrowed.

(3)	Equals total assets divided by Total NHI shareholders’ equity.

(4)	Equals adjusted assets divided by Total NHI shareholders’ equity.

Total assets increased by 0.7% reflecting primarily the increase in Trading assets and Office buildings, land, equipment and facilities. Total NHI shareholders’ equity decreased by 2.2%. Our Leverage ratio went up from 17.6 times as of March 31, 2011 to 18.1 times as of September 30, 2011.

Adjusted assets increased due to the decrease in Securities purchased under agreements to resell. As a result, our Adjusted leverage ratio went up from 10.3 times as of March 31, 2011 to 11.0 times as of September 30, 2011.

Allocable value shall not offset positive numbers in other business lines and shall be treated as zero.

Capital Management

Capital Management Policy

We seek to enhance shareholder value and to capture growing business opportunities by maintaining sufficient levels of capital. We review levels of capital as appropriate, taking into consideration the economic risks inherent to operating our businesses, the regulatory requirements, and maintaining our ratings necessary to operate businesses globally.

Dividends

Nomura believes that pursuing sustainable increase in shareholder value and paying dividends are essential to generating returns to our shareholders. Nomura will strive to pay stable dividends using a consolidated payout ratio of 30 percent as a key indicator.

Dividend payments will be determined taking into account a comprehensive range of factors such as the tightening of Basel regulations and other changes to the regulatory environment, as well as the company’s consolidated financial performance.

Nomura paid dividend of ¥4.0 per share for the first half in line with its dividend policy for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012.

With respect to the retained earnings, in order to implement measures to adapt to regulatory changes and to increase shareholder value, we seek to efficiently invest in business areas where high profitability and growth may reasonably be expected, including the development and expansion of infrastructure.

The following table sets forth the amounts of dividends per share paid by us in respect of the periods indicated:


Fiscal year ended or ending March 31,	First Quarter		Second Quarter		Third Quarter		Fourth Quarter		Total
2007	¥	8.00	¥	8.00	¥	8.00	¥	20.00	¥	44.00
2008		8.50		8.50		8.50		8.50		34.00
2009		8.50		8.50		8.50		—		25.50
2010		—		4.00		—		4.00		8.00
2011		—		4.00		—		4.00		8.00
2012		—		4.00

Stock Repurchases

We consider repurchase of treasury stock as an option in our financial strategy to respond quickly to changes in the business environment. We make announcements immediately after any decision to set up a share buyback program and conduct such programs in accordance with internal guidelines.

Consolidated Regulatory Requirements

The FSA established the “Guideline for Financial Conglomerate Supervision” (“Financial Conglomerate Guideline”) in June 2005 and set out the rule on consolidated regulatory capital. We started monitoring our consolidated capital adequacy ratio in accordance with the Financial Conglomerate Guideline from April 2005.

Beginning from the end of March, 2009, we elected to calculate the consolidated capital adequacy ratio according to the Bank Holding Companies Notice as permitted under the Financial Instruments Business Operators Guidelines, although we continue to be monitored as a financial conglomerate governed by Financial Conglomerate Guideline. The Bank Holding Companies Notice incorporates the rules set out in “International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework” published with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel II).

Nomura has been assigned as Ultimate Designated Parent Company who must calculate the consolidated regulatory capital adequacy ratio according to the “Criteria for Ultimate Designated Parent Companies to judge whether their capital adequacy status is appropriate in light of their own and their subsidiaries’ asset holdings” (“Upstream Consolidated Regulatory Capital Notice”) in April 2011. Since then, we have been calculating our Basel II-based consolidated regulatory capital adequacy ratio according to the Upstream Consolidated Regulatory Capital Notice.

In addition, we must maintain our consolidated regulatory capital adequacy ratio of at least 8% according to Article 1 of the Upstream Consolidated Regulatory Capital Notice. As of September 30, 2011, we were in compliance with this requirement, with a ratio of total capital to risk-weighted assets of 19.6%.

The following table presents Nomura’s consolidated capital adequacy ratio as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011:


	Billions of yen, except ratios
	March 31, 2011			September 30, 2011
Qualifying Capital
Tier 1 capital	¥	1,915.0		¥	2,049.8
Tier 2 capital		651.5			449.1
Tier 3 capital		139.6			132.2
Deductions		121.8			101.4


Total qualifying capital	¥	2,584.3		¥	2,529.7


Risk-Weighted Assets
Credit risk-weighted assets	¥	7,468.4		¥	8,556.1
Market risk equivalent assets		2,442.3			2,313.7
Operational risk equivalent assets		1,718.8			2,029.4


Total risk-weighted assets	¥	11,629.5		¥	12,899.2


Consolidated Capital Adequacy Ratios
Consolidated capital adequacy ratio		22.2	%		19.6	%
Tier 1 capital ratio		16.4	%		15.8	%

Total qualifying capital is comprised of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 capital. Our Tier 1 capital mainly consists of NHI shareholders’ equity and non-controlling interests less goodwill and certain intangible fixed assets.

Tier 2 and Tier 3 capital consist of subordinated debt classified to Tier 2 and Tier 3 by original maturity and other conditions set out by the Upstream Consolidated Regulatory Capital Notice.

Market risk is calculated using Nomura’s VaR model as permitted under the Upstream Consolidated Regulatory Capital Notice. On March 31, 2011, we started calculating credit risk assets and operational risk using foundation Internal Ratings-Based approach and The Standardized Approach, respectively. Prior to that, we calculated these risks applying the Standardized Approach for credit risk and the Basic Indicator Approach for operational risk, respectively.

We provide Tier 1 capital ratio and consolidated capital adequacy ratio not only to demonstrate that we are in compliance with regulatory requirements set out by the FSA but also for benchmarking purposes so that users of our report can compare our capital position against those of other financial groups under the same Basel framework. Management receives and reviews these capital ratios on a regular basis.

The Basel Committee has issued a series of announcements regarding a broader program designed to strengthen the regulatory capital framework in light of weaknesses revealed by the financial crises. The following is a summary of the proposals which are most relevant to us.

On July 13, 2009, the Basel Committee announced its approval of a package of measures designed to strengthen its rules governing trading book capital and to enhance the three pillars of the Basel II framework. This announcement states that the Basel Committee’s trading book rules, effective at the end of 2011, will introduce higher capital requirements to capture the credit risk of complex trading activities. Such trading rules also include a stressed VaR requirement. Also, on June 18, 2010, the Basel Committee announced its minor adjustments on the treatment for securitization products.

On December 16, 2010, in an effort to promote a more resilient banking sector, the Basel Committee issued Basel III, that is, “International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring” and “A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems”. The proposals include raising the quality, consistency and transparency of the capital base; strengthening the risk coverage of the capital framework such as the implementation of credit value adjustment charge for over-the-counter derivative trade; introducing a leverage ratio requirement as a supplemental measure to the risk-based framework; and introducing a series of measures to address concerns over the “procyclicality” of the current framework. The proposals also introduce a minimum liquidity standard including a 30-day liquidity coverage ratio as well as a longer-term structural liquidity ratio. Additional capital, liquidity or other supervisory measures to reduce the externalities created by systemically important institutions are also under review. These standards will be phased in gradually from 2013.

After the release of Basel III text, the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee continued to review additional capital, liquidity or other supervisory measures to reduce the externalities created by global systemically important financial institutions (“G-SIFIs”). On July 19, 2011, they announced consultation documents on measures to address G-SIFIs. These documents address the risks caused by G-SIFIs and the systemic risk to financial systems and moral hazard risk caused by the “too-big-to-fail” problem. The final proposals were submitted to the G-20 summit in November 2011.

The FSA introduced the notices such as Upstream Consolidated Regulatory Capital Notice on consolidated regulation and supervision of securities companies on a consolidated basis on April 1, 2011 to improve the stability and transparency of Japan’s financial system and ensure the protection of investors. It reviewed the Upstream Consolidated Regulatory Capital Notice according to the proposal on trading book review of the Basel II framework and the revised notice will be implemented at the end of December 2011. Also it is expected that the revised notice will incorporate a series of rules and standards from the Basel III framework described above in line with the schedule proposed by the Basel Committee.

Credit Ratings

The cost and availability of unsecured funding generally are dependent on credit ratings. Our long-term and short-term debt is rated by several recognized credit rating agencies. We believe that our credit ratings include the credit ratings agencies’ assessment of the general operating environment, our positions in the markets in which we operate, reputation, earnings structure, trend and volatility of our earnings, risk management framework, liquidity and capital management. An adverse change in any of these factors could result in a downgrade of our credit ratings, and that could, in turn, increase our borrowing costs and limit our access to the capital markets or require us to post additional collateral and permit counterparties to terminate transactions pursuant to certain contractual obligations. In addition, our credit ratings can have a significant impact on certain of our trading revenues, particularly in those businesses where longer term counterparty performance is critical, such as OTC derivative transactions.

As of November 30, 2011, the credit ratings of NHI and NSC were as follows:


Nomura Holdings, Inc.	Short-term Debt		Long-term Debt
Standard & Poor’s		A-2		BBB+
Moody’s Investors Service		—		Baa2
Rating and Investment Information, Inc.		a-1		A+
Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd.		—		AA-

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.	Short-Term Debt		Long-term Debt
Standard & Poor’s		A-2		A-
Moody’s Investors Service		P-2		Baa1
Rating and Investment Information, Inc.		a-1		A+
Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd.		—		AA-

Both Rating and Investment Information, Inc. and Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd. are credit rating agencies nationally recognized in Japan. We rely on, or utilize, credit ratings on our long-term and short-term debt provided by these Japanese credit rating agencies, as well as Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service, for unsecured funding and other financing purposes and also for our trading and other business activities. Within the rating classification system of Rating and Investment Information, Inc., “a-1” is the highest of five categories for short-term debt and indicates “a strong degree of certainty regarding the debt repayment”; and “A” is the third highest of nine categories for long-term debt and indicates “a high degree of certainty regarding the debt repayment with excellence in specific component factors”, with a plus (+) or minus (-) sign added to a rating in that category to indicate its relative standing within that category. Within the rating classification system of Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd., “AA” is the second highest of ten categories for long-term debt and indicates “a very high level of capacity to honor the financial commitment on the obligation”, with a plus (+) or minus (-) sign added to a rating in that category to indicate its relative standing within that category.

There has been no change to the ratings in the above table since the date indicated.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

Off-balance sheet entities

In the normal course of business, we engage in a variety of off-balance sheet arrangements with off-balance sheet entities which may have an impact on Nomura Group’s future financial position and performance.

Off-balance sheet arrangements with off-balance sheet entities include the following where Nomura Group has:

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an obligation under a guarantee contract;

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a retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an off-balance sheet entity or similar arrangement that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support;

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any obligation, including a contingent obligation, under a contract that would be accounted for as a derivative instrument; or

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any obligation, including contingent obligation, arising out of a variable interest in an off-balance sheet entity that is held by, and material to, us, where such entity provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit risk support to, or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with, us.

Off-balance sheet entities may take the form of a corporation, partnership, fund, trust or other legal vehicle which is designed to fulfill a limited, specific purpose by its sponsor. We both create or sponsor these entities and also enter into arrangements with entities created or sponsored by others.

Our involvement with these entities includes structuring, underwriting, distributing and selling debt instruments and beneficial interests issued by these entities, subject to prevailing market conditions. In the normal course of business, we also act as a transferor of financial assets to these entities, as well as, and underwriter, distributor and seller of asset-repackaged financial instruments issued by these entities, in connection with our securitization and equity derivative activities. We retain, purchase and sell variable interests in Special Purpose Entities (“SPEs”) in connection with our market-making, investing and structuring activities. Our other types of off-balance sheet arrangements include guarantee agreements and derivative contracts. Significant involvement is assessed based on all of our arrangements with these entities, even if the probability of loss, as assessed at the balance sheet date, is remote.

For further information about transactions with VIEs, see Note 6, “Securitization and Variable Interest Entities” in our interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 6-K.

Repurchase and securities lending transactions accounted for as sales

We enter into certain types of repurchase transactions and securities lending transactions which we account for as sales rather than collateralized financings where the criteria for derecognition of the securities transferred under ASC 860 are met. These consist of repo-to-maturity transactions, certain Japanese securities lending transactions and, to a lesser extent, Japanese Gensaki transactions.

We enter into repo-to-maturity transactions to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities between the cash security and repo markets. These transactions involve the sourcing of specific securities in the market and contemporaneously entering into repurchase agreements with different counterparties where the maturity of the agreement matches the maturity of the security transferred as collateral. We account for these transactions as sales rather than collateralized financings where the criteria for derecognition of the securities transferred under ASC 860 are met. The amounts of securities derecognized from our consolidated balance sheets under open repo-to-maturity transactions as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011 were ¥169,766 million and ¥58,946 million, respectively.

We engage in certain Japanese securities lending transactions for funding purposes under which we transfer long securities (such as Japanese listed equities). The agreements supporting these transactions include varying margining requirements, but the amount of cash we borrow from our counterparties is typically significantly less than the fair value of securities we lend. We account for these transactions as sales in our consolidated financial statements where the criteria for derecognition of the transferred financial assets under ASC 860 are met. In particular, we do not maintain effective control over the transferred financial assets as we are not able to be returned the transferred financial assets on substantially agreed terms, even in the event of default by the transferee. The amounts of securities derecognized from our consolidated balance sheets under open securities lending transactions as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011 were ¥291,870 million and ¥227,481 million, respectively. Nomura will adopt ASU 2011-03 “Transfers and Servicing (Topic 860): Reconsideration of Effective Control for Repurchase Agreements” from January 1, 2012. These transactions undertaken after adoption date will be accounted for as secured borrowings rather than sales in these consolidated financial statements as the criteria for derecognition of the transferred financial assets under ASC 860 will no longer be met.

Contractual Obligations

During the six months ended September 30, 2011, real estate companies and an insurance company became our subsidiaries. As a result, we incurred commitments to purchase real estate for sale and rental, and liabilities related to the insurance business, respectively. Since March 31, 2011, there have been no other material changes outside our ordinary course of business in connection with our standby letters of credit and other guarantees, long-term borrowings, operating lease commitments, capital lease commitments, purchase obligations, commitments to extend credit, commitments to invest in partnership and commitments to purchase aircraft.

For further details on our commitments, contingencies and guarantees, see Note 13, “Commitments, contingencies and guarantees” in our interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 6-K.

Risk Management

The business activities of Nomura are exposed to various risks such as market risk, credit risk, operational risk and other risks caused by external factors. We have established a risk management framework to provide comprehensive controls, monitoring and reporting of these risks in order to maintain financial soundness and our corporate values.

Global Risk Management Structure

Governance

The Board of Directors has established the “Structure for Ensuring Appropriate Business of Nomura Holdings, Inc.” defining basic principles and establishing framework for the management of risk of loss. In addition, they are continuously making efforts to improve, strengthen and develop our risk management capabilities under this framework. The Group Integrated Risk Management Committee (“GIRMC”), upon delegation of the EMB, has established the “Integrated Risk Management Policy”, describing our overall risk management framework including the fundamental principles concerning risk management and organization and this is under continuous improvement.

Basic Principles of Risk Management

We define risks as (i) the potential erosion of Nomura Group’s capital base due to unexpected losses from business operations, (ii) the potential lack of access to funds due to deterioration of the Nomura Group’s creditworthiness or deterioration in market conditions, and (iii) the potential failure of revenues to cover expenses due to the deterioration of the earnings environment or deterioration of efficiency or effectiveness of business operations.

It is a fundamental principle that all Directors, Executive Managing Directors, Senior Managing Directors, Corporate Auditors and employees of Nomura regard themselves as principals of risk management and appropriately manage risks arising in the course of day-to-day business operations. At the same time, we practice prudent risk management at an individual entity level within the group and also identify, evaluate and appropriately manage risks within each of the business departments, risk management departments and internal audit departments, each and all.

Fundamental Policy of Risk Management

Our fundamental policy concerning risk management is to control risks arising in the course of business operations to the confines of the company’s risk appetite, which is clearly established based on risk tolerance in line with group-wide business strategy, business targets, management strength and financial base. We endeavor to radicate this risk appetite into actual business operations.

Our risk appetite consists of quantitative and qualitative factors. Targets are set for such quantitative factors as capital adequacy, liquidity and profitability. Targets also set for such qualitative factors as Zero Tolerance Risk, which are risk that Nomura shall tolerate to no extent whatsoever, and for Minimum Tolerance Risk, which is a risk that we may tolerate to a limited extent in consideration of profit potential, risk mitigation methods, monitoring capability and other factors, respectively.

We endeavor to measure risks using quantitative methods to the greatest extent possible and to continually improve our risk measurement methods. We use economic capital for the risks measured by quantitative methods collectively and use it as the principal reference for assessment of capital adequacy, capital allocation and risk management. When evaluating risks by quantitative methods, we conduct stress testing as a complementary measure to analyze and evaluate the potential impact of each type of risk on our capital base.

Risk Management Organizations

The organizational structure and core bodies tasked with risk management in Nomura are shown in the following chart.

Executive Management Board

The EMB deliberates on and determines our management strategy, allocation of management resources and important management matters of Nomura by promoting the effective use of management resources and execution of business with the unified objective to contribute to increasing of shareholder value.

Group Integrated Risk Management Committee

The GIRMC deliberates on and determines important matters concerning integrated risk management of Nomura upon delegation by the EMB for contributing to the sound and effective management of the business. The GIRMC is a core organization for group-wide risk management and establishes our risk appetite and the framework of integrated risk management in accordance with our risk appetite.

Chief Risk Officer

The Chief Risk Officer (“CRO”) is responsible for supervising the Risk Management Department and maintaining the effectiveness of the risk management framework independently from the business units within Nomura. The CRO not only regularly reports on the status of our risk management to the GIRMC, but also reports to and seeks the approval of the GIRMC on measures required for risk management.

Chief Financial Officer

The Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) has the operational authority and responsibility over our liquidity management. Liquidity risk management policy is based on the risk appetite which the GIRMC formulates. Our primary objective for liquidity risk management is to ensure continuous liquidity across market cycles and periods of stress, and to ensure that all funding requirements and unsecured debt obligations that fall due within one year can be met without additional unsecured funding or forced liquidation of trading assets.

Risk Management Unit

The Risk Management Unit is defined as collectively the Group Risk Management Department and departments or units in charge of risk management established independently from the business units of Nomura entities. The Risk Management Department is responsible for establishing and operating risk management processes, establishing and enforcing risk management policies and regulations, verifying the effectiveness of risk management methods, gathering reports from Nomura entities, reporting to Executive/Senior Managing Directors and the GIRMC and others and also reporting to regulatory bodies and handling of regulatory applications concerning risk management methods and other items.

Classification and Definition of Risk

We classify and define risks as follows and have established departments or units to manage each risk type.


Risk Category		Summary Description
Market Risk		Risk of losses arising from fluctuations in values of financial assets and liabilities (including off balance sheet items) due to fluctuations in market risk factors (interest rates, foreign exchange rates, prices of securities and others).

Credit Risk		Risk of losses arising from decrease or disappearance of asset values (including off-balance sheet items) due to deteriorations in creditworthiness or default of an obligor or counterparty.

Country Risk		Risk caused about by a country’s political, economic, legal, conventional, religious or other characteristics inherent to the country or risk of losses arising from changes in a country’s situation due to a change of regime, decrease in predictability and stability of political measures, economic downturn or social turmoil.

Operational Risk		Risk of loss associated with inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events.

System Risk		Within Operational Risk, risk of losses due to system defects including, but not limited to computer crash or malfunction, or risk of losses due to unauthorized use of computers.

Liquidity Risk		Risk of losses arising from difficulty in securing necessary funding or from a significantly higher cost of funding than normal levels due to deterioration of our creditworthiness or deterioration in market conditions.

Business Risk		Risk of failure of revenues to cover costs due to deterioration in the earnings environment or deteriorations in the efficiency or effectiveness of business operations.

Market Risk

We define market risk as potential loss in the value of an asset resulting from changes in market prices, rates, indices, volatilities, correlations or other market factors. This type of risk primarily impacts our trading activities. Effective management of this risk requires the ability to analyze a complex and constantly changing global market environment, identify problematic trends and ensure that appropriate action is taken in a timely manner. Our principle statistical measurement tool to assess and limit market risk on an ongoing basis is Value-at-Risk (“VaR”). Limits on VaR are set in line with the firm’s risk appetite as expressed through economic capital. In addition to VaR, we use stress testing and scenario analysis to measure and analyze our market risk. Market risk is monitored against a set of approved limits, with daily reports delivered to senior management.

Value-at-Risk

VaR is the potential loss in the value of our trading positions due to adverse movements in markets over a defined time horizon with a specified confidence level. We estimate VaR using a 99% confidence level and a one-day time horizon for our trading portfolio. Market risks that are incorporated in the VaR model include equity prices, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, and associated volatilities and correlations. The historical data to calculate volatilities and correlations is weighted to give greater importance to more recent observations.

VaR Methodology, Assumptions and Limitations. We make a number of assumptions and approximations in relation to the modeling of the risk characteristics of our trading positions. Different assumptions, approximations or a combination of them could result in a materially different VaR. We believe that the assumptions and approximations we use are reasonable.

Trading Portfolio Risk

The following tables show our VaR as of each of the dates indicated for substantially all of our trading positions:


	Hundred millions of yen
	Mar. 31, 2011			Apr. 29, 2011			May 31, 2011			Jun. 30, 2011			Jul. 29, 2011			Aug. 31, 2011			Sep. 30, 2011
Equity	¥	17.8		¥	18.8		¥	16.4		¥	15.9		¥	16.8		¥	20.6		¥	18.8
Interest Rate		40.8			44.1			51.3			43.1			51.8			33.7			40.3
Foreign Exchange		45.3			39.3			41.3			38.3			36.8			31.5			28.4

Subtotal		104.0			102.1			109.1			97.2			105.4			85.8			87.5
Less:
Diversification Benefit		(41.2	)		(41.3	)		(38.0	)		(37.2	)		(36.9	)		(36.0	)		(35.9	)

VaR	¥	62.8		¥	60.8		¥	71.1		¥	60.1		¥	68.5		¥	49.9		¥	51.6


VaR
(maximum)	¥	76.7	May 19, 2011
(average)		60.9	Average for the period from April 1, 2011 to September 30, 2011
(minimum)		49.2	September 15, 2011


	Hundred millions of yen
	Mar. 31, 2010			Apr. 30, 2010			May 31, 2010			Jun. 30, 2010			Jul. 30, 2010			Aug. 31, 2010			Sep. 30, 2010			Oct. 29, 2010			Nov. 30, 2010			Dec. 31, 2010			Jan. 31, 2011			Feb. 28, 2011			Mar. 31, 2011
Equity	¥	26.2		¥	30.3		¥	24.6		¥	19.8		¥	18.5		¥	20.1		¥	21.7		¥	16.8		¥	16.5		¥	20.9		¥	24.8		¥	23.2		¥	17.8
Interest Rate		43.6			47.8			35.8			41.9			45.0			45.4			45.8			46.7			44.3			43.5			40.0			39.7			40.8
Foreign Exchange		105.4			95.4			81.3			76.2			73.9			65.7			66.7			67.2			59.2			50.8			48.1			45.8			45.3

Subtotal		175.3			173.5			141.7			137.9			137.4			131.1			134.1			130.7			120.0			115.2			112.9			108.7			104.0
Less:
Diversification Benefit		(49.7	)		(49.5	)		(38.6	)		(43.6	)		(42.1	)		(45.0	)		(39.8	)		(42.6	)		(41.5	)		(40.6	)		(46.3	)		(44.1	)		(41.2	)

VaR	¥	125.5		¥	123.9		¥	103.1		¥	94.3		¥	95.4		¥	86.1		¥	94.3		¥	88.1		¥	78.5		¥	74.6		¥	66.7		¥	64.6		¥	62.8


VaR
(maximum)	¥	136.2:	April 16, 2010
(average)		91.4:	Average for the period from April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011
(minimum)		60.0:	March 11, 2011

Overall VaR has decreased since March 31, 2011. VaR relating to equity risk decreased from ¥1.78 billion at the end of March 2011 to ¥1.88 billion at the end of September 2011 mainly due to increases in equity related volatility. VaR relating to interest rate risk decreased from ¥4.08 billion at the end of March 2011 to ¥4.03 billion at the end of September 2011. VaR relating to foreign exchange risk decreased from ¥4.53 billion at the end of March 2011 to ¥2.84 billion at the end of September 2011 mainly due to reductions in foreign exchange volatility.

In the preceding year, VaR relating to equity risk decreased from ¥2.62 billion at the end of March 2010 to ¥1.78 billion at the end of March 2011 mainly due to reductions in equity related volatility. VaR relating to interest rate risk decreased from ¥4.36 billion at the end of March 2010 to ¥4.08 billion at the end of March 2011 mainly due to reductions in interest rate related positions. VaR relating to foreign exchange risk decreased from ¥10.54 billion at the end of March 2010 to ¥4.53 billion at the end of March 2011 mainly due to reductions in foreign exchange volatility.

Back-Testing

We compare VaR values with the actual profits and losses in trading portfolio and verify model’s accuracy used in risk measurement. We count the number of actual times that VaR is exceeded and verify whether the number of times is within a predetermined range. If the number of exceptions is greater than the number predicted by the confidence level used for VaR, then we implement any necessary adjustments to the VaR methodology.

Other Measures

In some business lines or portfolios we use additional measures to control or limit risk taking activity. These measures include sensitivity analysis which show the potential changes to a portfolio due to standard moves in market risk factors. Metrics and limits of this type are typically specific to asset types, businesses or strategies and are used to complement VaR and economic capital measures.

Stress Testing

Stress testing represents the potential loss on a portfolio due to the impact of applying a severe yet feasible scenario. We have a comprehensive program of stress testing in place ranging from global cross risk class scenarios, such as the “Severe Market and Economic Downturn” and “Severe Rates Rise” used to limit risks against risk appetite at the overall group level, to desk level scenarios/grids designed to limit risks within individual business lines. Stress results are compared and used in conjunction with our economic capital measures. We continue to invest in the development of analysis tools, systems and global team of Risk and Risk IT professionals dedicated to stress testing.

Model Review

Pricing models are used to generate trade valuations and the risk measurement metrics for the management of positions. The Global Model Validation Group validates the appropriateness and consistency of these models, independent of those who design and build the models. As part of this process, the Global Model Validation Group analyzes a number of factors to assess the model’s suitability for the valuation and risk management of a particular product.

Non-Trading Risk

A major market risk in our non-trading portfolio relates to equity investments held for operating purposes which we hold on a long-term basis. Our non-trading portfolio is exposed mainly to volatility in the Japanese stock market. One method that can estimate the market risk in the portfolio is to analyze market sensitivity based on changes in the Tokyo Stock Price Index, or TOPIX, which is a leading index of prices of stocks on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

We use regression analysis covering the previous 90 days which tracks and compares fluctuations in the TOPIX and the market value of our equity investments held for operating purposes. Our simulation indicates that, for each 10% change in the TOPIX, the market value of our operating equity investments held for operating purposes can be expected to change by ¥14,051 million as of March 31, 2011 and ¥11,812 million as of September 30, 2011. The TOPIX closed at 869.38 points as of March 31, 2011 and at 761.17 points as of September 30, 2011. This simulation analyzes data for our entire portfolio of equity investments held for operating purposes. Therefore, it is very important to note that the actual results differ from our expectations because of price fluctuations of individual equities.

Credit Risk

Nomura defines credit risk as risk of losses arising from decrease or disappearance of asset values (including off-balance sheet items) due to deterioration in creditworthiness or default of an obligor.

For controlling credit risk appropriately, we have established basic principles in our Credit Risk Management Policy, a basic policy concerning credit risk management, which are important to meet the various needs of our clients whilst taking appropriate risks and ensuring sufficient returns to increase our corporate values. Under these basic principles, we have established a robust and comprehensive credit risk management framework.

We have been applying the Foundation Internal Rating-Based Approach in calculating credit risk weighted assets for regulatory capital calculations since the end of March 2011. However, the Standardized Approach is still applied to certain business units or asset types, which are considered immaterial to the calculation of credit risk weighted assets.

Credit Risk Management Framework

Under the credit risk management framework, the GIRMC, upon delegation by the EMB, deliberates on and determines important matters concerning integrated risk management of Nomura and accordingly has established important principles concerning credit risk management as described in the Credit Risk Management Policy and other documents. The Global Risk Management Committee, upon delegation by the GIRMC, deliberates on and determines important matters concerning our credit risk management based on strategic risk allocation and risk appetite as determined by the GIRMC.

We have established an organizational structure with an appropriate mutual supervision system of check-and-balances under the CRO. The Credit Department, which is independent from the business units, conducts credit analysis, internal rating assignment, monitoring of credit risk profiles including credit concentration risk and others. Also, the Credit Risk Control Unit (the “CRCU”), also independent from the business units and Credit Department, establishes and maintains procedures and standards, monitoring operations, validation and others items for the Internal Rating System.

The Internal Audit Department, independently from these departments, audits the adequacy of credit risk management.

Method of Credit Risk Management

Internal Rating System

We have established an Internal Rating System to be a unified, exhaustive and objective framework to reasonably evaluate credit risk. Internal ratings consist of obligor ratings, which represent an assessment of an obligor’s creditworthiness and facility ratings, which represent an assessment of potential unrecoverable loss for a facility in default. Internal ratings are classified into 20 grades, which consist of 17 non-default grades and 3 default grades based on creditworthiness.

Obligor ratings are assigned in principle to obligors who fall into the scope of the credit risk weighted assets calculation. In order to appropriately reflect the creditworthiness of obligors, obligor ratings are not only reviewed periodically at least once a year, but also are reviewed as soon as a significant change in the creditworthiness of the obligor is identified. The Credit Department, functionally independent from the business units, is responsible for assigning internal ratings in order to ensure the sound process of rating assignment. The CRCU functionally independent from business units and the Credit Department, is responsible for validating the appropriateness of Internal Rating System at least once a year. In addition, the Internal Audit Department, independent from all other divisions is responsible for auditing the appropriateness of the overall Internal Rating System, as part of Internal Audit’s review of credit risk management.

Management of Individual Credit Exposures

Our main type of credit risk assets are counterparties faced through derivatives transactions or securities financing transactions (“derivatives” in this section.).

Credit exposures against counterparties are managed by means of setting credit limits, basing upon credit analysis of individual obligors. For risk monitoring after transactions, credit limits are managed through the daily calculation of potential credit exposures up to maturity, as well as monitoring the actual creditworthiness of obligors with adequate frequency, based upon which obligor ratings and credit limits are updated.

Credit Risk Mitigation Techniques

We enter into International Swap and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) master agreements or equivalent agreements (called “Master Netting Agreements”) with many of its derivatives counterparties. Master Netting Agreements provide protection to reduce losses potentially incurred by a counterparty default.

In addition, to reduce losses potentially incurred by a counterparty default, Nomura requires collateral to mitigate exposure, principally cash or highly liquid bonds, including U.S. and Japanese government securities, when necessary.

Scope of Credit Risk Management

The scope of credit risk management includes counterparty trading and various debt or equity instruments including loans, private equity investments, fund investments, investment securities and any other as deemed necessary from a credit risk management perspective.

Integrated Management

We evaluate credit risk not only by obligor, but also by obligor group where it is appropriate that their credit risk should be evaluated collectively.

Credit Risk Reporting

The global risk management unit is responsible for monitoring, evaluating and analyzing credit risk and for reporting the status of credit risk to the CRO, Senior Managing Directors in charge of risk management and the GIRMC with appropriate frequency.

Credit Risk Measurement

Credit risk is quantitatively-measured by a globally unified methodology. Credit risk is properly measured to reflect the effect of collateral or a guarantee.

Credit Risk to counterparties to derivatives transaction

We measure our credit risk to counterparties of derivatives transactions as the sum of actual current exposure evaluated daily at its fair value, plus potential exposure until maturity of such transactions. All derivative credit lines are controlled through the risk management units.

As we mentioned previously, we enter into Master Netting Agreements with many of our derivative counterparties. Master Netting Agreements provide protection to reduce our risks of counterparty default and, in some cases, offset our consolidated balance sheet exposure with the same counterparty and provide a more meaningful presentation of our balance sheet credit exposure. In addition, to reduce default risk, we require collateral, principally cash or highly liquid bonds, including U.S. and Japanese government securities when necessary.

The credit exposures in our trading-related derivatives as of March 31, 2011 are summarized in the table below, showing as the fair value by counterparty credit rating and by tenor. The credit ratings are internally determined by our credit unit.


	Billions of yen
Credit Rating	Years to Maturity										Cross-Maturity Netting⁽¹⁾			Total Fair Value		Collateral Obtained		Replacement Cost
Credit Rating	Less than 1 Year		1 to 3 Years		3 to 5 Years		5 to 7 Years		More than 7 Years		Cross-Maturity Netting⁽¹⁾			Total Fair Value		Collateral Obtained		Replacement Cost
														(a)		(b)		(a)-(b)
AAA	¥	2	¥	14	¥	30	¥	14	¥	79	¥	(67	)	¥	72	¥	0	¥	72
AA		133		214		252		177		409		(894	)		291		30		261
A		189		285		308		245		580		(1,197	)		410		125		285
BBB		63		44		72		89		175		(194	)		249		11		238
BB		13		14		13		18		112		(16	)		154		23		131
Other⁽²⁾		112		27		42		32		69		(191	)		91		65		26

Subtotal		512		598		717		575		1,424		(2,559	)		1,267		254		1,013
Listed		367		216		45		5		1		(410	)		224		—		224

Total	¥	879	¥	814	¥	762	¥	580	¥	1,425	¥	(2,969	)	¥	1,491	¥	254	¥	1,237

(1)

This item represents netting of payable balances with receivable balances for the same counterparty across maturity band categories. Receivable and payable balances with the same counterparty in the same maturity category, however, are net within the maturity category. Cash collateral netting against net derivatives in accordance with ASC 210-20 “Balance Sheet—Offsetting” are included.

(2)	“Other” does not necessarily indicate that the counterparties’ credit is below investment grade.

Operational Risk

Overview of Operational Risk Management

Nomura defines operational risk as the risk of loss associated with inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems or from external events. This is an industry standard definition based on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision definition of operational risk.

The GIRMC has approved the Nomura Global Operational Risk Management Policy, which defines the fundamental policy and framework for operational risk management across Nomura Group in order to meet business and regulatory needs. This Policy is supported by further minimum standards and procedures to clearly set out a consistent framework for the management of operational risk.

Operational Risk Principles

We adopt the industry standard “Three Lines of Defense” for the management of operational risk, comprising the following elements:

1st Line of Defense: The business which owns and manages its risks

2nd Line of Defense: The Operational Risk Management (“ORM”) function, which defines and co-ordinates the operational risk strategy and framework

3rd Line of Defense: Internal and External Audit, who provide independent assurance

The Governing Body: The GIRMC, with delegated authority from the EMB, which provides formal oversight

This ensures appropriate oversight and independent review and challenge of operational risk management throughout the company.

Operational Risk Management Framework

We have established an operational risk management framework comprising certain key products, services and processes. This framework is shown below:

Infrastructure of the framework

•

Policy framework: Sets minimum standards for operational risk and details how to monitor adherence to these standards

•

Training and awareness: Action taken by ORM to improve business understanding of ORM

Products and Services

•

Scenario analysis: Process to identify high impact, low probability ‘tail events’

•

Event reporting: Process to obtain information on and learn from actual events impacting on the company and relevant external events

•

Key Risk Indicators (“KRI”): Metrics which allow monitoring of certain key operational risks

•

Risk and Control Self Assessment (“RCSA”): Process to identify key risks, controls and action plans

Outputs

•

Analysis and reporting: Key aspect of ORM role to analyze and report on ORM information and work with business to develop actions

•

Operational risk capital calculation: Calculate operational risk capital under Basel II provisions

Operational Risk Classification

We use the standard Basel II event type as operational risk classifications (namely, Internal Fraud, External Fraud, Employee Practices and Workplace Safety, Clients, Products & Business Practices, Damage to Physical Assets, Business Disruption and System Failures and Execution, Delivery & Process Management).

Basel II regulatory capital calculation for operational risk

We use The Standardized Approach (“TSA”) for calculating regulatory capital for operational risk. This involves using the three years average of gross income, allocated to business lines and multiplied by a fixed percentage determined by the FSA, to establish the amount of required operational risk capital.

We use consolidated net revenue as gross income. Gross income allocation is performed by mapping the net revenue of each given segment from management accounting data to each business line in accordance with the categories:


Business Line	Description	Beta Factor
Retail Banking	Retail deposit and loan-related services		12%
Commercial Banking	Deposit and loan-related services except for Retail Banking business		15%
Payment and Settlement	Payment and settlement services for clients’ transactions		18%
Retail Brokerage	Securities-related services mainly for individuals		12%
Trading and Sales	Market-related business		18%
Corporate Finance	M&A, underwriting, secondary and private offerings, and other funding services for clients		18%
Agency Services	Agency services for clients such as custody		15%
Asset Management	Fund management services for clients		12%

•

Nomura then calculates capital for every business line by multiplying respectively allocated annual gross income by the corresponding factors set out above. Any unallocable gross income is multiplied by a fixed percentage of 18%.

•

The total Operational Risk capital is calculated as the three-year average of the simple summation of the amounts across each of the business lines and unallocable value in each year. However, where the aggregate capital charge (gross income times beta factor) across all business lines within a given year is negative, then the capital charge for that year will be zero.

•

In any given year, negative numbers in any business line shall offset positive numbers in other business lines. However, negative numbers in unallocable value shall not offset positive numbers in other business lines and shall be treated as zero.

Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (UNAUDITED)


	Page

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011		F-2

Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Six Months and Three Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011		F-5

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011		F-7

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Six Months and Three Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011		F-8

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2010 and 2011		F-9

Notes to the Interim Consolidated Financial Statements		F-10

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		F-75

F-1

Consolidated Financial Statements

Consolidated Balance Sheets (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011			September 30, 2011			September 30, 2011
ASSETS
Cash and cash deposits:
Cash and cash equivalents	¥	1,620,340		¥	551,639		$	7,160
Time deposits		339,419			506,817			6,579
Deposits with stock exchanges and other segregated cash		190,694			224,559			2,915

Total cash and cash deposits		2,150,453			1,283,015			16,654

Loans and receivables:
Loans receivable (including ¥554,180 million and ¥289,073 million ($3,752 million) measured at fair value by applying fair value option as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively)		1,271,284			1,027,105			13,332
Receivables from customers		32,772			51,845			673
Receivables from other than customers		928,626			916,903			11,902
Allowance for doubtful accounts		(4,860	)		(4,828	)		(63	)

Total loans and receivables		2,227,822			1,991,025			25,844

Collateralized agreements:
Securities purchased under agreements to resell (including ¥904,126 million and ¥784,977 million ($10,189 million) measured at fair value by applying fair value option as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively)		9,558,617			8,885,582			115,337
Securities borrowed		5,597,701			5,565,997			72,248

Total collateralized agreements		15,156,318			14,451,579			187,585

Trading assets and private equity investments:
Trading assets (including securities pledged as collateral of ¥4,621,042 million and ¥5,474,813 million ($71,065 million) as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively; including ¥15,444 million and ¥18,412 million ($239 million) measured at fair value by applying fair value option as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively)		14,952,511			15,277,420			198,305
Private equity investments (including ¥62,553 million and ¥56,511 million ($734 million) measured at fair value by applying fair value option as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively)		289,420			260,290			3,379

Total trading assets and private equity investments		15,241,931			15,537,710			201,684

Other assets:
Office buildings, land, equipment and facilities (net of accumulated depreciation and amortization of ¥300,075 million as of March 31, 2011 and ¥338,631 million ($4,396 million) as of September 30, 2011)		392,036			1,054,780			13,691
Non-trading debt securities		591,797			854,698			11,094
Investments in equity securities		91,035			81,030			1,052
Investments in and advances to affiliated companies		273,105			202,620			2,630
Other (including ¥1,805 million ($23 million) measured at fair value by applying fair value option as of September 30, 2011)		568,493			1,479,214			19,201

Total other assets		1,916,466			3,672,342			47,668

Total assets	¥	36,692,990		¥	36,935,671		$	479,435

F-2

Consolidated Balance Sheets—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011			September 30, 2011			September 30, 2011
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Short-term borrowings (including ¥183,524 million and ¥136,182 million ($1,768 million) measured at fair value by applying fair value option as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively)	¥	1,167,077		¥	1,196,630		$	15,533
Payables and deposits:
Payables to customers		880,429			788,930			10,241
Payables to other than customers		410,679			615,225			7,986
Deposits received at banks		812,500			932,220			12,100

Total payables and deposits		2,103,608			2,336,375			30,327

Collateralized financing:
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase (including ¥332,337 million and ¥97,705 million ($1,268 million) measured at fair value by applying fair value option as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively)		10,813,797			10,855,067			140,902
Securities loaned		1,710,191			1,767,817			22,947
Other secured borrowings		1,162,450			1,292,954			16,782

Total collateralized financing		13,686,438			13,915,838			180,631

Trading liabilities		8,688,998			7,446,965			96,664
Other liabilities		552,316			971,301			12,607
Long-term borrowings (including ¥2,300,606 million and ¥1,973,594 million ($25,618 million) measured at fair value by applying fair value option as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively)		8,402,917			8,754,189			113,632

Total liabilities		34,601,354			34,621,298			449,394

Commitments and contingencies
Equity:
Nomura Holdings, Inc. (“NHI”) shareholders’ equity:
Common stock
No par value share;
Authorized—6,000,000,000 shares as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011
Issued—3,719,133,241 shares as of March 31, 2011 and 3,822,562,601 shares as of September 30, 2011
Outstanding—3,600,886,932 shares as of March 31, 2011 and 3,661,224,195 shares as of September 30, 2011		594,493			594,493			7,717
Additional paid-in capital		646,315			684,777			8,889
Retained earnings		1,069,334			1,026,367			13,322
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)		(129,696	)		(166,884	)		(2,166	)

Total NHI shareholders’ equity before treasury stock		2,180,446			2,138,753			27,762
Common stock held in treasury, at cost—118,246,309 shares as of March 31, 2011 and 161,338,406 shares as of September 30, 2011		(97,692	)		(101,195	)		(1,314	)

Total NHI shareholders’ equity		2,082,754			2,037,558			26,448

Noncontrolling interests		8,882			276,815			3,593
Total equity		2,091,636			2,314,373			30,041

Total liabilities and equity	¥	36,692,990		¥	36,935,671		$	479,435

F-3

Consolidated Balance Sheets—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following table presents the classification of consolidated variable interest entities’ assets and liabilities. The assets of a consolidated VIE may only be used to settle obligations of that VIE. Creditors do not have any recourse to Nomura beyond the assets held in the VIEs. Please see Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 6, “Securitizations and Variable Interest Entities”.


	Billions of yen				Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
Cash and cash deposits	¥	92	¥	68	$	0.88
Trading assets		1,110		1,091		14.17
Other assets		132		609		7.90

Total assets	¥	1,334	¥	1,768	$	22.95


Trading liabilities	¥	38	¥	25	$	0.34
Borrowings		1,032		1,182		15.34
Other liabilities		7		34		0.42

Total liabilities	¥	1,077	¥	1,241	$	16.10

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-4

Consolidated Statements of Operations (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Revenue:
Commissions	¥	201,598		¥	182,706		$	2,372
Fees from investment banking		45,258			27,589			358
Asset management and portfolio service fees		68,566			75,767			983
Net gain on trading		162,962			93,484			1,213
Gain (loss) on private equity investments		(1,909	)		(8,265	)		(107	)
Interest and dividends		145,717			240,375			3,120
Gain (loss) on investments in equity securities		(16,028	)		(3,141	)		(41	)
Other		28,270			196,342			2,549

Total revenue		634,434			804,857			10,447
Interest expense		98,987			172,903			2,244

Net revenue		535,447			631,954			8,203

Non-interest expenses:
Compensation and benefits		248,781			278,876			3,620
Commissions and floor brokerage		45,038			46,997			610
Information processing and communications		90,915			87,091			1,130
Occupancy and related depreciation		45,597			47,063			611
Business development expenses		13,939			21,668			281
Other		63,109			160,533			2,084

Total non-interest expenses		507,379			642,228			8,336

Income (loss) before income taxes		28,068			(10,274	)		(133	)
Income tax expense		23,100			15,947			207

Net income (loss)		4,968			(26,221	)		(340	)

Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests		1,595			2,100			28

Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	3,373		¥	(28,321	)	$	(368	)


	Yen						Translation into U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Per share of common stock:
Basic—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share	¥	0.92		¥	(7.81	)	$	(0.10	)
Diluted—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share	¥	0.92		¥	(7.81	)	$	(0.10	)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-5

Consolidated Statements of Operations—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Revenue:
Commissions	¥	83,520		¥	85,926		$	1,115
Fees from investment banking		24,892			13,819			179
Asset management and portfolio service fees		33,712			36,712			477
Net gain on trading		102,993			25,984			337
Gain (loss) on private equity investments		(963	)		(2,315	)		(30	)
Interest and dividends		69,960			107,288			1,393
Gain (loss) on investments in equity securities		(5,685	)		(2,544	)		(33	)
Other		11,989			112,977			1,467

Total revenue		320,418			377,847			4,905
Interest expense		44,795			76,258			990

Net revenue		275,623			301,589			3,915

Non-interest expenses:
Compensation and benefits		126,694			142,569			1,851
Commissions and floor brokerage		21,357			22,939			298
Information processing and communications		46,662			43,544			565
Occupancy and related depreciation		23,086			26,371			342
Business development expenses		6,780			12,333			160
Other		29,446			98,465			1,278

Total non-interest expenses		254,025			346,221			4,494

Income (loss) before income taxes		21,598			(44,632	)		(579	)
Income tax expense (benefit)		19,660			(373	)		(5	)

Net income (loss)		1,938			(44,259	)		(574	)

Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests		887			1,833			24

Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	1,051		¥	(46,092	)	$	(598	)


	Yen						Translation into U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Per share of common stock:
Basic—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share	¥	0.29		¥	(12.64	)	$	(0.16	)
Diluted—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share	¥	0.29		¥	(12.65	)	$	(0.16	)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-6

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Common stock
Balance at beginning of year	¥	594,493		¥	594,493		$	7,717

Balance at end of period		594,493			594,493			7,717

Additional paid-in capital
Balance at beginning of year		635,828			646,315			8,389
Issuance of common stock		—			30,356			394
Gain on sales of treasury stock		2,135			200			3
Issuance and exercise of common stock options		300			7,309			95
Purchase / sale (disposition) of subsidiary shares, etc., net		—			597			8

Balance at end of period		638,263			684,777			8,889

Retained earnings
Balance at beginning of year		1,074,213			1,069,334			13,880
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle⁽¹⁾		(4,734	)		—			—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders		3,373			(28,321	)		(368	)
Cash dividends⁽²⁾		(14,402	)		(14,646	)		(190	)

Balance at end of period		1,058,450			1,026,367			13,322

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss):
Cumulative translation adjustments
Balance at beginning of year		(74,330	)		(97,426	)		(1,265	)
Net change during period		(33,447	)		(38,218	)		(496	)

Balance at end of period		(107,777	)		(135,644	)		(1,761	)

Defined benefit pension plans
Balance at beginning of year		(34,802	)		(32,270	)		(419	)
Pension liability adjustment		1,808			529			7

Balance at end of period		(32,994	)		(31,741	)		(412	)

Non-trading securities
Balance at beginning of year		—			—			—
Unrealized gain on non-trading securities		—			501			7

Balance at end of period		—			501			7

Balance at end of period		(140,771	)		(166,884	)		(2,166	)

Common stock held in treasury
Balance at beginning of year		(68,473	)		(97,692	)		(1,268	)
Repurchases of common stock		(37,367	)		(8,942	)		(116	)
Sales of common stock		2			1			0
Common stock issued to employees		6,990			5,282			68
Other net change in treasury stock		—			156			2

Balance at end of period		(98,848	)		(101,195	)		(1,314	)

Total NHI shareholders’ equity

Balance at end of period		2,051,587			2,037,558			26,448

Noncontrolling interests
Balance at beginning of year		6,085			8,882			115
Cash dividends		(68	)		(1,309	)		(17	)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests		1,595			2,100			27
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests		(1,060	)		(1,614	)		(21	)
Purchase / sale (disposition) of subsidiary shares, etc., net		0			272,729			3,540
Other net change in noncontrolling interests		2,535			(3,973	)		(51	)

Balance at end of period		9,087			276,815			3,593

Total equity
Balance at end of period	¥	2,060,674		¥	2,314,373		$	30,041


(1) Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle for the six months ended September 30, 2010 are adjustments to initially apply Accounting Standards Updates “ASU” No. 2009-17, “Improvements to Financial Reporting by Enterprises Involved with Variable Interest Entities” (“ASU 2009-17”).
(2) Dividends per share	Six months ended September 30, 2010	¥4.00	Three months ended September 30, 2010	¥4.00
	Six months ended September 30, 2011	¥4.00	Three months ended September 30, 2011	¥4.00

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-7

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Net income (loss)	¥	4,968		¥	(26,221	)	$	(340	)
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Change in cumulative translation adjustments, net of tax		(34,507	)		(39,995	)		(519	)
Defined benefit pension plans:
Pension liability adjustment		3,069			890			12
Deferred income taxes		(1,261	)		(361	)		(5	)

Total		1,808			529			7
Non-trading securities:
Unrealized gain on non-trading securities		—			1,039			13
Deferred income taxes		—			(375	)		(5	)

Total		—			664			8

Total other comprehensive income (loss)		(32,699	)		(38,802	)		(504	)

Comprehensive income (loss)		(27,731	)		(65,023	)		(844	)
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interest in subsidiaries		535			486			6

Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	(28,266	)	¥	(65,509	)	$	(850	)


The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Net income (loss)	¥	1,938		¥	(44,259	)	$	(574	)
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Change in cumulative translation adjustments, net of tax		(5,780	)		(33,311	)		(432	)
Defined benefit pension plans:
Pension liability adjustment		472			420			5
Deferred income taxes		(194	)		(164	)		(2	)

Total		278			256			3
Non-trading securities:
Unrealized gain (loss) on non-trading securities		—			(1,309	)		(17	)
Deferred income taxes		—			473			6

Total		—			(836	)		(11	)

Total other comprehensive income (loss)		(5,502	)		(33,891	)		(440	)

Comprehensive income (loss)		(3,564	)		(78,150	)		(1,014	)
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interest in subsidiaries		354			851			11

Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	(3,918	)	¥	(79,001	)	$	(1,025	)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-8

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income (loss)	¥	4,968		¥	(26,221	)	$	(340	)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization		37,055			47,339			615
(Gain) loss on investments in equity securities		16,028			3,141			41
Deferred income taxes		18,508			7,507			97
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Time deposits		(66,987	)		(216,001	)		(2,804	)
Deposits with stock exchanges and other segregated cash		(42,684	)		(49,435	)		(642	)
Trading assets and private equity investments		(1,706,764	)		(1,260,532	)		(16,362	)
Trading liabilities		1,096,676			(673,374	)		(8,741	)
Securities purchased under agreements to resell, net of securities sold under agreements to repurchase		475,091			810,412			10,519
Securities borrowed, net of securities loaned		(977,595	)		9,647			125
Other secured borrowings		(64,316	)		130,504			1,694
Loans and receivables, net of allowance for doubtful accounts		(33,753	)		114,998			1,493
Payables		(98,378	)		212,075			2,753
Bonus accrual		(84,531	)		(50,722	)		(658	)
Accrued income taxes, net		(12,470	)		4,310			56
Other, net		343,622			36,223			470

Net cash used in operating activities		(1,095,530	)		(900,129	)		(11,684	)

Cash flows from investing activities:
Payments for purchases of office buildings, land, equipment and facilities		(93,648	)		(72,369	)		(939	)
Proceeds from sales of office buildings, land, equipment and facilities		59,634			45,939			596
Proceeds from sales of investments in equity securities		1,955			5,305			69
Decrease (increase) in loans receivable at banks, net		(15,950	)		20,921			272
Decrease (increase) in non-trading debt securities, net		(163,037	)		2,098			27
Other, net		5,964			41,393			537

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities		(205,082	)		43,287			562

Cash flows from financing activities:
Increase in long-term borrowings		1,302,017			1,062,997			13,798
Decrease in long-term borrowings		(584,219	)		(1,372,456	)		(17,815	)
Decrease in short-term borrowings, net		(84,922	)		(30,833	)		(400	)
Increase in deposits received at banks, net		257,753			179,749			2,333
Proceeds from sales of common stock held in treasury		6			7			0
Payments for repurchases of common stock held in treasury		(37,367	)		(8,281	)		(107	)
Payments for cash dividends		(14,680	)		(14,408	)		(187	)

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities		838,588			(183,225	)		(2,378	)

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents		(23,719	)		(28,634	)		(372	)

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents		(485,743	)		(1,068,701	)		(13,872	)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period		1,020,647			1,620,340			21,032

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	¥	534,904		¥	551,639		$	7,160

Supplemental information:
Cash paid during the period for—
Interest	¥	95,511		¥	189,546		$	2,460
Income tax payments, net	¥	17,063		¥	4,130		$	54

Non cash activities—

Business acquisitions:

During the six months ended September 30, 2011, as a result of business acquisitions, the total amount of increased assets, excluding cash and cash equivalents and total amount of increased liabilities, were ¥2,132,740 million and ¥1,784,621 million, respectively.

Others:

During the six months ended September 30, 2010, as a result of adoption for ASU 2009-17, the total amount of increased assets, excluding cash and cash equivalents and total amount of increased liabilities, were ¥283,697 million and ¥298,331 million, respectively.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-9

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (UNAUDITED)

1. Summary of accounting policies:

Description of business—

Nomura Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) and its broker-dealer, banking and other financial services subsidiaries provide investment, financing and related services to individual, institutional and government clients on a global basis. The Company and other entities in which it has a controlling financial interest are collectively referred to as “Nomura” within these consolidated financial statements.

Nomura operates its business through various divisions based upon the nature of specific products and services, its main client base and its management structure. Nomura reports operating results through three business segments: Retail, Asset Management and Wholesale.

In its Retail business, Nomura provides investment consultation services mainly to individual clients in Japan. In its Asset Management business, Nomura develops and manages investment trusts, and provides investment advisory services. In its Wholesale business, Nomura is engaged in the sales and trading of debt and equity securities and currencies on a global basis to various institutions, provides investment banking services such as the underwriting of bonds and equities as well as mergers and acquisitions and financial advice and invests in private equity businesses and seeks to maximize returns on the investments by increasing the corporate value of investee companies.

The accounting and financial reporting policies of Nomura conform to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) as applicable to broker dealers. A summary of the significant accounting policies applied by Nomura within these consolidated financial statements is provided within in the notes to the consolidated financial statements of Nomura’s annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2011 as filed on June 30, 2011.

Changes in accounting policies—

The following new accounting pronouncement relevant to Nomura has been adopted during the three months ended September 30, 2011:

Accounting for troubled debt restructurings

In April 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued amendments to Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) No. 310 “Receivables” through issuance of Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) No. 2011-02 “Receivables (Topic 310): A Creditor’s Determination of Whether a Restructuring is a Troubled Debt Restructuring” (“ASU 2011-02”). These amendments provide additional guidance and clarification to creditors in determining whether a debt restructuring constitutes a troubled debt restructuring.

ASU 2011-02 is effective for interim or annual periods beginning on or after June 15, 2011 and should be applied retrospectively to the beginning of the annual period of adoption.

As a result of issuance of ASU 2011-02, new disclosures around troubled debt restructuring required by ASU 2010-20 “Receivables (Topic 310): Disclosures about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses” are also effective for interim or annual periods beginning on or after June 15, 2011.

Nomura adopted ASU 2011-02 from July 1, 2011 and they have not had a material impact on these consolidated financial statements.

See Note 7 “Financing Receivables” in these consolidated financial statements where the new disclosures have been provided.

F-10

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following new accounting pronouncements relevant to Nomura have been adopted during the three months ended June 30, 2011:

Disclosure of supplementary pro forma information for business combinations

In December 2010, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 805 “Business Combinations” (“ASC 805”) through issuance of ASU 2010-29 “Business Combinations (Topic 805): Disclosures of Supplementary Pro Forma Information for Business Combinations” (“ASU 2010-29”). These amendments address diversity in practice about the interpretation of the pro forma revenue and earnings disclosure requirements for business combinations. When a business combination has occurred, ASU 2010-29 requires a reporting entity such as Nomura that presents comparative financial statements to disclose revenue and earnings of the combined entity as though the business combination that occurred during the current year had occurred as of the beginning of the comparable prior annual reporting period. ASU 2010-29 also expands the supplemental pro forma disclosures under ASC 805 to include a description of the nature and amount of material, nonrecurring pro forma adjustments directly attributable to the business combination included in the reported pro forma revenue and earnings.

ASU 2010-29 is effective prospectively for business combinations occurring in fiscal years beginning on or after December 15, 2010 with early adoption permitted.

Nomura adopted ASU 2010-29 from April 1, 2011. Because the new requirements only provide clarification on disclosure requirements, they have not had a material impact on these consolidated financial statements.

Clarifications on impairment testing of goodwill and other intangibles

In December 2010, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 350 “Intangibles—Goodwill and Other” (“ASC 350”) through issuance of ASU 2010-28 “Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): When to Perform Step 2 of the Goodwill Impairment Test for Reporting Units with Zero or Negative Carrying Amounts” (“ASU 2010-28”). These amendments address questions about determination of the impairment of goodwill in certain narrow circumstances. Under ASC 350, testing for goodwill impairment is a two-step test conducted at a “reporting unit” level. When a goodwill impairment test is performed, a reporting entity must assess whether the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value (Step 1). If it does, a reporting entity must perform an additional test to determine whether goodwill has been impaired and to calculate the amount of that impairment (Step 2). ASU 2010-28 modifies Step 1 of the goodwill impairment test for reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts by requiring performance of Step 2 of the test if it is more likely than not that a goodwill impairment exists. Upon adoption of the ASU, a reporting entity with a reporting unit that has a carrying amounts that is zero or negative is required to assess whether it is more likely than not that the reporting unit’s goodwill is impaired.

ASU 2010-28 is effective prospectively for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2010.

Nomura adopted ASU 2010-28 from April 1, 2011 and they have not had a material impact on these consolidated financial statements.

Fair value measurement disclosures

In January 2010, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 820 “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” (“ASC 820”) through issuance of ASU 2010-06 “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820): Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements” (“ASU 2010-06”). These amendments expand fair value disclosure requirements, including a requirement that information about purchases, sales, issuances and settlements of Level 3 instruments be provided on a gross basis.

The majority of the disclosure requirements of ASU 2010-06 were effective for interim or annual periods beginning after December 15, 2009, which for Nomura was the fourth quarter beginning January 1, 2010. Gross information on purchases, sales, issuances and settlements is required in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2010 which for Nomura was the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2011.

Because ASU 2010-06 only introduces new disclosures and do not impact upon how Nomura measures fair value, they have not had a material impact on these consolidated financial statements.

F-11

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Revenue recognition of multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements

In October 2009, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 605 “Revenue Recognition” through issuance of ASU 2009-13 “Revenue Recognition (Topic 605): Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements-a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force” (“ASU 2009-13”). These amendments revise the accounting for multiple-deliverable arrangements to enable vendors to account for products or services separately rather than as a combined unit.

ASU 2009-13 is effective prospectively from fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010 with early adoption permitted. Nomura adopted these amendments to ASC 605 from April 1, 2011 and they have not had a material impact on these consolidated financial statements.

Future accounting developments—

The following new accounting pronouncements relevant to Nomura will be adopted in future periods:

Disclosures about offsetting assets and liabilities

In December 2011, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 210-20 “Balance Sheet—Offsetting” (“ASC 210-20”) through issuance of ASU 2011-11 “Balance Sheet (Topic 210): Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” (“ASU 2011-11”). These amendments require a reporting entity to disclose information about rights of offset and related arrangements to enable users of its financial statements to understand the effect or potential effect of those arrangements on its financial position.

ASU 2011-11 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning on or after January 1, 2013 with required disclosures made retrospectively for all comparative periods presented.

Nomura will adopt ASU 2011-11 from April 1, 2013 and does not expect a material impact on these financial statements, because these amendments only require enhanced disclosures.

Goodwill impairment testing

In September 2011, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 350 through issuance of ASU 2011-08 “Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350)—Testing Goodwill for Impairment” (ASU 2011-08). These amendments simplify goodwill impairment testing by permitting a reporting entity to initially assess qualitatively whether it is necessary to perform the current quantitative two-step goodwill impairment test required by ASC 350. If the reporting entity determines that it is not more-likely-than-not (i.e. greater than 50%) that a reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount, the quantitative test is not required.

ASU 2011-08 is effective prospectively for goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011 with early adoption permitted.

Nomura currently expects to adopt ASU 2011-08 from April 1, 2012. Because the amendments only simplify when a quantitative test is required rather than change either the level at which the test is performed or the quantitative test itself, they are not expected to have a material impact on these consolidated financial statements.

Presentation of comprehensive income

In June 2011, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 220 “Comprehensive Income” (“ASC 220”) through issuance of ASU 2011-05 “Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income” (“ASU 2011-05”). These amendments revise the manner in which reporting entities present comprehensive income in their financial statements. The amendments remove certain presentation options in ASC 220 and require reporting entities to report components of comprehensive income in either a continuous statement of comprehensive income or two separate but consecutive statements.

ASU 2011-05 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011 with early adoption permitted.

In December 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-12 “Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassifications of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-05” (“ASU 2011-12”). ASU 2011-12 deferred certain aspects of ASU 2011-05. Nomura currently expects to adopt ASU 2011-05 from April 1, 2012 excluding those aspects that are deferred by ASU 2011-12. Because these amendments only change how comprehensive income is presented within these consolidated financial statements rather than changing whether an item must be reported in other comprehensive income or when an item of other comprehensive income is reclassified to earnings, they are not expected to have a material impact on these consolidated financial statements.

F-12

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Fair value measurement and disclosures

In May 2011, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 820 through issuance of ASU 2011-04 “Fair Value Measurements (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs” (“ASU 2011-04”), which amends the descriptions for measuring fair value and existing fair value measurement disclosures and in particular:

•

Prohibits application of block discounts for all fair value measurements, regardless of classification in the fair value hierarchy, and clarifies how other premiums or discounts should be applied in a fair value measurement;

•

Allows the fair value of certain financial instruments held in a portfolio to be measured on the basis of the net position being managed if certain criteria are met;

•

Clarifies that the concepts of highest and best use and valuation premise in a fair value measurement are not relevant for most financial assets and financial liabilities;

•

Clarifies that the fair value of own equity instrument classified in shareholders’ equity and certain liabilities should be measured from the perspective of a market participant that holds the instrument as an asset;

•

Clarifies that the principal market should be determined based on the market with greatest volume and level that a reporting entity can access, which is usually the market in which the reporting entity usually transacts;

•

Requires additional qualitative and quantitative disclosures around fair value measurements, including more information around Level 3 inputs.

ASU 2011-04 is effective prospectively during interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011. Early adoption is not permitted.

Nomura will adopt ASU 2011-04 from January 1, 2012 and is currently evaluating the impact of them on these consolidated financial statements.

Accounting for repurchase agreements and similar transactions

In April 2011, the FASB issued amendments to ASC 860 “Transfers and Servicing” (“ASC 860”) through issuance of ASU 2011-03 “Transfers and Servicing (Topic 860): Reconsideration of Effective Control for Repurchase Agreements” (“ASU 2011-03”). These amendments modify the effective control criterion for when repurchase agreements and similar transactions are accounted for as secured financing transactions or sales. Currently, when assessing effective control, one of the conditions a transferor has to meet is the ability to repurchase or redeem the financial assets even in the event of default of the transferee. This ability is demonstrated through obtaining cash or other collateral sufficient to fund substantially all of the cost to purchase replacement assets should the transferee fail to return the transferred asset. These amendments remove this condition and consequently, the level of cash collateral, haircuts and ongoing margining received by the transferor in a repurchase agreement or other similar agreement is now irrelevant in determining if it should be accounted for as a sale.

ASU 2011-03 is effective prospectively during interim or annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011. Early adoption is not permitted.

Nomura will adopt ASU 2011-03 from January 1, 2012 and does not expect these to have a material impact on these consolidated financial statements. Certain Japanese securities lending transactions undertaken after adoption date will be accounted for as secured borrowings rather than sales in these consolidated financial statements as the criteria for derecognition of the transferred financial assets under ASC 860 will no longer be met. The amounts of securities derecognized from the consolidated balance sheets under this type of securities lending transaction as of March 31, 2011 and as of September 30, 2011 were ¥291,870 million and ¥227,481 million ($2,953 million), respectively.

2. U.S. dollar amounts:

The U.S. dollar amounts are included solely for the convenience of the reader and have been translated at the rate of ¥77.04 = U.S.$1.00, the noon buying rate in New York City for cable transfers in foreign currencies as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on September 30, 2011. This translation should not be construed to imply that the yen amounts actually represent, or have been or could be converted into, equivalent amounts in U.S. dollars.

F-13

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

3. Fair value of financial instruments:

The fair value of financial instruments

A significant amount of Nomura’s financial instruments are carried at fair value. Financial assets carried at fair value on a recurring basis are reported in the consolidated balance sheets within Trading assets and private equity investments, Loans and receivables, Collateralized agreements and Other assets. Financial liabilities carried at fair value on a recurring basis are reported within Trading liabilities, Short-term borrowings, Payables and deposits, Collateralized financing, Long-term borrowings and Other liabilities.

Other financial assets and financial liabilities are carried at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, where the primary measurement basis is not fair value but where fair value is used in specific circumstances, such as to measure impairment.

In all cases, fair value is determined in accordance with ASC 820 which defines fair value as the amount that would be exchanged to sell a financial asset or transfer a financial liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. It assumes that the transaction occurs in Nomura’s principal market, or in the absence of the principal market, the most advantageous market for the relevant financial assets or financial liabilities.

Financial assets carried at fair value also include investments in certain funds for which Nomura applies ASC 820 where, as a practical expedient, fair value is determined on the basis of net asset value per share (“NAV per share”) if the NAV per share is calculated in accordance with certain industry standard principles.

During the six months ended September 30, 2011, an insurance company became a subsidiary of Nomura (“insurance subsidiary”). Nomura measures the non-trading securities that are held by the insurance subsidiary at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through Other comprehensive income (loss) in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income on a net-of-tax basis. These non-trading securities are included in Other assets—Non-trading debt securities and Other assets—Other in the consolidated balance sheets. As of September 30, 2011, Non-trading debt securities includes ¥212 billion ($2.75 billion) of these non-trading debt securities which mainly consist of government, state, municipal and government agency securities. ¥2 billion ($0.02 billion) of related unrealized gains and ¥1 billion ($0.01 billion) of related unrealized losses were recognized from the amount of Non-trading debt securities. Other Assets—Other includes ¥71 billion ($0.92 billion) of these investments in equity securities for other than operating purpose, ¥3 billion ($0.04 billion) of related unrealized gains and ¥3 billion ($0.04 billion) of related unrealized losses were recognized. Non-trading debt securities were sold ¥106 billion ($1.38 billion), ¥1 billion ($0.01 billion) of related realized gain and no significant amount of related realized loss were recognized for the six months ended September 30, 2011. Non-trading debt securities were sold ¥103 billion ($1.34 billion), ¥1 billion ($0.01 billion) of related realized gain and no significant amount of related realized loss were recognized for the three months ended September 30, 2011. ¥6 billion ($0.08 billion) of investments in equity securities for other than operating purposes were sold, no significant amount of related realized gain and no significant amount of related realized loss were recognized for the six months ended September 30, 2011. ¥5 billion ($0.06 billion) of investments in equity securities for other than operating purposes were sold, no significant amount of related realized gain and no significant amount of related realized loss were recognized for the three months ended September 30, 2011. The balance of debt securities consists of ¥14 billion ($0.18 billion) with maturities within one year, ¥46 billion ($0.60 billion) with maturities over one year and within five years, ¥136 billion ($1.76 billion) with maturities over five years and within ten years and ¥16 billion ($0.21 billion) with maturities over ten years.

Increases and decreases in the fair value of assets and liabilities will significantly impact Nomura’s position, performance, liquidity and capital resources. As explained below, valuation techniques applied contain inherent uncertainties and Nomura is unable to predict the accurate impact of future developments in the market. Where appropriate, Nomura uses economic hedging strategies to mitigate its risk, although these hedges are also subject to unpredictable movements in the market.

Valuation methodology for financial instruments carried at fair value on a recurring basis

The fair value of financial instruments is based on quoted market prices including market indices, broker or dealer quotations or an estimation by management of the expected exit price under current market conditions. Various financial instruments, including cash instruments and over-the-counter (“OTC”) contracts, have bid and offer prices that are observable in the market. These are measured at the point within the bid-offer range which best represents Nomura’s estimate of fair value. Where quoted market prices or broker or dealer quotations are not available, prices for similar instruments or valuation pricing models are considered in the determination of fair value.

Where quoted prices are available in active markets, no valuation adjustments are taken to modify the fair value of assets or liabilities marked using such prices. Other instruments may be measured using valuation techniques, such as valuation pricing models incorporating observable parameters, unobservable parameters or a combination of both. Valuation pricing models use parameters which would be considered by market participants in valuing similar financial instruments.

F-14

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Valuation pricing models and their underlying assumptions impact the amount and timing of unrealized gains and losses recognized, and the use of different valuation pricing models or underlying assumptions could produce different financial results. Valuation uncertainty results from a variety of factors, including the valuation technique or model selected, the quantitative assumptions used within the valuation model, the inputs into the model, as well as other factors. Valuation adjustments are used to reflect the assessment of this uncertainty. Common valuation adjustments include model reserves, credit adjustments, close-out adjustments, and other appropriate instrument-specific adjustments, such as those to reflect transfer or sale restrictions.

The level of adjustments is largely judgmental and is based on an assessment of the factors that management believes other market participants would use in determining the fair value of similar financial instruments. The type of adjustments taken, the methodology for the calculation of these adjustments, and the inputs for these calculations are reassessed periodically to reflect current market practice and the availability of new information.

For example, the fair value of certain financial instruments includes adjustments for credit risk; both with regards to counterparty credit risk on positions held and Nomura’s own creditworthiness on positions issued. Credit risk on financial assets is significantly mitigated by credit enhancements such as collateral and netting arrangements. Any net credit exposure is measured using available and applicable inputs for the relevant counterparty. The same approach is used to measure the credit exposure on Nomura’s liabilities as is used to measure counterparty credit risk on Nomura’s assets.

Such valuation pricing models are calibrated to the market on a regular basis and inputs used are adjusted for current market conditions and risks. The global risk management unit reviews pricing models and assesses model appropriateness and consistency independently of the front office. The model reviews consider a number of factors about a model’s suitability for valuation and sensitivity of a particular product. Valuation models are calibrated to the market on a periodic basis by comparison to observable market pricing, comparison with alternative models, and analysis of risk profiles.

As explained above, any changes in fixed income, equity, foreign exchange and commodity markets can impact Nomura’s estimates of fair value in the future, potentially affecting trading gains and losses. Where financial contracts have longer maturity dates, Nomura’s estimates of fair value may involve greater subjectivity due to the lack of transparent market data available upon which include base assumptions underlying valuation pricing models.

Concentrations of credit risk

Concentrations of credit risk may arise from trading, securities financing transactions and underwriting activities, and may be impacted by changes in political or economic factors. Nomura has credit risk concentrations on bonds issued by the Japanese government, U.S. government, governments within the European Union (“EU”), their states and municipalities, and their agencies. These concentrations generally arise from taking trading securities positions and are reported within Trading assets in the consolidated balance sheets. Government, state, municipal, and government agency securities, including Securities pledged as collateral, represented 19% of total assets as of March 31, 2011 and 20% as of September 30, 2011. The following tables present geographic allocations of Nomura’s trading assets related to government, state, municipal, and government agency securities. See Note 4. “Derivative instruments and hedging activities” about the concentration of credit risk for derivatives.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Japan		U.S.		EU		Other		Total⁽¹⁾
Governments, states, municipalities and their agencies	¥	2,822	¥	1,184	¥	2,640	¥	370	¥	7,016

	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Japan		U.S.		EU		Other		Total⁽¹⁾
Governments, states, municipalities and their agencies	¥	2,643	¥	1,924	¥	2,538	¥	329	¥	7,434


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Japan		U.S.		EU		Other		Total⁽¹⁾
Governments, states, municipalities and their agencies	$	34.31	$	24.97	$	32.94	$	4.27	$	96.49

(1)

Other than above, there were ¥410 billion of government, state, municipal and agency securities in Other assets—Non-trading debt securities as of March 31, 2011 and ¥642 billion ($8.34 billion) as of September 30, 2011. The vast majority of these securities are Japanese government, states, municipalities and agency securities.

F-15

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Fair value hierarchy

All financial instruments measured at fair value, including those carried at fair value using the fair value option, have been categorized into a three-level hierarchy (the “fair value hierarchy”) based on the transparency of inputs used by Nomura to estimate fair value. A financial instrument is classified in the fair value hierarchy based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement of the instrument. The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are defined as follows, with Level 1 representing the most transparent inputs and Level 3 representing the least transparent inputs:

Level 1:

Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities accessible by Nomura at the measurement date.

Level 2:

Level 3:

The availability of inputs observable in the market varies by product and can be affected by a variety of factors. Significant factors include, but are not restricted to the prevalence of similar products in the market, especially for customized products, how established the product is in the market, for example, whether it is a new product or is relatively mature, and the reliability of information provided in the market which would depend, for example, on the frequency and volume of current data. A period of significant change in the market may reduce the availability of observable data. Under such circumstances, financial instruments may be reclassified into a lower level in the fair value hierarchy.

Significant judgments used in determining the classification of financial instruments include the nature of the market in which the product would be traded, the underlying risks, the type and liquidity of market data inputs and the nature of observed transactions for similar instruments.

Where valuation models include the use of parameters which are less observable or unobservable in the market, significant management judgment is used in establishing fair value. The valuations for Level 3 financial instruments, therefore, involve a greater degree of judgment than those valuations for Level 1 or Level 2 financial instruments.

Certain criteria management use to determine whether a market is active or inactive include the number of transactions, the frequency that pricing is updated by other market participants, the variability of price quotes among market participants, and the amount of publicly available information.

F-16

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following tables present the amounts of Nomura’s financial assets and financial liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively within the fair value hierarchy. The presentation as of March 31, 2011 has been reclassified to confirm assets and liabilities classification of the current period presentation.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Counterparty and Cash Collateral Netting⁽¹⁾			Balance as of March 31, 2011
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments⁽²⁾
Equities⁽³⁾	¥	951	¥	1,230	¥	121	¥	—		¥	2,302
Private equity⁽³⁾		—		—		289		—			289
Japanese government securities		2,663		—		—		—			2,663
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—		159		—		—			159
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		3,382		789		23		—			4,194
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		—		1,568		51		—			1,619
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		—		171		28		—			199
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		—		1,963		3		—			1,966
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		—		2		128		—			130
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other⁽⁴⁾		—		72		34		—			106
Investment trust funds and other		85		29		10		—			124

Total cash instruments		7,081		5,983		687		—			13,751

Derivatives⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		653		721		98		—			1,472
Interest rate contracts		16		11,750		203		—			11,969
Credit contracts		—		1,863		203		—			2,066
Foreign exchange contracts		0		1,266		49		—			1,315
Commodity contracts		29		64		4		—			97
Netting		—		—		—		(15,428	)		(15,428	)

Total derivatives		698		15,664		557		(15,428	)		1,491

Subtotal	¥	7,779	¥	21,647	¥	1,244	¥	(15,428	)	¥	15,242

Loans and receivables⁽⁶⁾		—		543		11		—			554
Collateralized agreements⁽⁷⁾		—		904		—		—			904
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		513		79		0		—			592
Other		121		0		25		—			146

Total	¥	8,413	¥	23,173	¥	1,280	¥	(15,428	)	¥	17,438

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Equities	¥	1,444	¥	91	¥	—	¥	—		¥	1,535
Japanese government securities		1,588		—		—		—			1,588
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—		2		—		—			2
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		3,018		509		—		—			3,527
Bank and corporate debt securities		—		316		—		—			316
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		—		1		—		—			1
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		—		0		—		—			0
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other⁽⁴⁾		—		0		—		—			0
Investment trust funds and other		64		—		—		—			64

Total cash instruments		6,114		919		—		—			7,033

Derivatives⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		723		784		70		—			1,577
Interest rate contracts		15		11,861		192		—			12,068
Credit contracts		—		1,835		258		—			2,093
Foreign exchange contracts		0		1,341		47		—			1,388
Commodity contracts		19		82		6		—			107
Netting		—		—		—		(15,577	)		(15,577	)

Total derivatives		757		15,903		573		(15,577	)		1,656

Subtotal	¥	6,871	¥	16,822	¥	573	¥	(15,577	)	¥	8,689

Short-term borrowings⁽⁸⁾		—		182		1		—			183
Payables and deposits⁽⁹⁾		—		0		1		—			1
Collateralized financing⁽⁷⁾		—		332		—		—			332
Long-term borrowings^(8)(10)(11)		126		1,663		144		—			1,933
Other liabilities		44		—		—		—			44

Total	¥	7,041	¥	18,999	¥	719	¥	(15,577	)	¥	11,182

F-17

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3			Counterparty and Cash Collateral Netting⁽¹⁾			Balance as of September 30, 2011
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments⁽²⁾
Equities⁽³⁾	¥	625	¥	1,072	¥	134		¥	—		¥	1,831
Private equity⁽³⁾		—		—		260			—			260
Japanese government securities		2,530		—		—			—			2,530
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—		113		—			—			113
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		3,729		1,038		24			—			4,791
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		—		1,480		66			—			1,546
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		—		112		8			—			120
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		—		1,969		4			—			1,973
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		—		1		111			—			112
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other⁽⁴⁾		—		141		19			—			160
Investment trust funds and other		134		26		9			—			169

Total cash instruments		7,018		5,952		635			—			13,605

Derivatives⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		901		972		37			—			1,910
Interest rate contracts		18		21,080		151			—			21,249
Credit contracts		—		2,380		311			—			2,691
Foreign exchange contracts		0		2,102		89			—			2,191
Commodity contracts		3		22		3			—			28
Netting		—		—		—			(26,136	)		(26,136	)

Total derivatives		922		26,556		591			(26,136	)		1,933

Subtotal	¥	7,940	¥	32,508	¥	1,226		¥	(26,136	)	¥	15,538

Loans and receivables⁽⁶⁾		—		282		7			—			289
Collateralized agreements⁽⁷⁾		—		785		—			—			785
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		661		187		7			—			855
Other⁽³⁾		147		9		78			—			234

Total	¥	8,748	¥	33,771	¥	1,318		¥	(26,136	)	¥	17,701

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Equities	¥	943	¥	101	¥	—		¥	—		¥	1,044
Japanese government securities		1,645		—		—			—			1,645
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—		2		—			—			2
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		2,444		417		—			—			2,861
Bank and corporate debt securities		—		207		1			—			208
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		—		1		—			—			1
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		—		1		—			—			1
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		—		0		—			—			0
Investment trust funds and other		24		0		—			—			24

Total cash instruments		5,056		729		1			—			5,786

Derivatives⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		919		982		28			—			1,929
Interest rate contracts		20		21,031		169			—			21,220
Credit contracts		—		2,363		333			—			2,696
Foreign exchange contracts		—		1,989		72			—			2,061
Commodity contracts		1		28		4			—			33
Netting		—		—		—			(26,278	)		(26,278	)

Total derivatives		940		26,393		606			(26,278	)		1,661

Subtotal	¥	5,996	¥	27,122	¥	607		¥	(26,278	)	¥	7,447

Short-term borrowings⁽⁸⁾		—		121		15			—			136
Payables and deposits⁽⁹⁾		—		0		1			—			1
Collateralized financing⁽⁷⁾		—		98		—			—			98
Long-term borrowings^(8)(10)(11)		104		1,604		(66	)		—			1,642
Other liabilities		23		—		—			—			23

Total	¥	6,123	¥	28,945	¥	557		¥	(26,278	)	¥	9,347

F-18

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3			Counterparty and Cash Collateral Netting⁽¹⁾			Balance as of September 30, 2011
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments⁽²⁾
Equities⁽³⁾	$	8.11	$	13.92	$	1.74		$	—		$	23.77
Private equity⁽³⁾		—		—		3.38			—			3.38
Japanese government securities		32.84		—		—			—			32.84
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—		1.47		—			—			1.47
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		48.39		13.48		0.31			—			62.18
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		—		19.21		0.86			—			20.07
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		—		1.45		0.10			—			1.55
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		—		25.56		0.05			—			25.61
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		—		0.01		1.44			—			1.45
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other⁽⁴⁾		—		1.83		0.25			—			2.08
Investment trust funds and other		1.74		0.34		0.11			—			2.19

Total cash instruments		91.08		77.27		8.24			—			176.59

Derivatives⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		11.70		12.61		0.48			—			24.79
Interest rate contracts		0.23		273.62		1.96			—			275.81
Credit contracts		—		30.89		4.04			—			34.93
Foreign exchange contracts		0.00		27.28		1.16			—			28.44
Commodity contracts		0.04		0.29		0.04			—			0.37
Netting		—		—		—			(339.25	)		(339.25	)

Total derivatives		11.97		344.69		7.68			(339.25	)		25.09

Subtotal	$	103.05	$	421.96	$	15.92		$	(339.25	)	$	201.68

Loans and receivables⁽⁶⁾		—		3.66		0.09			—			3.75
Collateralized agreements⁽⁷⁾		—		10.19		—			—			10.19
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		8.58		2.43		0.09			—			11.10
Other⁽³⁾		1.91		0.12		1.01			—			3.04

Total	$	113.54	$	438.36	$	17.11		$	(339.25	)	$	229.76

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Equities	$	12.24	$	1.31	$	—		$	—		$	13.55
Japanese government securities		21.36		—		—			—			21.36
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—		0.03		—			—			0.03
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		31.73		5.41		—			—			37.14
Bank and corporate debt securities		—		2.69		0.01			—			2.70
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		—		0.01		—			—			0.01
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		—		0.01		—			—			0.01
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		—		0.00		—			—			0.00
Investment trust funds and other		0.31		0.00		—			—			0.31

Total cash instruments		65.64		9.46		0.01			—			75.11

Derivatives⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		11.93		12.75		0.36			—			25.04
Interest rate contracts		0.26		272.99		2.19			—			275.44
Credit contracts		—		30.67		4.32			—			34.99
Foreign exchange contracts		—		25.82		0.93			—			26.75
Commodity contracts		0.01		0.36		0.06			—			0.43
Netting		—		—		—			(341.10	)		(341.10	)

Total derivatives		12.20		342.59		7.86			(341.10	)		21.55

Subtotal	$	77.84	$	352.05	$	7.87		$	(341.10	)	$	96.66

Short-term borrowings⁽⁸⁾		—		1.57		0.20			—			1.77
Payables and deposits⁽⁹⁾		—		0.00		0.01			—			0.01
Collateralized financing⁽⁷⁾		—		1.27		—			—			1.27
Long-term borrowings⁽⁸⁾⁽¹⁰ ⁾⁽¹¹⁾		1.35		20.82		(0.85	)		—			21.32
Other liabilities		0.30		—		—			—			0.30

Total	$	79.49	$	375.71	$	7.23		$	(341.10	)	$	121.33

(1)	Represents the amount offset under counterparty netting of derivative assets and liabilities as well as cash collateral netting against net derivatives.

(2)	Includes investments in certain funds measured at fair value on the basis of NAV per share as a practical expedient.

(3)	Includes equity investments that would have been accounted for under the equity method had Nomura not chosen to elect the fair value option.

(4)	Includes collateralized loan obligations (CLO) and asset-backed securities (ABS) (e.g., credit card loans, auto loans, student loans and etc.).

(5)

Each derivative classification includes derivatives referencing multiple risk components. For example, interest rates contracts include complex derivatives referencing interest rate risk as well as foreign exchange risk or other factors such as prepayment speeds. Credit contracts include credit default swaps as well as derivatives referencing corporate and government bonds.

(6)	Includes loans elected for the fair value option.

(7)	Includes collateralized agreements or collateralized financing elected for the fair value option.

(8)	Includes structured notes elected for the fair value option.

(9)	Includes embedded derivatives bifurcated from deposits received at banks. If unrealized gains are greater than unrealized losses, deposits are reduced by the excess amount.

(10)	Includes embedded derivatives bifurcated from issued structured notes. If unrealized gains are greater than unrealized losses, borrowings are reduced by the excess amount.

(11)	Includes liabilities recognized from secured financing transactions that are accounted for as financings rather than sales. Nomura elected the fair value option for these liabilities.

F-19

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Valuation methodology by major class of financial asset and financial liability

The valuation methodology used by Nomura to estimate fair value for major classes of financial assets and financial liabilities, together with the significant inputs which determine classification in the fair value hierarchy, is as follows:

Equities—Equities include direct holdings of both listed and unlisted equity securities, and fund investments. Listed equity securities are valued using quoted prices for identical securities from active markets where available. These valuations should be in line with market practice and therefore can be based on bid/offer prices as applicable or mid-market prices. Nomura determines whether the market is active depending on the sufficiency and frequency of trading activity. Where these securities are classified in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy, no valuation adjustments are made to fair value, even if Nomura has a large “block” holding and the block could not be disposed of in its entirety at the quoted price. Listed equities traded in inactive markets are valued using the exchange price as adjusted to reflect liquidity and bid offer spreads and are classified in Level 2. Unlisted equity securities are valued using the same methodology as private equity investments described below and are usually classified as Level 3 because of the management judgment involved. As a practical expedient, fund investments are generally valued using NAV per share where available. Publicly traded mutual funds which are valued using a daily NAV per share are classified as Level 1. Investments in funds where Nomura has the ability to redeem its investment with the investee at NAV per share as of the balance sheet date or within the near term are classified as Level 2. Investments in funds where Nomura does not have the ability to redeem in the near term or does not know when it can redeem are classified as Level 3.

Private equity—The valuation of unlisted private equity investments requires significant management judgment because the investments, by their nature, have little or no price transparency. Private equity investments are initially carried at cost as an approximation of fair value. Adjustments to carrying value are made if there is third-party evidence of a change in value. Adjustments are also made, in the absence of third-party transactions, if it is determined that the expected exit price of the investment is different from the carrying value. In reaching that determination, Nomura primarily uses either its own internal valuation models based on estimated future cash flows to be generated from the underlying investment, discounted at a weighted average cost of capital or comparable market multiple valuations such as EV/EBITDA (Enterprise Value/EBITDA), PE Ratio (Price/Earnings Ratio), Price/Embedded Value Ratio and other multiples based on relationships between numbers reported in the financial statements and the price of comparable companies. Where possible these valuations are compared with the operating cash flows and financial performance of the companies or properties relative to budgets or projections, price/earnings data for similar quoted companies, trends within sectors and/or regions and any specific rights or terms associated with the investment, such as conversion features and liquidation preferences. Private equity investments are generally classified as Level 3.

Government, state, municipal and agency securities—Japanese and other G7 government securities are valued using quoted market prices, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources. These securities are traded in active markets and therefore are classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy. Non-G7 government securities, agency securities and municipal securities are valued using similar pricing sources but are generally classified as Level 2 as they are traded in markets that are not considered to be active. Certain non-G7 securities may be classified as Level 1 because they trade in active markets. Certain securities may be classified as Level 3 because they trade infrequently and there is not sufficient information from comparable securities to classify them as Level 2.

F-20

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Corporate debt securities—The valuation of corporate debt securities is primarily performed using internal models and market inputs such as price quotes and recent market transactions of identical or similar debt, yield curves, asset swap spreads and credit default spreads. Most corporate debt securities are classified in Level 2 because the modeling inputs are usually observable. Certain corporate debt securities may be classified as Level 1 because they trade in active markets where there is sufficient information from a liquid exchange or multiple sources and they are valued using an unadjusted quote for an identical instrument. Certain securities may be classified as Level 3 because they trade infrequently and there is insufficient information from comparable securities to classify them as Level 2.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) and Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)—The fair value of CMBS and RMBS is estimated using quoted market prices, recent market transactions or by reference to a comparable market index. CMBS and RMBS securities are classified primarily as Level 2 if all significant inputs are observable. For certain asset classes, no direct pricing sources or comparable indices are available and valuation is based on a combination of indices. These securities are classified as Level 3.

Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities—The fair value of other mortgage backed securities is estimated using quoted market prices, recent market transactions or by reference to a comparable market index. Where all significant inputs are observable, the securities will be classified as Level 2. For certain securities, no direct pricing sources or comparable securities or indices may be available. These securities are classified as Level 3.

Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other—CDOs are valued using internal models where quoted market prices do not exist. Key inputs used by the model include market spread data for each credit rating, prepayment speeds, recovery rates and default probabilities. Where all significant inputs are observable, the securities will be classified as Level 2. Since some of these inputs are unobservable, certain CDOs are classified as Level 3 where the unobservable inputs are significant.

Investment trust funds and other—Investment trust funds are generally valued using NAV per share. Publicly traded funds which are valued using a daily NAV per share are classified as Level 1. For funds that are not publicly traded but Nomura has the ability to redeem its investment with the investee at NAV per share on the balance sheet date or within the near term, the investments are classified as Level 2. Investments where Nomura does not have the ability to redeem in the near term or does not know when it can redeem are classified as Level 3.

Derivatives—Exchange-traded derivatives are usually valued using unadjusted quoted market prices and are therefore classified as Level 1. Where exchange-traded derivatives are not valued at the exchange price due to timing differences, these are classified as Level 2. OTC derivatives are valued by internal models using market transactions and other market evidence whenever possible, including market-based inputs to models, model calibration to market clearing transactions, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency. Valuation techniques include simple discounted expected cash flow techniques and Black-Scholes and Monte Carlo simulations. For OTC derivatives that trade in liquid markets, such as plain vanilla forwards, swaps and options, model inputs can generally be verified and model selection does not involve significant management judgment. OTC derivatives are classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy when all of the significant inputs can be corroborated to market evidence. Derivatives that are valued using models with significant unobservable inputs such as correlation, long-dated volatility, credit curves or other unobservable inputs are classified within Level 3. Examples of derivatives classified as Level 3 by Nomura include exotic interest rate derivatives, exotic foreign exchange derivatives, exotic equity derivatives, exotic derivatives including a combination of interest rate, foreign exchange and equity risks and certain other transactions including long-dated or exotic credit derivatives. Valuation adjustments are recorded to model valuations which do not calibrate to market and consider all factors that would impact fair value including bid offer, liquidity and credit risk; both with regards to counterparty credit risk on derivative assets and Nomura’s own creditworthiness on derivative liabilities.

Loans—Loans carried at fair value either as trading assets or through election of the fair value option are valued primarily through internal models using similar inputs to corporate debt securities as quoted prices are usually not available. Where there are no significant inputs which are unobservable, loans are classified as Level 2. Certain loans, however, may be classified as Level 3 because they are traded infrequently and there is not sufficient information from comparable securities to classify them as Level 2.

Collateralized agreements and Collateralized financing—Resale and repurchase agreements carried at fair value through election of the fair value option are valued using discounted cash flow models. Key inputs include expected future cash flows, interest rates and collateral funding spreads such as general collateral or special rates. Resale and repurchase agreements are generally classified in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy as unobservable inputs are not significant. Where the unobservable inputs are significant, they will be classified in Level 3.

F-21

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Non-trading debt securities—These are debt securities held by certain non-broker dealer subsidiaries in the group and are valued and classified in the fair value hierarchy using the same methodology used for other debt securities classified as government, agency and municipal bonds and bank and corporate debt securities described above.

Short-term and long-term borrowings (“Structured notes”)—Structured notes are debt securities issued by Nomura which contain embedded features that alter the return to the investor from simply receiving a fixed or floating rate of interest to a return that depends upon some other variables, such as an equity or equity index, commodity price, foreign exchange rate, credit rating of a third party or a more complex interest rate. The fair value of structured notes is estimated using a quoted price in an active market for the identical liability if available, and where not available, using a mixture of valuation techniques that use the quoted price of the identical liability when traded as an asset, quoted prices for similar liabilities, similar liabilities when traded as assets, and also the amount at the measurement date that Nomura would pay to transfer the identical liability or would receive if the identical liability is entered at the measurement date. The fair value of structured notes includes an adjustment to reflect Nomura’s own creditworthiness. This adjustment can differ depending on the market in which the structured note is issued and traded. Structured notes are generally classified in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy as unobservable inputs are not significant. Where the unobservable inputs are significant, they will be classified in Level 3.

Long-term borrowings (“Secured financing transactions”)—Secured financing transactions are liabilities recognized when a transfer of a financial asset does not meet the criteria for sales accounting under ASC 860 and therefore the transaction is accounted for as a secured borrowing. This liability is valued using the same methodology that is applied to the transferred financial assets which remain on the consolidated balance sheets and is therefore classified in the same level in the fair value hierarchy as the transferred financial assets. These liabilities do not provide general recourse to Nomura and therefore no adjustment is made to reflect Nomura’s own creditworthiness.

Level 3 financial assets and financial liabilities

Level 3 financial assets and financial liabilities consist of instruments whose valuations are significantly dependent on inputs which are unobservable in the market.

Financial instruments classified as Level 3 are often hedged with instruments within Level 1 or Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. The gains or losses presented below do not reflect the offsetting gains or losses for these hedging instruments. Level 3 instruments are also measured using both observable and unobservable inputs. Fair value changes presented below, therefore, reflect realized and unrealized gains and losses resulting from movements in both observable and unobservable parameters.

The following tables in this note that relate to the six months ended September 30, 2010 and the three months ended September 30, 2010 are prepared in accordance with the disclosure requirements in effect prior to certain amendments to ASC 820 that Nomura adopted during the year ended March 31, 2011.

The following tables present the gains and losses as well as increases and decreases of assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis which Nomura classified as Level 3 for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011, three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011, respectively.

F-22

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen
	Six months ended September 30, 2010
				Unrealized and realized gains/losses included in revenue
	Opening balance as of six months ended September 30, 2010			Net gain (loss) on trading			Gain (loss) on investments in equity securities and other⁽¹⁾		Gain (loss) on private equity investments			Interest and dividends / Interest expense			Total unrealized and realized gains / (losses)			Purchases (issuances) / sales (redemption), and settlement⁽²⁾⁽³⁾			Net transfers in / (out of) Level 3⁽⁴⁾			Balance as of six months ended September 30, 2010
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	¥	164		¥	(2	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	(0	)	¥	(2	)	¥	(26	)	¥	(1	)	¥	135
Private equity		325			—			—		(2	)		—			(2	)		(13	)		—			310
Japanese agency and municipal securities		0			0			—		—			—			0			3			0			3
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		22			2			—		—			—			2			1			5			30
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		131			4			—		—			0			4			(14	)		(3	)		118
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		27			0			—		—			—			0			(3	)		(14	)		10
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		4			0			—		—			—			0			(1	)		3			6
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		117			2			—		—			—			2			40			2			161
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		43			(1	)		—		—			—			(1	)		(14	)		(2	)		26
Investment trust funds and other		10			1			—		—			—			1			(1	)		—			10

Total cash instruments		843			6			—		(2	)		(0	)		4			(28	)		(10	)		809

Derivative contracts, net⁽⁵⁾
Equity contract		32			5			—		—			—			5			(3	)		3			37
Interest rate contracts		9			34			—		—			—			34			(8	)		(14	)		21
Credit contracts		(58	)		(38	)		—		—			—			(38	)		47			5			(44	)
Foreign exchange contracts		(2	)		(2	)		—		—			—			(2	)		(0	)		4			(0	)
Commodity contracts		(0	)		1			—		—			—			1			(0	)		(1	)		(0	)

Total derivative, net		(19	)		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)		36			(3	)		14

Subtotal	¥	824		¥	6		¥	—	¥	(2	)	¥	(0	)	¥	4		¥	8		¥	(13	)	¥	823

Loans and receivables		10			0			—		—			—			0			(1	)		(6	)		3
Other assets		38			(0	)		1		—			—			1			(1	)		(0	)		38

Total	¥	872		¥	6		¥	1	¥	(2	)	¥	(0	)	¥	5		¥	6		¥	(19	)	¥	864

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Equities	¥	0		¥	(0	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(0	)	¥	0		¥	(0	)	¥	0
Bank and corporate debt securities		0			—			—		—			—			—			(0	)		—			—

Subtotal	¥	0		¥	(0	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(0	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(0	)	¥	0

Short-term borrowings		9			1			—		—			—			1			(6	)		3			5
Payables and deposits		0			(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)		(0	)		(0	)		(0	)
Long-term borrowings		(127	)		22			—		—			—			22			249			(11	)		89

Total	¥	(118	)	¥	23		¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	23		¥	243		¥	(8	)	¥	94

F-23

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen
	Six months ended September 30, 2011
	Beginning balance as of six months ended September 30, 2011			Net gain (loss)⁽⁶⁾			Other comprehensive income (loss)			Purchases / issuances⁽⁷⁾			Sales / redemption⁽⁷⁾			Settlement			Foreign exchange movements			Net transfers in / (out of) Level 3⁽⁴⁾			Balance as of six months ended September 30, 2011
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	¥	121		¥	(11	)	¥	—		¥	41		¥	(11	)	¥	—		¥	(4	)	¥	(2	)	¥	134
Private equity		289			(12	)		—			1			(7	)		—			(11	)		—			260
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—			—			—			3			(3	)		—			—			—			—
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		23			3			—			124			(116	)		—			—			(10	)		24
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		51			(2	)		—			77			(69	)		—			(2	)		11			66
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		28			0			—			—			(21	)		—			(1	)		2			8
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		3			(0	)		—			0			(0	)		—			(0	)		1			4
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		128			(1	)		—			7			(23	)		—			(0	)		—			111
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		34			(0	)		—			10			(11	)		—			(1	)		(13	)		19
Investment trust funds and other		10			(0	)		—			1			(2	)		—			(0	)		—			9

Total cash instruments		687			(23	)		—			264			(263	)		—			(19	)		(11	)		635

Derivatives, net⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		28			(8	)		—			—			—			(11	)		(1	)		1			9
Interest rate contracts		11			6			—			—			—			(23	)		(7	)		(5	)		(18	)
Credit contracts		(55	)		1			—			—			—			34			4			(6	)		(22	)
Foreign exchange contracts		2			19			—			—			—			(3	)		(1	)		0			17
Commodity contracts		(2	)		(0	)		—			—			—			(1	)		(0	)		2			(1	)

Total derivatives, net		(16	)		18			—			—			—			(4	)		(5	)		(8	)		(15	)


Subtotal	¥	671		¥	(5	)	¥	—		¥	264		¥	(263	)	¥	(4	)	¥	(24	)	¥	(19	)	¥	620

Loans and receivables		11			(0	)		—			2			(5	)		—			(1	)		—			7
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		0			0			(0	)		7			—			—			(0	)		—			7
Other		25			2			(0	)		59			(8	)		—			(0	)		0			78


Total	¥	707		¥	(3	)	¥	(0	)	¥	332		¥	(276	)	¥	(4	)	¥	(25	)	¥	(19	)	¥	712

Liabilities:
Trading Liabilities
Bank and corporate debt securities	¥	—		¥	0		¥	—		¥	1		¥	—		¥	—		¥	—		¥	—		¥	1


Subtotal	¥	—		¥	0		¥	—		¥	1		¥	—		¥	—		¥	—		¥	—		¥	1

Short-term borrowings		1			0			—			14			(0	)		—			—			(0	)		15
Payables and deposits		1			(0	)		—			(0	)		—			—			—			—			1
Long-term borrowings		144			38			—			0			(116	)		—			(15	)		(41	)		(66	)


Total	¥	146		¥	38		¥	—		¥	15		¥	(116	)	¥	—		¥	(15	)	¥	(41	)	¥	(49	)

F-24

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30, 2011
	Beginning balance as of six months ended September 30, 2011			Net gain (loss)⁽⁶⁾			Other comprehensive income (loss)			Purchases / issuances⁽⁷⁾			Sales / redemption⁽⁷⁾			Settlement			Foreign exchange movements			Net transfers in / (out of) Level 3⁽⁴⁾			Balance as of six months ended September 30, 2011
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	$	1.57		$	(0.14	)	$	—		$	0.53		$	(0.14	)	$	—		$	(0.05	)	$	(0.03	)	$	1.74
Private equity		3.76			(0.16	)		—			0.01			(0.09	)		—			(0.14	)		—			3.38
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—			—			—			0.04			(0.04	)		—			—			—			—
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		0.30			0.04			—			1.61			(1.51	)		—			—			(0.13	)		0.31
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		0.67			(0.03	)		—			1.01			(0.90	)		—			(0.03	)		0.14			0.86
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		0.36			0.00			—			—			(0.27	)		—			(0.02	)		0.03			0.10
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		0.04			(0.00	)		—			0.00			(0.00	)		—			(0.00	)		0.01			0.05
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		1.66			(0.01	)		—			0.09			(0.30	)		—			(0.00	)		—			1.44
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		0.44			(0.00	)		—			0.13			(0.14	)		—			(0.01	)		(0.17	)		0.25
Investment trust funds and other		0.13			(0.00	)		—			0.01			(0.03	)		—			(0.00	)		—			0.11

Total cash instruments		8.93			(0.30	)		—			3.43			(3.42	)		—			(0.25	)		(0.15	)		8.24

Derivatives, net⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		0.36			(0.10	)		—			—			—			(0.14	)		(0.01	)		0.01			0.12
Interest rate contracts		0.14			0.08			—			—			—			(0.30	)		(0.09	)		(0.06	)		(0.23	)
Credit contracts		(0.70	)		0.01			—			—			—			0.44			0.05			(0.08	)		(0.28	)
Foreign exchange contracts		0.03			0.25			—			—			—			(0.04	)		(0.01	)		0.00			0.23
Commodity contracts		(0.03	)		(0.01	)		—			—			—			(0.01	)		(0.00	)		0.03			(0.02	)

Total derivatives, net		(0.20	)		0.23			—			—			—			(0.05	)		(0.06	)		(0.10	)		(0.18	)

Subtotal	$	8.73		$	(0.07	)	$	—		$	3.43		$	(3.42	)	$	(0.05	)	$	(0.31	)	$	(0.25	)	$	8.06

Loans and receivables		0.14			(0.00	)		—			0.02			(0.06	)		—			(0.01	)		—			0.09
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		0.00			0.00			(0.00	)		0.09			—			—			(0.00	)		—			0.09
Other		0.31			0.03			(0.00	)		0.77			(0.10	)		—			(0.00	)		0.00			1.01

Total	$	9.18		$	(0.04	)	$	(0.00	)	$	4.31		$	(3.58	)	$	(0.05	)	$	(0.32	)	$	(0.25	)	$	9.25

Liabilities:
Trading Liabilities
Bank and corporate debt securities	$	—		$	0.00		$	—		$	0.01		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	0.01

Subtotal	$	—		$	0.00		$	—		$	0.01		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	0.01

Short-term borrowings		0.02			0.00			—			0.18			(0.00	)		—			—			(0.00	)		0.20
Payables and deposits		0.01			(0.00	)		—			(0.00	)		—			—			—			—			0.01
Long-term borrowings		1.87			0.49			—			0.00			(1.51	)		—			(0.19	)		(0.53	)		(0.85	)

Total	$	1.90		$	0.49		$	—		$	0.19		$	(1.51	)	$	—		$	(0.19	)	$	(0.53	)	$	(0.63	)

F-25

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen
	Three months ended September 30, 2010
				Unrealized and realized gains/losses included in revenue
	Opening balance as of three months ended September 30, 2010			Net gain (loss) on trading			Gain (loss) on investments in equity securities and other⁽¹⁾		Gain (loss) on private equity investments			Interest and dividends / Interest expense			Total unrealized and realized gains / (losses)			Purchases (issuances) / sales (redemption), and settlement⁽²⁾⁽³⁾			Net transfers in / (out of) Level 3⁽⁴⁾			Balance as of three months ended September 30, 2010
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	¥	162		¥	(2	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	(0	)	¥	(2	)	¥	(21	)	¥	(4	)	¥	135
Private equity		311			—			—		(1	)		0			(1	)		0			—			310
Japanese agency and municipal securities		0			0			—		—			—			0			3			0			3
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		13			2			—		—			—			2			4			11			30
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		136			3			—		—			0			3			(16	)		(5	)		118
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		22			(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)		(3	)		(9	)		10
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		3			(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)		(0	)		3			6
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		171			5			—		—			—			5			(15	)		—			161
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		26			(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)		3			(3	)		26
Investment trust funds and other		10			0			—		—			—			0			0			—			10

Total cash instruments		854			8			—		(1	)		(0	)		7			(45	)		(7	)		809

Derivative contracts, net⁽⁵⁾
Equity contract		31			6			—		—			—			6			(2	)		2			37
Interest rate contracts		20			17			—		—			—			17			(17	)		1			21
Credit contracts		(39	)		(40	)		—		—			—			(40	)		28			7			(44	)
Foreign exchange contracts		1			0			—		—			—			0			(2	)		1			(0	)
Commodity contracts		0			(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)		0			(0	)		(0	)

Total derivative, net		13			(17	)		—		—			—			(17	)		7			11			14

Subtotal	¥	867		¥	(9	)	¥	—	¥	(1	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(10	)	¥	(38	)	¥	4		¥	823

Loans and receivables		3			0			—		—			—			0			(0	)		—			3
Other assets		38			(0	)		0		—			—			0			(0	)		—			38

Total	¥	908		¥	(9	)	¥	0	¥	(1	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(10	)	¥	(38	)	¥	4		¥	864

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Equities	¥	0		¥	(0	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(0	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(0	)	¥	0

Subtotal	¥	0		¥	(0	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(0	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(0	)	¥	0

Short-term borrowings		6			0			—		—			—			0			(0	)		(1	)		5
Payables and deposits		(0	)		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)		(0	)		(0	)		(0	)
Long-term borrowings		44			(44	)		—		—			—			(44	)		5			(4	)		89

Total	¥	50		¥	(44	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(44	)	¥	5		¥	(5	)	¥	94

F-26

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen
	Three months ended September 30, 2011
	Beginning balance as of three months ended September 30, 2011			Net gain (loss)⁽⁶⁾			Other comprehensive income (loss)			Purchases / issuances⁽⁷⁾			Sales / redemption⁽⁷⁾			Settlement			Foreign exchange movements			Net transfers in / (out of) Level 3⁽⁴⁾			Balance as of three months ended September 30, 2011
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	¥	149		¥	(10	)	¥	—		¥	4		¥	(5	)	¥	—		¥	(3	)	¥	(1	)	¥	134
Private equity		280			(6	)		—			1			(8	)		—			(7	)		—			260
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—			—			—			1			(1	)		—			—			—			—
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		18			1			—			71			(61	)		—			—			(5	)		24
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		54			(4	)		—			39			(31	)		—			(1	)		9			66
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		10			(0	)		—			—			(3	)		—			(0	)		1			8
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		3			(0	)		—			—			(0	)		—			(0	)		1			4
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		118			0			—			7			(14	)		—			(0	)		—			111
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		18			(1	)		—			6			(7	)		—			(1	)		4			19
Investment trust funds and other		10			(1	)		—			0			(0	)		—			(0	)		—			9

Total cash instruments		660			(21	)		—			129			(130	)		—			(12	)		9			635

Derivatives, net⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		22			(9	)		—			—			—			(3	)		(1	)		0			9
Interest rate contracts		16			(7	)		—			—			—			(6	)		(4	)		(17	)		(18	)
Credit contracts		(44	)		8			—			—			—			18			2			(6	)		(22	)
Foreign exchange contracts		6			15			—			—			—			(2	)		(1	)		(1	)		17
Commodity contracts		0			(0	)		—			—			—			(1	)		(0	)		—			(1	)

Total derivatives, net		0			7			—			—			—			6			(4	)		(24	)		(15	)

Subtotal	¥	660		¥	(14	)	¥	—		¥	129		¥	(130	)	¥	6		¥	(16	)	¥	(15	)	¥	620

Loans and receivables		9			0			—			—			(1	)		—			(1	)		—			7
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		7			0			(0	)		—			—			—			(0	)		—			7
Other		77			1			(0	)		1			(1	)		—			(0	)		—			78

Total	¥	753		¥	(13	)	¥	(0	)	¥	130		¥	(132	)	¥	6		¥	(17	)	¥	(15	)	¥	712

Liabilities:
Trading Liabilities
Bank and corporate debt securities	¥	—		¥	0		¥	—		¥	1		¥	—		¥	—		¥	—		¥	—		¥	1

Subtotal	¥	—		¥	0		¥	—		¥	1		¥	—		¥	—		¥	—		¥	—		¥	1

Short-term borrowings		1			0			—			14			(0	)		—			—			(0	)		15
Payables and deposits		1			0			—			(0	)		—			—			—			—			1
Long-term borrowings		82			36			—			3			(91	)		—			(9	)		(15	)		(66	)

Total	¥	84		¥	36		¥	—		¥	18		¥	(91	)	¥	—		¥	(9	)	¥	(15	)	¥	(49	)

F-27

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30, 2011
	Beginning balance as of three months ended September 30, 2011			Net gain (loss)⁽⁶⁾			Other comprehensive income (loss)			Purchases / issuances⁽⁷⁾			Sales / redemption⁽⁷⁾			Settlement			Foreign exchange movements			Net transfers in / (out of) Level 3⁽⁴⁾			Balance as of three months ended September 30, 2011
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	$	1.93		$	(0.13	)	$	—		$	0.05		$	(0.06	)	$	—		$	(0.04	)	$	(0.01	)	$	1.74
Private equity		3.63			(0.07	)		—			0.01			(0.10	)		—			(0.09	)		—			3.38
Japanese agency and municipal securities		—			—			—			0.01			(0.01	)		—			—			—			—
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		0.23			0.01			—			0.92			(0.79	)		—			—			(0.06	)		0.31
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		0.70			(0.05	)		—			0.52			(0.41	)		—			(0.02	)		0.12			0.86
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		0.13			(0.00	)		—			—			(0.04	)		—			(0.00	)		0.01			0.10
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		0.04			(0.00	)		—			—			(0.00	)		—			(0.00	)		0.01			0.05
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		1.53			0.00			—			0.09			(0.18	)		—			(0.00	)		—			1.44
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		0.23			(0.01	)		—			0.08			(0.09	)		—			(0.01	)		0.05			0.25
Investment trust funds and other		0.13			(0.01	)		—			0.00			(0.01	)		—			(0.00	)		—			0.11

Total cash instruments		8.55			(0.26	)		—			1.68			(1.69	)		—			(0.16	)		0.12			8.24

Derivatives, net⁽⁵⁾
Equity contracts		0.29			(0.12	)		—			—			—			(0.04	)		(0.01	)		0.00			0.12
Interest rate contracts		0.21			(0.09	)		—			—			—			(0.08	)		(0.05	)		(0.22	)		(0.23	)
Credit contracts		(0.57	)		0.10			—			—			—			0.24			0.03			(0.08	)		(0.28	)
Foreign exchange contracts		0.08			0.19			—			—			—			(0.02	)		(0.01	)		(0.01	)		0.23
Commodity contracts		0.00			(0.00	)		—			—			—			(0.02	)		(0.00	)		—			(0.02	)

Total derivatives, net		0.01			0.08			—			—			—			0.08			(0.04	)		(0.31	)		(0.18	)

Subtotal	$	8.56		$	(0.18	)	$	—		$	1.68		$	(1.69	)	$	0.08		$	(0.20	)	$	(0.19	)	$	8.06

Loans and receivables		0.12			0.00			—			—			(0.01	)		—			(0.02	)		—			0.09
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		0.09			0.00			(0.00	)		—			—			—			(0.00	)		—			0.09
Other		1.00			0.01			(0.00	)		0.01			(0.01	)		—			(0.00	)		—			1.01

Total	$	9.77		$	(0.17	)	$	(0.00	)	$	1.69		$	(1.71	)	$	0.08		$	(0.22	)	$	(0.19	)	$	9.25

Liabilities:
Trading Liabilities
Bank and corporate debt securities	$	—		$	0.00		$	—		$	0.01		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	0.01

Subtotal	$	—		$	0.00		$	—		$	0.01		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	0.01

Short-term borrowings		0.02			0.00			—			0.18			(0.00	)		—			—			(0.00	)		0.20
Payables and deposits		0.01			0.00			—			(0.00	)		—			—			—			—			0.01
Long-term borrowings		1.06			0.47			—			0.04			(1.17	)		—			(0.12	)		(0.19	)		(0.85	)

Total	$	1.09		$	0.47		$	—		$	0.23		$	(1.17	)	$	—		$	(0.12	)	$	(0.19	)	$	(0.63	)

(1)	Includes gains and losses reported within Revenue—Other and Non-interest expenses—Other in the consolidated statements of operations.

(2)	Includes the effect of foreign exchange movements.

(3)

Includes the effect from the application of ASC 810 “Consolidation” (“ASC 810”) which has been amended in accordance with ASU No. 2009-16 “Transfers and Servicing (Topic 860): Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets” and ASU No. 2009-17 “Consolidations (Topic 810): Improvements to Financial Reporting by Enterprises Involved with Variable Interest Entities” (“ASU 2009-17”).

(4)

If assets and liabilities move from Level 3 to another Level or move from another Level to Level 3, the amount reported in Net transfers in / (out of) Level 3 is the fair value as of the beginning of the quarter during which the movement occurs. Therefore if assets and liabilities move from another Level to Level 3 all gains/(losses) during the quarter are included in the table and if assets and liabilities move from Level 3 to another Level all gains/(losses) during the quarter are excluded from the table.

(5)

Each derivative classification includes derivatives referencing multiple risk components. For example, interest rate contracts include complex derivatives referencing interest rate risk as well as foreign exchange risk or other factors such as prepayments speeds. Credit contracts include credit default swaps as well as derivatives referencing corporate and government bonds.

(6)

Includes gains and losses reported mainly within Net gain (loss) on trading, Gain (loss) on private equity investments, and also within Gain (loss) on investments in equity securities, Revenue—Other and Non-interest expenses—Other, Interest and dividends and Interest expense in the consolidated statements of operations.

(7)	Purchases / issuances includes the increase of trading liabilities, and Sales / redemption includes the decrease of trading liabilities.

F-28

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Significant transfers between levels during the year

Nomura assumes that transfer of the assets and liabilities from one Level to another Level occurs at the beginning of each quarter.

Transfers between Level 1 and Level 2

There were no significant transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the six months ended September 30, 2010. There were no significant transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Transfers between Level 1 or Level 2 and Level 3

There were no significant transfers between Level 1 or Level 2 and Level 3 for the six months ended September 30, 2010. There were no significant transfers between Level 1 or Level 2 and Level 3 for six months ended September 30, 2011.

F-29

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following table presents the amounts of unrealized gains (losses) for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011 and three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011, respectively, relating to those financial instruments which Nomura classified as Level 3 within the fair value hierarchy and that were still held by Nomura at the balance sheet date:


	Billions of yen
	Six months ended September 30, 2010
	Net gain (loss) on trading			Gain (loss) on investments in equity securities and other⁽¹⁾		Gain (loss) on private equity investments			Interest and dividends / Interest expense			Total unrealized gains / (losses)
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	¥	(6	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	(0	)	¥	(6	)
Private equity		—			—		(3	)		—			(3	)
Japanese agency and municipal securities		0			—		—			—			0
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		1			—		—			—			1
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		3			—		—			—			3
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		0			—		—			—			0
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		0			—		—			—			0
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		(3	)		—		—			—			(3	)
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)
Investment trust funds and other		1			—		—			—			1

Total cash instruments		(4	)		—		(3	)		(0	)		(7	)

Derivatives, net⁽²⁾
Equity contracts		6			—		—			—			6
Interest rate contracts		11			—		—			—			11
Credit contracts		(45	)		—		—			—			(45	)
Foreign exchange contracts		(2	)		—		—			—			(2	)
Commodity contracts		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)

Total derivatives, net		(30	)		—		—			—			(30	)

Subtotal	¥	(34	)	¥	—	¥	(3	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(37	)

Loans and receivables		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)
Other assets		(0	)		1		—			—			1

Total	¥	(34	)	¥	1	¥	(3	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(36	)

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Equities	¥	(0	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(0	)

Subtotal	¥	(0	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(0	)

Short-term borrowings		1			—		—			—			1
Payables and deposits		0			—		—			—			0
Long-term borrowings		17			—		—			—			17

Total	¥	18		¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	18

F-30

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen			Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30, 2011			Six months ended September 30, 2011
	Unrealized gain / (loss)⁽³⁾			Unrealized gain / (loss)⁽³⁾
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	¥	(8	)	$	(0.10	)
Private equity		(9	)		(0.12	)
Japanese agency and municipal securities		(0	)		(0.00	)
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		0			0.00
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		(4	)		(0.05	)
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		0			0.00
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		(0	)		(0.00	)
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		(2	)		(0.03	)
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		(1	)		(0.01	)
Investment trust funds and other		0			0.00

Total cash instruments		(24	)		(0.31	)

Derivatives, net⁽²⁾
Equity contracts		(8	)		(0.10	)
Interest rate contracts		9			0.12
Credit contracts		10			0.13
Foreign exchange contracts		17			0.22
Commodity contracts		(0	)		(0.00	)

Total derivatives, net		28			0.37

Subtotal	¥	4		$	0.06

Loans and receivables		(1	)		(0.01	)
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		0			0.00
Other		1			0.01

Total	¥	4		$	0.06

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Bank and corporate debt securities	¥	0		$	0.00

Subtotal	¥	0		$	0.00

Short-term borrowings		0			0.00
Payables and deposits		(0	)		(0.00	)
Long-term borrowings		29			0.38

Total	¥	29		$	0.38

F-31

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen
	Three months ended September 30, 2010
	Net gain (loss) on trading			Gain (loss) on investments in equity securities and other⁽¹⁾		Gain (loss) on private equity investments			Interest and dividends / Interest expense			Total unrealized gains / (losses)
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	¥	(3	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	(0	)	¥	(3	)
Private equity		—			—		(1	)		—			(1	)
Japanese agency and municipal securities		0			—		—			—			0
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		1			—		—			—			1
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		2			—		—			—			2
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		0			—		—			—			0
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		5			—		—			—			5
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		0			—		—			—			0
Investment trust funds and other		0			—		—			—			0

Total cash instruments		5			—		(1	)		(0	)		4

Derivatives, net⁽²⁾
Equity contracts		1			—		—			—			1
Interest rate contracts		15			—		—			—			15
Credit contracts		(43	)		—		—			—			(43	)
Foreign exchange contracts		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)
Commodity contracts		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)

Total derivatives, net		(27	)		—		—			—			(27	)

Subtotal	¥	(22	)	¥	—	¥	(1	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(23	)

Loans and receivables		0			—		—			—			0
Other assets		(0	)		1		—			—			1

Total	¥	(22	)	¥	1	¥	(1	)	¥	(0	)	¥	(22	)

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Equities	¥	(0	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(0	)

Subtotal	¥	(0	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(0	)

Short-term borrowings		0			—		—			—			0
Payables and deposits		(0	)		—		—			—			(0	)
Long-term borrowings		(51	)		—		—			—			(51	)

Total	¥	(51	)	¥	—	¥	—		¥	—		¥	(51	)

F-32

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen			Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30, 2011			Three months ended September 30, 2011
	Unrealized gain / (loss)⁽³⁾			Unrealized gain / (loss)⁽³⁾
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments
Equities	¥	(8	)	$	(0.10	)
Private equity		(6	)		(0.08	)
Japanese agency and municipal securities		(0	)		(0.00	)
Foreign government, agency and municipal securities		0			0.00
Bank and corporate debt securities and loans for trading purposes		(4	)		(0.05	)
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		(0	)		(0.00	)
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		(0	)		(0.00	)
Mortgage and other mortgage-backed securities		0			0.00
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other		(1	)		(0.01	)
Investment trust funds and other		(1	)		(0.01	)

Total cash instruments		(20	)		(0.25	)

Derivatives, net⁽²⁾
Equity contracts		(10	)		(0.13	)
Interest rate contracts		(2	)		(0.03	)
Credit contracts		13			0.17
Foreign exchange contracts		15			0.19
Commodity contracts		(0	)		(0.00	)

Total derivatives, net		16			0.20

Subtotal	¥	(4	)	$	(0.05	)

Loans and receivables		(0	)		(0.00	)
Other assets
Non-trading debt securities		0			0.00
Other		1			0.01

Total	¥	(3	)	$	(0.04	)

Liabilities:
Trading liabilities
Bank and corporate debt securities	¥	0		$	0.00

Subtotal	¥	0		$	0.00

Short-term borrowings		0			0.00
Payables and deposits		0			0.00
Long-term borrowings		36			0.47

Total	¥	36		$	0.47

(1)	Includes gains and losses reported within Revenue—Other and Non-interest expenses—Other in the consolidated statements of operations.

(2)

Each derivative classification includes derivatives referencing multiple risk components. For example, interest rate contracts include complex derivatives referencing interest rate risk as well as foreign exchange risk or other factors such as prepayment speeds. Credit contracts include credit default swaps as well as derivatives referencing corporate and government bonds.

(3)

F-33

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

During the three months ended September 30, 2011, a lack of liquidity persists in certain asset classes which has impacted the observability of certain inputs which are significant to Nomura’s financial instrument valuations. These inputs include certain foreign currency exchange volatilities, certain interest rate volatilities and certain credit spreads.

As described above, the valuation of Level 3 financial assets and liabilities is dependent on certain significant inputs which cannot be observed in the market. Common characteristics of an inactive market include a low number of transactions of the financial instrument, stale or non-current price quotes, price quotes that vary substantially either over time or among market makers, or little publicly released information. Unobservable inputs include volatility risk and correlation risk for derivative instruments, refinancing periods and recovery rates for credit-related products and loans, and macroeconomic factors affecting the value of collateral for asset-backed securitization products.

If corroborative evidence is not available to value Level 3 financial instruments, fair value may be established using other equivalent products in the market. The level of correlation between the specific Level 3 financial instrument and the available benchmark instrument is considered as an unobservable parameter. Other techniques for determining an appropriate value for unobservable parameters may consider information such as consensus pricing data among certain market participants, historical trends, extrapolation from observable market data and other information Nomura would expect market participants to use in valuing similar instruments.

There is a range of fair values for Level 3 financial instruments as a result of the uncertainties described above. The specific valuation for each instrument is based on management’s judgment of prevailing market conditions, in accordance with Nomura’s established valuation policies and procedures. Using reasonably possible alternative assumptions to value Level 3 financial instruments will significantly influence fair values.

As described earlier, Level 3 financial instruments are often hedged by instruments in Level 1 or Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. For the six months ended September 30, 2011, gains and losses related to Level 3 assets did not have a material impact on Nomura’s liquidity and capital resources management.

As the valuation of these instruments fluctuates in response to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, general market sentiment, credit, interest rate, foreign exchange and correlation risk, current values may decrease if market conditions deteriorate. Conversely, should conditions improve, an increase in value of the Level 3 portfolio would be expected.

F-34

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Investments in investment funds that calculate NAV per share

In the normal course of business, Nomura invests in non-consolidated funds which meet the definition of investment companies or are similar in nature and which do not have readily determinable fair values. For certain of these investments, Nomura uses NAV per share as the basis for valuation as a practical expedient. Some of these investments are redeemable at different amounts from NAV per share.

The following tables provide information on these investments where NAV per share is calculated or disclosed as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011. Investments are presented by major category relevant to the nature of Nomura’s business and risks.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Fair Value⁽¹⁾		Unfunded Commitments⁽²⁾		Redemption Frequency (if currently eligible)⁽³⁾	Redemption Notice Period⁽⁴⁾
Hedge funds	¥	91	¥	0	Weekly/Monthly	Same day-95 days
Venture capital funds		2		0	—	—
Private equity funds		64		23	Quarterly	30 days
Real estate funds		8		15	—	—

Total	¥	165	¥	38


	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Fair Value⁽¹⁾		Unfunded Commitments⁽²⁾		Redemption Frequency (if currently eligible)⁽³⁾	Redemption Notice Period⁽⁴⁾
Hedge funds	¥	86	¥	0	Monthly	Same day-95 days
Venture capital funds		4		1	—	—
Private equity funds		68		15	Quarterly	30 days
Real estate funds		14		15	—	—

Total	¥	172	¥	31


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Fair Value⁽¹⁾		Unfunded Commitments⁽²⁾		Redemption Frequency (if currently eligible)⁽³⁾	Redemption Notice Period⁽⁴⁾
Hedge funds	$	1.12	$	0.00	Monthly	Same day-95 days
Venture capital funds		0.05		0.01	—	—
Private equity funds		0.88		0.19	Quarterly	30 days
Real estate funds		0.18		0.19	—	—

Total	$	2.23	$	0.39

(1)	Fair value generally determined using NAV per share as a practical expedient.

(2)	The contractual amount of any unfunded commitments Nomura is required to make to the entities in which the investment is held.

(3)	The range in frequency with which Nomura can redeem investments.

(4)	The notice period required to be provided before redemption is possible.

Hedge funds:

These investments include funds of funds that invest in multiple asset classes. Nomura has developed the business of issuing structured notes linked to hedge funds. As a result most of the risks are transferred as pass-through. The fair values of these investments are estimated using the NAV per share of the investments. Although most of these funds can be redeemed within six months, certain funds cannot be redeemed within six months due to contractual, liquidity or gating issues. The redemption period cannot be estimated for certain suspended or liquidating funds. Some of these investments contain restrictions against transfers of the investments to third parties.

Venture capital funds:

These investments include primarily start-up funds. The fair values of the investments in this category are estimated using the NAV per share of the investments. Most of these funds cannot be redeemed within six months. The redemption period cannot be estimated for certain suspended or liquidating funds. These investments contain restrictions against transfers of the investments to third parties.

Private equity funds:

These investments are made mainly in various sectors in Europe, United States and Japan. The fair values of certain investments in this category are estimated using the NAV per share. Redemption is restricted for most of these investments. Some of these investments contain restrictions against transfers of the investments to third parties.

Real estate funds:

These are investments in commercial and other types of real estate. The fair values of the investments in this category are estimated using the NAV per share of the investments. Redemption is restricted for most of these investments. These investments contain restrictions against transfers of the investments to third parties.

F-35

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Fair value option for financial assets and financial liabilities

Nomura carries certain eligible financial assets and liabilities at fair value through the election of the fair value option permitted by ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging” (“ASC 815”) and ASC 825 “Financial Instruments” (“ASC 825”). When Nomura elects the fair value option for an eligible item, changes in that item’s fair value are recognized in the consolidated statements of operations. Election of the fair value option is generally irrevocable unless an event that gives rise to a new basis of accounting for that instrument occurs.

The financial assets and financial liabilities primarily elected for the fair value option by Nomura, and the reasons for the election, are as follows:

•

Loans which are risk managed on a fair value basis. Nomura elects the fair value option to mitigate volatility in the consolidated statements of operations caused by the difference in measurement basis that otherwise would arise between loans and the derivatives used to risk manage those instruments.

•

Equity method investments held for capital appreciation or current income purposes, which Nomura generally has an intention to exit rather than hold indefinitely. Nomura elects the fair value option to more appropriately represent the purpose of these investments in these consolidated financial statements.

•

Resale and repurchase agreements which are risk managed on a fair value basis. Nomura elects the fair value option to mitigate volatility in the consolidated statements of operations caused by the difference in measurement basis that otherwise would arise between the resale and repurchase agreements and the derivatives used to risk manage those instruments.

•

Financial liabilities recognized in transactions which are accounted for as secured financing transactions under ASC 860. Nomura elects the fair value option for these financial liabilities to mitigate volatility in the consolidated statements of operations that otherwise would arise had this election not been made. Even though Nomura usually has little or no continuing economic exposure to the transferred financial assets, they remain on the consolidated balance sheets and continue to be carried at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statements of operations; and

•

All structured notes issued on or after April 1, 2008. Nomura elects the fair value option for those structured notes primarily to mitigate the volatility in the consolidated statements of operations caused by differences in the measurement basis for structured notes and the derivatives Nomura uses to risk manage those positions. Nomura also elects the fair value option for certain notes issued by consolidated variable interest entities (“VIEs”) for the same purpose and for certain structured notes issued prior to April 1, 2008.

Interest and dividends arising from financial instruments for which the fair value option has been elected are recognized within Interest and dividends or Interest expense or Revenue—Net gain (loss) on trading.

F-36

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following tables present gains (losses) due to changes in fair value for financial instruments measured at fair value using the fair value option for the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011, three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011, respectively.


	Billions of yen						Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
	Net gain (loss) on trading			Net gain (loss) on trading			Net gain (loss) on trading
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments⁽¹⁾
Trading assets	¥	(2	)	¥	1		$	0.01
Private equity		(0	)		(6	)		(0.08	)
Collateralized agreements⁽²⁾		—			4			0.06
Loans and receivables		4			8			0.11
Other assets⁽¹⁾		—			(0	)		(0.00	)

Total	¥	2		¥	7		$	0.10

Liabilities:
Short-term borrowings⁽³⁾	¥	(5	)	¥	1		$	0.02
Collateralized financing⁽²⁾		—			(0	)		(0.00	)
Long-term borrowings⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾		(61	)		95			1.23

Total	¥	(66	)	¥	96		$	1.25


	Billions of yen						Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
	Net gain (loss) on trading			Net gain (loss) on trading			Net gain (loss) on trading
Assets:
Trading assets and private equity investments⁽¹⁾
Trading assets	¥	(2	)	¥	1		$	0.01
Private equity		0			0			0.00
Collateralized agreements⁽²⁾		—			1			0.01
Loans and receivables		3			8			0.10
Other assets⁽¹⁾		—			0			0.00

Total	¥	1		¥	10		$	0.12

Liabilities:
Short-term borrowings⁽³⁾	¥	(9	)	¥	0		$	0.00
Collateralized financing⁽²⁾		—			0			0.00
Long-term borrowings⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾		(88	)		86			1.12

Total	¥	(97	)	¥	86		$	1.12

(1)	Includes equity investments that would have been accounted for under the equity method had Nomura not chosen to elect the fair value option.

(2)	Includes resale and repurchase agreements elected for the fair value option.

(3)	Includes structured notes and other financial liabilities elected for the fair value option.

(4)	Includes liabilities recognized from secured financing transactions arising from transfers of financial assets which did not meet the criteria for sales accounting.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Nomura elected to apply the fair value option for its 45.5% investment as of March 31, 2011 and 47.0% investment as of September 30, 2011 in the common stock of Ashikaga Holdings Co., Ltd. This investment is reported within Trading assets and private equity investments—Private equity investments and Others assets—Other in the consolidated balance sheets.

Nomura calculates the impact of changes in its own creditworthiness on certain financial liabilities for which the fair value option is elected by discounting future cash flows at a rate which incorporates observable changes in its credit spread. Gains from changes in the fair value of the financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected, attributable to the change in Nomura’s creditworthiness were ¥6 billion for the six months ended September 30, 2010, mainly due to the widening of Nomura’s credit spread. Gains from changes in the fair value of the financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected, attributable to the change in its creditworthiness were ¥10 billion ($0.13 billion) for the six months ended September 30, 2011, mainly due to the widening of Nomura’s credit spread. Losses from changes in the fair value of the financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected, attributable to the change in its creditworthiness, were ¥3 billion for the three months ended September 30, 2010, mainly due to the tightening of Nomura’s credit spread. Gains from changes in the fair value of the financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected, attributable to the change in its creditworthiness were ¥15 billion ($0.20 billion) for the three months ended September 30, 2011, mainly due to the widening of Nomura’s credit spread.

There was no significant impact on financial assets for which the fair value option was elected attributable to instrument-specific credit risk.

As of March 31, 2011, there were no significant differences between the fair value of the aggregate unpaid principal balance (which is contractually principally protected) of loans and receivables for which the fair value option was elected and the principal balance of such loans and receivables. The fair value of the aggregate unpaid principal balance (which is contractually principally protected) of long-term borrowings for which the fair value option was elected was ¥50 billion less than the principal balance of such long-term borrowings. There were no loans and receivables for which the fair value option was elected that were 90 days or more past due. As of September 30, 2011, the fair value of the aggregate unpaid principal balance (which is contractually principally protected) of loans and receivables for which the fair value option was elected was ¥1 billion ($0.01 billion) more than the principal balance of such loans and receivables. The fair value of the aggregate unpaid principal balance (which is contractually principally protected) of long-term borrowings for which the fair value option was elected was ¥38 billion ($0.49 billion) less than the principal balance of such long-term borrowings. There were no loans and receivables for which the fair value option was elected that were 90 days or more past due.

Assets and liabilities carried at fair value on a nonrecurring basis—

In addition to the financial instruments carried at fair value on a recurring basis, Nomura also carries other assets and liabilities at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, where the primary measurement basis is not fair value. Fair value is only used in specific circumstances such as to measure impairment.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Estimated fair value

Financial assets which are carried at contractual amounts that approximate fair value include Cash and cash equivalents, Time deposits, Deposits with stock exchanges and other segregated cash, Receivables from customers, Receivables from other than customers, Securities purchased under agreements to resell, and Securities borrowed. Financial liabilities which are carried at contractual amounts that approximate fair value include Short-term borrowings, Payables to customers, Payables to other than customers, Deposits received at banks, Securities sold under agreements to repurchase, Securities loaned and Other secured borrowings. These financial instruments mature principally within one year and bear interest at rates that approximate market rates.

Loans receivable

Loans receivable are carried at cost adjusted for deferred fees or costs on originated loans, unamortized premiums or discounts on purchased loans less applicable allowances for loan losses, unless the fair value option is elected and they are held at fair value. The fair value of loans receivable is estimated based on loan characteristics. Where quoted market prices are available, such market prices are utilized to estimate fair value.

The following table presents carrying values and fair values or approximate fair values of loans receivable. Carrying values are shown after deducting allowances for loan losses.


	Billions of yen								Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011				September 30, 2011				September 30, 2011
	Carrying value		Fair value		Carrying value		Fair value		Carrying value		Fair value
Loans receivable	¥	1,268	¥	1,265	¥	1,024	¥	1,021	$	13.29	$	13.25

Long-term borrowings

For long-term borrowings, certain hybrid financial instruments including structured notes are carried at fair value under the fair value option. Except for those instruments, long-term borrowings are carried at historical amounts unless such borrowings are designated as the hedged item in a fair value hedge. The fair value of long-term borrowings is estimated using quoted market prices where available or by discounting future cash flows.

The following table presents carrying values and fair values or approximate fair values of long-term borrowings.


	Billions of yen								Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011				September 30, 2011				September 30, 2011
	Carrying value		Fair value		Carrying value		Fair value		Carrying value		Fair value
Long-term borrowings	¥	8,403	¥	8,179	¥	8,754	¥	8,479	$	113.63	$	110.06

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

4. Derivative instruments and hedging activities:

Nomura uses a variety of derivative financial instruments, including futures, forwards, options and swaps, for both trading and non-trading purposes.

Derivatives used for trading purposes

In the normal course of business, Nomura enters into transactions involving derivative financial instruments to meet clients needs, for its trading activities, and to reduce its own exposure to loss due to adverse fluctuations in interest rates, currency exchange rates and market prices of securities. These financial instruments include contractual agreements such as commitments to swap interest payment streams, exchange currencies or purchase or sell securities and other financial instruments on specific terms at specific future dates.

Nomura also enters into various derivative financial instrument transactions including futures, forwards, option and swap contracts involving securities, foreign currency, interest rate and other capital market instruments as part of its normal trading activities and for market risk management of certain non-trading assets and liabilities.

Nomura maintains active trading positions in a variety of derivative financial instruments. Most of Nomura’s trading activities are client oriented. Nomura utilizes a variety of derivative financial instruments as a means of bridging clients’ specific financial needs and investors’ demands in the securities markets. Nomura also actively trades securities and various derivatives to assist its clients in adjusting their risk profiles as markets change. In performing these activities, Nomura carries an inventory of capital markets instruments and maintains its access to market liquidity by quoting bid and offer prices to and trading with other market makers. These activities are essential to provide clients with securities and other capital markets products at competitive prices.

Futures and forwards contracts are commitments to either purchase or sell securities, foreign currency or other capital market instruments at a specific future date for a specified price and may be settled in cash or through delivery. Foreign exchange contracts include spot and forward contracts and involve the exchange of two currencies at a rate agreed by the contracting parties. Risks arise from the possible inability of counterparties to meet the terms of their contracts and from movements in market prices. Futures contracts are executed through regulated exchanges which clear and guarantee performance of counterparties. Accordingly, credit risk associated with futures contracts is considered minimal. In contrast, forward contracts are generally negotiated between two counterparties and, therefore, are subject to the performance of the related counterparties.

Options are contracts that grant the purchaser, for a premium payment, the right to either purchase or sell a financial instrument at a specified price within a specified period of time or on a specified date from or to the writer of the option. The writer of options receives premiums and bears the risk of unfavorable changes in the market price of the financial instruments underlying the options.

Swaps are contractual agreements in which two counterparties agree to exchange certain cash flows, at specified future dates, based on an agreed contract. Certain agreements may result in combined interest rate and foreign currency exposures. Entering into swap agreements may involve the risk of credit losses in the event of the counterparties’ default.

To the extent these derivative financial instruments are economically hedging financial instruments or securities positions of Nomura, the overall risk of loss may be fully or partly mitigated by the hedged position.

Nomura seeks to minimize its exposure to market risk arising from its use of these derivative financial instruments through various control policies and procedures, including position limits, monitoring procedures and hedging strategies whereby Nomura enters into offsetting or other positions in a variety of financial instruments. Credit risk associated with these financial instruments is controlled by Nomura through credit approvals, limits and monitoring procedures. To reduce default risk, Nomura requires collateral, principally cash collateral and government securities, for certain derivative transactions. From an economic standpoint, Nomura evaluates default risk exposure net of related collateral. Furthermore, Nomura generally enters into International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. master agreements or their equivalents (“Master Netting Agreements”) with each of its counterparties. Master Netting Agreements provide a right of offset in the event of bankruptcy and mitigate the credit risk exposure from these transactions. In some cases, they enable unrealized gains and losses arising from Nomura’s dealings in over-the-counter derivatives to be presented on a net-by-counterparty basis and on a net-by-cash collateral basis in accordance with ASC 210-20 “Balance Sheet—Offsetting”.

Nomura offset ¥605 billion of cash collateral receivables against net derivative liabilities and ¥456 billion of cash collateral payables against net derivative assets as of March 31, 2011. Nomura offset ¥1,015 billion ($13.17 billion) of cash collateral receivables against net derivative liabilities and ¥873 billion ($11.33 billion) of cash collateral payables against net derivative assets as of September 30, 2011.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Derivatives used for non-trading purposes

Nomura’s principal objectives in using derivatives for non-trading purposes are to manage interest rate risk, to modify the interest rate characteristics of certain financial liabilities, to manage net investment exposure to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates arising from certain foreign operations and to mitigate equity price risk arising from certain stock-based compensation awards given to employees. Credit risk associated with derivatives utilized for non-trading purposes is controlled and managed in the same way as credit risk associated with derivatives utilized for trading purposes.

Nomura designates derivative financial instruments as fair value hedges of interest rate risk arising from specific financial liabilities. These derivatives are effective in reducing the risk associated with the exposure being hedged and they are highly correlated with changes in the fair value of the underlying hedged item, both at inception and throughout the life of the hedge contract. Changes in fair value of the hedging derivatives are reported together with those of the hedged liabilities through the consolidated statements of operations within Interest expense.

Derivative financial instruments designated as hedges of the net investment in foreign operations are linked to specific subsidiaries with non-Japanese yen functional currencies. When determining the effectiveness of net investment hedges, the effective portion of the change in fair value of the hedging derivative is determined by changes in spot exchange rates and is reported through Nomura Holdings, Inc. (“NHI”) shareholders’ equity within Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). Changes in fair value of the hedging derivatives attributable to changes in the difference between the forward rate and spot rate are excluded from the measure of hedge effectiveness and are reported in the consolidated statements of operations within Revenue—Other.

Concentrations of credit risk for derivatives

The following table presents Nomura’s significant concentration of exposures to credit risk in OTC derivatives with financial institutions. The gross fair value of derivative assets represents the maximum amount of loss due to credit risk that Nomura would incur if the counterparties of Nomura failed to perform in accordance with the terms of the instruments and any collateral or other security Nomura held in relation to those instruments proved to be of no value.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Gross Fair Value of Derivative Assets		Impact of Master Netting Agreements			Impact of Collateral			Net Exposure to Credit Risk
Financial institutions	¥	12,733	¥	(11,611	)	¥	(442	)	¥	680

	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Gross Fair Value of Derivative Assets		Impact of Master Netting Agreements			Impact of Collateral			Net Exposure to Credit Risk
Financial institutions	¥	22,138	¥	(20,761	)	¥	(804	)	¥	573

	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Gross Fair Value of derivative assets		Impact of Master Netting Agreements			Impact of Collateral			Net Exposure to Credit Risk
Financial institutions	$	287.36	$	(269.48	)	$	(10.44	)	$	7.44

Derivative activities

Derivative financial instruments used for trading purposes are recognized through the consolidated balance sheets within Trading assets or Trading liabilities depending on whether it has positive fair value or negative fair value. Bifurcated embedded derivatives are carried at Short-term borrowings or Long-term borrowings according to the due date of a contract. Non-trading derivatives are recognized through the consolidated balance sheets within Trading assets or Trading liabilities depending on whether it has positive fair value or negative fair value.

The following table quantifies the volume of Nomura’s derivative activity through a disclosure of notional amounts, in comparison with the fair value of those derivatives. All amounts are disclosed on a gross basis, prior to counterparty netting of derivative assets and liabilities and cash collateral netting against net derivatives.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Derivative Assets				Derivative Liabilities
	Notional		Fair Value		Notional⁽¹⁾		Fair Value⁽¹⁾
Derivatives used for trading purposes⁽²⁾⁽³⁾:
Equity contracts	¥	16,229	¥	1,472	¥	16,257	¥	1,511
Interest rate contracts		652,220		11,937		689,543		11,759
Credit contracts		37,075		2,066		38,432		2,093
Foreign exchange contracts		52,150		1,315		61,310		1,384
Commodity contracts		753		97		555		107

Total	¥	758,427	¥	16,887	¥	806,097	¥	16,854

Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate contracts	¥	1,531	¥	32	¥	535	¥	4
Foreign exchange contracts		20		0		116		2

Total	¥	1,551	¥	32	¥	651	¥	6

Total derivatives	¥	759,978	¥	16,919	¥	806,748	¥	16,860


	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Derivative Assets				Derivative Liabilities
	Notional		Fair Value		Notional⁽¹⁾		Fair Value⁽¹⁾
Derivatives used for trading purposes⁽²⁾⁽³⁾:
Equity contracts	¥	20,840	¥	1,910	¥	18,980	¥	1,904
Interest rate contracts		681,870		21,168		663,700		20,911
Credit contracts		36,911		2,691		39,074		2,696
Foreign exchange contracts		77,683		2,189		76,351		2,059
Commodity contracts		223		28		216		33

Total	¥	817,527	¥	27,986	¥	798,321	¥	27,603

Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate contracts	¥	1,915	¥	81	¥	—	¥	—
Foreign exchange contracts		141		2		91		0

Total	¥	2,056	¥	83	¥	91	¥	0

Total derivatives	¥	819,583	¥	28,069	¥	798,412	¥	27,603


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Derivative Assets				Derivative Liabilities
	Notional		Fair Value		Notional⁽¹⁾		Fair Value⁽¹⁾
Derivatives used for trading purposes⁽²⁾⁽³⁾:
Equity contracts	$	270.51	$	24.79	$	246.37	$	24.71
Interest rate contracts		8,850.86		274.76		8,615.01		271.43
Credit contracts		479.11		34.93		507.19		34.99
Foreign exchange contracts		1,008.35		28.41		991.06		26.73
Commodity contracts		2.89		0.37		2.80		0.43

Total	$	10,611.72	$	363.26	$	10,362.43	$	358.29

Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate contracts	$	24.86	$	1.05	$	—	$	—
Foreign exchange contracts		1.83		0.03		1.18		0.00

Total	$	26.69	$	1.08	$	1.18	$	0.00

Total derivatives	$	10,638.41	$	364.34	$	10,363.61	$	358.29

(1)	Includes the amount of embedded derivatives bifurcated in accordance with ASC 815.

(2)

(3)	Includes derivatives used for non-trading purposes which are not designated as accounting hedges.

Changes in fair value are recognized either through gain or loss or other comprehensive income (loss) depending on the purpose for which the derivatives are used.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Derivatives used for trading purposes

Derivative financial instruments used for trading purposes, including bifurcated embedded derivatives, are carried at fair value with changes in fair value recognized through the consolidated statement of operations within Revenue—Net gain (loss) on trading.

The following table presents amounts included in the consolidated statements of operations related to derivatives used for trading purposes by type of underlying derivative contract.


	Billions of yen						Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Derivatives used for trading purposes⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾:
Equity contracts	¥	269		¥	9		$	0.12
Interest rate contracts		10			122			1.58
Credit contracts		22			(29	)		(0.38	)
Foreign exchange contracts		(115	)		15			0.19
Commodity contracts		0			7			0.09

Total	¥	186		¥	124		$	1.60


	Billions of yen						Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Derivatives used for trading purposes⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾:
Equity contracts	¥	(3	)	¥	(28	)	$	(0.36	)
Interest rate contracts		69			23			0.30
Credit contracts		(6	)		(14	)		(0.18	)
Foreign exchange contracts		(49	)		(5	)		(0.06	)
Commodity contracts		1			(3	)		(0.04	)

Total	¥	12		¥	(27	)	$	(0.34	)

(1)

(2)	Includes net gain (loss) on derivatives used for non-trading purposes which are not designated as accounting hedges.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Fair value hedges

Nomura issues Japanese yen and foreign currency denominated debt with both fixed and floating interest rates. Nomura generally enters into swap agreements to convert fixed rate interest payments on its debt obligations to a floating rate and applies hedge accounting to these instruments. Derivative financial instruments designated as fair value hedges are carried at fair value. Changes in fair value of the hedging derivatives are recognized together with those of the hedged liabilities in the consolidated statements of operations within Interest expense.

The following table presents amounts included in the consolidated statements of operations related to derivatives designated as fair value hedges by type of underlying derivative contract and the nature of the hedged item.


	Billions of yen						Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate contracts	¥	48		¥	59		$	0.77

Total	¥	48		¥	59		$	0.77

Hedged items:
Long-term borrowings	¥	(48	)	¥	(59	)	$	(0.77	)

Total	¥	(48	)	¥	(59	)	$	(0.77	)


	Billions of yen						Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate contracts	¥	19		¥	33		$	0.43

Total	¥	19		¥	33		$	0.43

Hedged items:
Long-term borrowings	¥	(19	)	¥	(33	)	$	(0.43	)

Total	¥	(19	)	¥	(33	)	$	(0.43	)

Net investment hedges

Effective from April 2010, Nomura designates foreign currency forwards and foreign currency denominated long-term debt as hedges of certain subsidiaries with significant foreign exchange risks and applies hedge accounting to these instruments. Accordingly, the effective hedging portion of the foreign exchange gains (losses) arising from the derivative contracts and non-derivative financial products designated as hedges is recognized through the consolidated statements of comprehensive income within Other comprehensive income (loss)—Change in cumulative translation adjustments, net of tax. This is offset by the foreign exchange adjustments arising from consolidation of the relevant foreign subsidiaries.

The following table presents gains (losses) from derivatives and non-derivatives designated as net investment hedges included in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.


	Billions of yen				Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010		2011		2011
Hedging instruments:
Foreign exchange contracts	¥	2	¥	10	$	0.13
Long-term borrowings		16		11		0.14

Total	¥	18	¥	21	$	0.27


	Billions of yen				Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010		2011		2011
Hedging instruments:
Foreign exchange contracts	¥	0	¥	8	$	0.10
Long-term borrowings		8		7		0.09

Total	¥	8	¥	15	$	0.19

(1)

The portion of the gains and losses representing the amount of hedge ineffectiveness and the amount excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness are recognized within Revenue—Other in the consolidated statements of operations. There were no material gains and losses during the six months ended September 30, 2010 and 2011.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Derivatives containing credit-risk-related contingent features

Nomura enters into certain OTC derivatives and other agreements containing credit-risk-related contingent features. These features would require Nomura to post additional collateral or settle the instrument upon occurrence of a credit event, the most common of which would be a downgrade in the Company’s long-term credit rating.

The aggregate fair value of all derivative instruments with credit-risk-related contingent features that are in a liability position as of March 31, 2011, was ¥1,779 billion with related collateral pledged of ¥958 billion. In the event of a one-notch downgrade to Nomura’s long-term credit rating, the aggregate fair value of assets that would have been required to be posted as additional collateral or that would have been needed to settle the instruments immediately was ¥18 billion. The aggregate fair value of all derivative instruments with credit-risk-related contingent features that are in a liability position as of September 30, 2011, was ¥1,988 billion ($25.81 billion) with related collateral pledged of ¥1,201 billion ($15.58 billion). In the event of a one-notch downgrade to Nomura’s long-term credit rating, the aggregate fair value of assets that would have been required to be posted as additional collateral or that would have been needed to settle the instruments immediately was ¥19 billion($0.24 billion).

Credit derivatives

Credit derivatives are derivative instruments in which one or more of their underlyings are related to the credit risk of a specified entity (or group of entities) or an index based on the credit risk of a group of entities that expose the seller of the credit derivatives to potential loss from credit-risk-related events specified in the contract.

Written credit derivatives are instruments or embedded features where Nomura assumes third party credit risk, either as guarantor in a guarantee-type contract, or as the party that provides credit protection in an option-type contract, credit default swap, or any other credit derivative contract.

Nomura enters into credit derivatives as part of its normal trading activities as both purchaser and seller for credit risk mitigation, proprietary trading positions and client transactions.

The most significant type of credit derivatives used by Nomura is single-name credit default swap where settlement of the derivative is based on the credit risk of a single third party. Nomura also writes credit derivatives linked to the performance of credit default indices and issues other credit-risk-related portfolio products.

Nomura would have to perform under a credit derivative contract if a credit event as defined in the respective contract occurs. Typical credit events include bankruptcy, failure to pay and restructuring of obligations of the referenced security.

Credit derivative contracts written by Nomura are either cash or physically settled. In cash-settled instruments, once payment is made upon an event of a default, the contract usually terminates with no further payments due. Nomura generally has no right to assume the reference assets of the counterparty in exchange for payment, nor does Nomura usually have any direct recourse to the actual issuers of the reference assets to recover the amount paid. In physically-settled contracts, upon a default event, Nomura takes delivery of the reference asset in return for payment of the full notional amount of the contract.

Nomura actively monitors and manages its credit derivative exposures. Where protection is sold, risks may be mitigated by purchasing credit protection from other third parties either on identical underlying reference assets or on underlying reference assets with the same issuer which would be expected to behave in a correlated fashion. The most common form of recourse provision to enable Nomura to recover from third parties any amounts paid under a written credit derivative is therefore not through the derivative itself but rather through the separate purchase of credit derivatives with identical or correlated underlyings.

Nomura quantifies the value of these purchased contracts in the following tables in the column titled “Purchased Credit Protection”. These amounts represent purchased credit protection with identical underlyings to the written credit derivative contracts which act as a hedge against Nomura’s exposure. To the extent Nomura is required to pay out under the written credit derivative, a similar amount would generally become due to Nomura under the purchased hedge.

Credit derivatives have a stated notional amount which represents the maximum payment Nomura may be required to make under the contract. However, this is generally not a true representation of the amount Nomura will actually pay as in addition to purchased credit protection, other risk mitigating factors reduce the likelihood and amount of any payment, including:

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The probability of default: Nomura values credit derivatives taking into account the probability that the underlying reference asset will default and that Nomura will be required to make payments under the contract. Based on historical experience and Nomura’s assessment of the market, Nomura believes that the probability that all reference assets on which Nomura provides protection will default in a single period is remote. The disclosed notional amount, therefore, significantly overstates Nomura’s true exposure on these contracts.

The recovery value on the underlying asset: In the case of a default, Nomura’s liability on a contract is limited to the difference between the notional amount and the recovery value of the underlying reference asset. While the recovery value on a defaulted asset may be minimal, this does reduce amounts paid on these contracts.

Nomura holds assets as collateral in relation to written credit derivatives. However, these amounts do not enable Nomura to recover any amounts paid under the credit derivative but rather mitigate the risk of economic loss arising from a counterparty defaulting against amounts due to Nomura under the contract. Collateral requirements are determined on a counterparty level rather than individual contract, and also generally cover all types of derivative contracts rather than just credit derivatives.

The following tables present the amounts of Nomura’s written credit derivatives and purchased credit protection with identical underlyings as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
			Maximum Potential Payout/Notional										Notional
	Carrying value (Asset) / liability⁽¹⁾		Total		Years to Maturity								Purchased Credit Protection
	Carrying value (Asset) / liability⁽¹⁾		Total		Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		3 to 5 years		More than 5 years		Purchased Credit Protection
Single-name credit default swaps	¥	56	¥	18,933	¥	2,082	¥	8,416	¥	6,953	¥	1,482	¥	17,020
Credit default indices		117		12,666		806		4,372		6,275		1,213		10,956
Other credit-risk-related portfolio products		19		3,552		247		2,421		696		188		2,143
Credit-risk-related options and swaptions		0		212		4		—		208		—		121

Total	¥	192	¥	35,363	¥	3,139	¥	15,209	¥	14,132	¥	2,883	¥	30,240


	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
			Maximum Potential Payout/Notional										Notional
	Carrying value (Asset) / liability⁽¹⁾		Total		Years to Maturity								Purchased Credit Protection
	Carrying value (Asset) / liability⁽¹⁾		Total		Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		3 to 5 years		More than 5 years		Purchased Credit Protection
Single-name credit default swaps	¥	1,117	¥	18,515	¥	1,963	¥	6,411	¥	7,833	¥	2,308	¥	17,016
Credit default indices		716		12,865		776		3,063		7,134		1,892		10,915
Other credit-risk-related portfolio products		237		3,260		677		1,327		1,003		253		2,040
Credit-risk-related options and swaptions		3		493		—		—		485		8		463

Total	¥	2,073	¥	35,133	¥	3,416	¥	10,801	¥	16,455	¥	4,461	¥	30,434


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
			Maximum Potential Payout/Notional										Notional
	Carrying value (Asset) / liability⁽¹⁾		Total		Years to Maturity								Purchased Credit Protection
	Carrying value (Asset) / liability⁽¹⁾		Total		Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		3 to 5 years		More than 5 years		Purchased Credit Protection
Single-name credit default swaps	$	14.50	$	240.33	$	25.48	$	83.22	$	101.67	$	29.96	$	220.87
Credit default indices		9.29		166.99		10.07		39.76		92.60		24.56		141.68
Other credit-risk-related portfolio products		3.08		42.31		8.79		17.22		13.02		3.28		26.48
Credit-risk-related options and swaptions		0.04		6.40		—		—		6.30		0.10		6.01

Total	$	26.91	$	456.03	$	44.34	$	140.20	$	213.59	$	57.90	$	395.04

(1)	Carrying value amounts are shown on a gross basis prior to cash collateral or counterparty netting.

F-46

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following tables present the amounts of Nomura’s written credit derivatives by external credit rating of the underlying asset. Ratings are based on Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”), or if not rated by S&P, based on Moody’s Investors Service. If ratings from either of these agencies are not available, the ratings are based on Fitch Ratings Ltd. or Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd. For credit default indices, the rating is determined by taking the weighted average of the external credit ratings given for each of the underlying reference entities comprising the portfolio or index.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Maximum Potential Payout/Notional
	AAA		AA		A		BBB		BB		Other⁽¹⁾		Total
Single-name credit default swaps	¥	2,200	¥	1,182	¥	5,789	¥	5,722	¥	2,586	¥	1,454	¥	18,933
Credit default indices		1,228		375		5,592		3,202		577		1,692		12,666
Other credit-risk-related portfolio products		22		—		—		0		—		3,530		3,552
Credit-risk-related options and swaptions		25		—		29		154		4		—		212

Total	¥	3,475	¥	1,557	¥	11,410	¥	9,078	¥	3,167	¥	6,676	¥	35,363


	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Maximum Potential Payout/Notional
	AAA		AA		A		BBB		BB		Other⁽¹⁾		Total
Single-name credit default swaps	¥	2,000	¥	1,418	¥	5,426	¥	5,028	¥	2,679	¥	1,964	¥	18,515
Credit default indices		1,435		384		4,987		3,664		508		1,887		12,865
Other credit-risk-related portfolio products		8		—		—		—		—		3,252		3,260
Credit-risk-related options and swaptions		—		—		—		458		—		35		493

Total	¥	3,443	¥	1,802	¥	10,413	¥	9,150	¥	3,187	¥	7,138	¥	35,133


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Maximum Potential Payout/Notional
	AAA		AA		A		BBB		BB		Other⁽¹⁾		Total
Single-name credit default swaps	$	25.96	$	18.41	$	70.43	$	65.26	$	34.78	$	25.49	$	240.33
Credit default indices		18.63		4.98		64.73		47.57		6.59		24.49		166.99
Other credit-risk-related portfolio products		0.10		—		—		—		—		42.21		42.31
Credit-risk-related options and swaptions		—		—		—		5.94		—		0.46		6.40

Total	$	44.69	$	23.39	$	135.16	$	118.77	$	41.37	$	92.65	$	456.03

(1)	“Other” includes credit derivatives where the credit rating of the underlying reference asset is below investment grade or where a rating is unavailable.

F-47

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

5. Collateralized transactions:

Nomura enters into collateralized transactions, including resale and repurchase agreements, securities borrowed and loaned transactions, and other secured borrowings mainly to meet clients’ needs, finance trading inventory positions and obtain securities for settlements. Under these transactions, Nomura either receives or provides collateral, including Japanese and non-Japanese government, agency, mortgage-backed, bank and corporate debt securities and equities. In many cases, Nomura is permitted to use the securities received to secure repurchase agreements, enter into securities lending transactions or to cover short positions with counterparties.

The fair value of securities received as collateral, securities borrowed with collateral and securities borrowed without collateral which Nomura is permitted to sell or repledge and the portion that has been sold or repledged are as follows:


	Billions of yen				Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
The fair value of securities received as collateral, securities borrowed with collateral and securities borrowed without collateral where Nomura is permitted to sell or repledge the securities	¥	28,262	¥	30,241	$	393
The portion of the above that has been sold (reported within Trading liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets) or repledged		22,576		23,215		301

Nomura pledges firm-owned securities to collateralize repurchase agreements and other secured financings. Pledged securities that can be sold or repledged by the secured party, including Gensaki Repo transactions, are reported in parentheses as Securities pledged as collateral within Trading assets on the consolidated balance sheets. Assets owned, which have been pledged as collateral, primarily to stock exchanges and clearing organizations, without allowing the secured party the right to sell or repledge them, are summarized in the table below:


	Millions of yen				Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
Trading assets:
Equities and convertible bonds	¥	29,935	¥	10,613	$	138
Government and government agency securities		977,291		1,808,737		23,478
Bank and corporate debt securities		93,250		114,971		1,492
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”)		54,725		27,823		361
Residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)		1,572,177		1,105,775		14,353
Collateralized debt obligations (“CDO”) and other⁽¹⁾		64,247		80,424		1,044
Investment trust funds and other		9,652		21,354		278

Total	¥	2,801,277	¥	3,169,697	$	41,144

Non-trading debt securities	¥	86,234	¥	88,885	$	1,154
Investments in and advance to affiliated companies	¥	36,639	¥	32,736	$	425

(1)	Includes collateralized loan obligations (CLO) and asset-backed securities (ABS) (e.g., credit card loans, auto loans, student loans and etc.).

F-48

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Assets subject to lien, except for those disclosed above, are as follows:


	Millions of yen				Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
Loans and receivables	¥	27,635	¥	7,406	$	96
Trading assets		2,010,605		1,818,357		23,603
Office buildings, land, equipment and facilities		20,815		138,736		1,801
Non-trading debt securities		278,261		324,092		4,207
Other		—		265,038		3,440

Total	¥	2,337,316	¥	2,553,629	$	33,147

Assets in the above table were primarily pledged for secured borrowings, including other secured borrowings, collateralized bonds of consolidated VIEs and trading balances of secured borrowings, and derivative transactions.

Resale and repurchase agreements (“repo transactions”) principally involve the buying or selling of government and government agency securities under agreements with clients to resell or repurchase these securities to or from those clients. Nomura monitors the value of the underlying securities on a daily basis relative to the related receivables and payables, including accrued interest, and requests or returns additional collateral when appropriate. Repo transactions are generally accounted for as collateralized agreements or collateralized financing transactions and are recorded on the consolidated balance sheets at the amount at which the securities were originally acquired or sold with applicable accrued interest, as appropriate. Certain repo transactions are carried at fair value through election of the fair value option. No allowance for credit losses is generally recorded on repurchase agreements due to the strict collateralization requirements.

Repo transactions where the maturity of the security transferred as collateral matches the maturity of the repo transaction (“repo-to-maturity transactions”) are accounted for as sales rather than collateralized financings where the criteria for derecognition of the securities transferred under ASC 860 are met. The amounts of securities derecognized from the consolidated balance sheets under repo-to-maturity transactions as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011 were ¥169,766 million and ¥58,946million ($765 million), respectively.

Securities borrowed and securities loaned are generally accounted for as collateralized agreements and collateralized financing transactions, respectively. Securities borrowed and securities loaned are generally cash collateralized and are recorded on the consolidated balance sheets at the amount of cash collateral advanced or received. Securities borrowed transactions generally required Nomura to provide the counterparty with collateral in the form of cash or other securities. For securities loaned transactions, Nomura generally receives collateral in the form of cash or other securities. Nomura monitors the market value of the securities borrowed or loaned and requires additional cash or securities, as necessary, to ensure that such transactions are adequately collateralized. No allowance for credit losses is generally recorded on securities borrowing transactions due to the strict collateralization requirements.

Certain Japanese securities lending transactions are accounted for as sales where the criteria for derecognition of the transferred financial assets under ASC 860 are met. The amounts of securities derecognized from the consolidated balance sheets under these transactions as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011 were ¥291,870 million and ¥227,481 million ($2,953 million), respectively.

F-49

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

6. Securitizations and Variable Interest Entities:

Securitizations

Nomura utilizes special purpose entities (“SPEs”) to securitize commercial and residential mortgage loans, government agency and corporate bonds and other types of financial assets. Those SPEs are incorporated as stock companies, Tokumei kumiai (silent partnerships), Cayman SPCs or trust accounts. Nomura’s involvement with SPEs includes structuring SPEs, underwriting, distributing and selling debt instruments and beneficial interests issued by SPEs to investors. Nomura accounts for the transfer of financial assets in accordance with ASC 860. This statement requires that Nomura accounts for the transfer of financial assets as a sale when Nomura relinquishes control over the assets. ASC 860 deems control to be relinquished when the following conditions are met: (a) the assets have been isolated from the transferor (even in bankruptcy or other receivership), (b) the transferee has the right to pledge or exchange the assets received, or if the transferee is an entity whose sole purpose is to engage in securitization or asset-backed financing activities, and that entity is constrained from pledging or exchanging the assets it receives, the holders of its beneficial interests have the right to pledge or exchange the beneficial interests, and (c) the transferor has not maintained effective control over the transferred assets. Nomura may retain an interest in the financial assets, including residual interests in the SPEs. Any such interests are accounted for at fair value and reported within Trading assets in Nomura’s consolidated balance sheets, with the change in fair value reported within Revenue—Net gain (loss) on trading. Fair value for retained interests in securitized financial assets is determined by using observable prices; or in cases where observable prices are not available for certain retained interests, Nomura estimates fair value based on the present value of expected future cash flows using its best estimates of the key assumptions, including forecasted credit losses, prepayment rates, forward yield curves and discount rates commensurate with the risks involved. Nomura may also enter into derivative transactions in relation to the assets transferred to an SPE.

As noted above, Nomura may have continuing involvement with SPEs to which Nomura transferred assets. During the six months ended September 30, 2010 and the three months ended September 30, 2010, Nomura received cash proceeds from SPEs of ¥126 billion and ¥77 billion, respectively, and recognized associated loss on sale of ¥2 million and ¥3 million, respectively. During the six months ended September 30, 2011 and the three months ended September 30, 2011, Nomura received cash proceeds from SPEs of ¥138 billion ($1.80 billion) and ¥90 billion ($1.17 billion), respectively, and recognized associated loss on sale of ¥0 million ($0.0 million) and ¥0 million($0.0 million), respectively. During the six months ended September 30, 2011 and the three months ended September 30, 2011, Nomura received debt securities issued by these SPEs with an initial fair value of ¥682 billion ($8.85 billion) and ¥322 billion ($4.18 billion), respectively, and cash inflows from third parties on the sale of those debt securities of ¥334 billion ($4.34 billion) and ¥192 billion ($2.49 billion), respectively. The cumulative balance of financial assets transferred to SPEs with which Nomura has continuing involvement was ¥3,141 billion and ¥3,002 billion ($38.97 billion) as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively. Nomura’s retained interests were ¥199 billion and ¥130 billion ($1.69 billion) as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively. For the six months ended September 30, 2010 and the three months ended September 30, 2010, Nomura received cash flows of ¥11 billion and ¥6 billion, respectively, from the SPEs on the retained interests held in the SPEs. For the six months ended September 30, 2011 and the three months ended September 30, 2011, Nomura received cash flows of ¥6 billion ($0.08 billion) and ¥3 billion ($0.04 billion), respectively, from the SPEs on the retained interests held in the SPEs. Nomura had outstanding collateral service agreements or written credit default swap agreements in the amount of ¥28 billion and ¥25 billion ($0.32 billion) as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively. Nomura does not provide financial support to SPEs beyond its contractual obligations.

F-50

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following tables present the fair value of retained interests which Nomura has continuing involvement in SPEs and their classification in the fair value hierarchy, categorized by the type of transferred assets.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Total		Investment grade		Other
Government and government agency bonds	¥	—	¥	197	¥	—	¥	197	¥	194	¥	3
Bank and corporate debt securities		—		—		0		0		—		0
Mortgage and mortgage-backed securities		—		—		2		2		2		—

Total	¥	—	¥	197	¥	2	¥	199	¥	196	¥	3


	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Total		Investment grade		Other
Government and government agency bonds	¥	—	¥	128	¥	—	¥	128	¥	123	¥	5
Bank and corporate debt securities		—		—		0		0		—		0
Mortgage and mortgage-backed securities		—		—		2		2		2		0

Total	¥	—	¥	128	¥	2	¥	130	¥	125	¥	5


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Total		Investment grade		Other
Government and government agency bonds	$	—	$	1.66	$	—	$	1.66	$	1.60	$	0.06
Bank and corporate debt securities		—		—		0.00		0.00		—		0.00
Mortgage and mortgage-backed securities		—		—		0.03		0.03		0.03		0.00

Total	$	—	$	1.66	$	0.03	$	1.69	$	1.63	$	0.06

The following table presents the key economic assumptions used to determine the fair value of the retained interests and the sensitivity of this fair value to immediate adverse changes of 10% and 20% in those assumptions.


	Billions of yen, except percentages						Translation into billions of U.S. dollars, except percentages
	Material retained interest held⁽¹⁾
	March 31, 2011			September 30, 2011			September 30, 2011
Fair value of retained interests⁽¹⁾	¥	192		¥	121		$	1.57
Weighted-average life (Years)		6.3			4.6
Constant prepayment rate		7.1	%		17.6	%
Impact of 10% adverse change		(0.5	)		(1.6	)		(0.02	)
Impact of 20% adverse change		(1.0	)		(2.6	)		(0.03	)
Discount rate		4.7	%		3.8	%
Impact of 10% adverse change		(4.3	)		(1.9	)		(0.02	)
Impact of 20% adverse change		(7.4	)		(3.2	)		(0.04	)

(1)	The sensitivity analysis covers the material retained interests held of ¥192 billion out of ¥199 billion as of March 31, 2011 and ¥121 billion ($1.57 billion) out of ¥130 billion ($1.69 million) as of September 30, 2011.

Nomura considers the probability of anticipated credit loss from the retained interests which Nomura continuously holds would be minimal.

Changes in fair value based on 10% or 20% adverse changes generally cannot be extrapolated since the relationship of the change in assumption to the change in fair value may not be linear. The impact of a change in a particular assumption is calculated holding all other assumptions constant. For this reason, concurrent changes in assumptions may magnify or counteract the sensitivities disclosed above. The sensitivity analyses are hypothetical and do not reflect Nomura’s risk management practices that may be undertaken under those stress scenarios.

The following table presents the type and carrying value of financial assets included within Trading assets which have been transferred to SPEs but which do not meet the criteria for derecognition under ASC 860. These transfers are accounted for as secured financing transactions within Long-term borrowings. The assets are pledged as collateral of the associated liabilities and cannot be removed unilaterally by Nomura. Also these liabilities are non-recourse to Nomura.


	Billions of yen				Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
Assets
Trading assets
Equities	¥	89	¥	66	$	0.85
Debt securities		110		63		0.82
Mortgage and mortgage-backed securities		35		23		0.30
Loans receivable		22		19		0.25

Total	¥	256	¥	171	$	2.22

Liabilities
Long-term borrowings	¥	230	¥	153	$	1.99

F-51

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Variable Interest Entities

In the normal course of business, Nomura acts as a transferor of financial assets to VIEs, and underwriter, distributor, and seller of repackaged financial instruments issued by VIEs in connection with its securitization and equity derivative activities. Nomura retains, purchases and sells variable interests in VIEs in connection with its market-making, investing and structuring activities. Nomura consolidates VIEs for which Nomura is the primary beneficiary, including those that were created to market structured bonds to investors by repackaging corporate convertible bonds, and mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. Nomura also consolidates certain investment funds, which are VIEs, and for which Nomura is the primary beneficiary. Due to the adoption of ASC 810, as amended by ASU 2009-17 on April 1, 2010, Nomura consolidates certain SPEs which invest in the business of purchasing aircraft and operating leases of the aircraft and other SPEs engaged in various businesses.

The following table presents the classification of consolidated VIEs’ assets and liabilities in our consolidated financial statements. The assets of a consolidated VIE may only be used to settle obligations of that VIE. Creditors do not have any recourse to Nomura beyond the assets held in the VIEs.


	Billions of yen					Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011			September 30, 2011
Consolidated VIE assets
Cash and cash equivalents	¥	92	¥	68		$	0.88
Trading assets
Equities		785		839			10.89
Debt securities		239		155			2.01
Mortgage and mortgage-backed securities		67		65			0.84
Investment trust funds and other		8		0			0.00
Derivatives		10		4			0.06
Private equity investments		1		28			0.37
Securities purchased under agreements to resell		6		5			0.07
Office buildings, land, equipment and facilities⁽¹⁾		42		165	⁽³⁾		2.14	⁽³⁾
Other⁽²⁾		84		439	⁽³⁾		5.69	⁽³⁾

Total	¥	1,334	¥	1,768		$	22.95

Consolidated VIE liabilities
Trading liabilities
Debt securities	¥	6	¥	0		$	0.01
Derivatives		32		25			0.33
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase		2		—			—
Borrowings
Short-term borrowings		2		—			—
Long-term borrowings		1,030		1,182			15.34
Other		5		34			0.42

Total	¥	1,077	¥	1,241		$	16.10

(1)	Includes aircraft of ¥30 billion as of March 31, 2011 and ¥17 billion ($0.22 billion) as of September 30, 2011 held by SPEs consolidated due to the adoption of ASC 810 as amended by ASU 2009-17. Certain of these SPEs are mainly engaged in aircraft leasing business.

(2)

Includes aircraft purchase deposits of ¥15 billion as of March 31, 2011 and ¥15 billion ($0.19 billion) as of September 30, 2011. In relation to these aircraft purchase deposits, certain of these SPEs have commitments to purchase aircraft. Please refer to Note 13, “Commitments, contingencies and guarantees” for details.

(3)	Includes real estate and real estate for sale held by SPEs related to a subsidiary newly consolidated during the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Nomura also holds variable interests in VIEs where Nomura is not the primary beneficiary. Nomura’s variable interests in such VIEs include senior and subordinated debt, residual interests, and equity interests associated with commercial and residential mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securitizations and structured financings, equity interests in VIEs which were formed primarily to acquire high yield leveraged loans and other lower investment grade debt obligations, residual interests in operating leases for aircraft held by VIEs, and loans and investments in VIEs that acquire operating businesses.

F-52

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following tables present the carrying amount of variable interests of unconsolidated VIEs and maximum exposure to loss associated with these variable interests. Maximum exposure to loss does not reflect Nomura’s estimate of the actual losses that could result from adverse changes, nor does it reflect the economic hedges Nomura enters into to reduce its exposure. The risks associated with VIEs in which Nomura is involved are limited to the amount recorded in the consolidated balance sheets, the amount of commitments and financial guarantees, and the notional of the derivative instruments up to VIEs’ gross assets. Nomura believes the notional amount of derivative instruments generally exceeds the amount of actual risk.


	Billions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Carrying amount of variable interests				Maximum exposure to loss to unconsolidated VIEs
	Assets		Liabilities		Maximum exposure to loss to unconsolidated VIEs
Trading assets and liabilities
Equities	¥	80	¥	—	¥	80
Debt securities		164		—		164
Mortgage and mortgage-backed securities		2,070		—		2,070
Investment trust funds and other		80		—		80
Derivatives		1		8		17
Private equity investments		24		—		24
Loans
Short-term		3		—		3
Long-term		31		—		31
Other		4		—		4
Commitments to extend credit and other guarantees		—		—		17

Total	¥	2,457	¥	8	¥	2,490


	Billions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Carrying amount of variable interests				Maximum exposure to loss to unconsolidated VIEs
	Assets		Liabilities		Maximum exposure to loss to unconsolidated VIEs
Trading assets and liabilities
Equities	¥	49	¥	—	¥	49
Debt securities		186		—		186
Mortgage and mortgage-backed securities		2,031		—		2,031
Investment trust funds and other		119		—		119
Derivatives		0		8		25
Private equity investments		21		—		21
Loans
Short-term		3		—		3
Long-term		31		—		31
Other		11		—		11
Commitments to extend credit and other guarantees		—		—		18

Total	¥	2,451	¥	8	¥	2,494


	Translation into billions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Carrying amount of variable interests				Maximum exposure to loss to unconsolidated VIEs
	Assets		Liabilities		Maximum exposure to loss to unconsolidated VIEs
Trading assets and liabilities
Equities	$	0.63	$	—	$	0.63
Debt securities		2.42		—		2.42
Mortgage and mortgage-backed securities		26.36		—		26.36
Investment trust funds and other		1.55		—		1.55
Derivatives		0.00		0.10		0.32
Private equity investments		0.28		—		0.28
Loans
Short-term		0.04		—		0.04
Long-term		0.40		—		0.40
Other		0.14		—		0.14
Commitments to extend credit and other guarantees		—		—		0.23

Total	$	31.82	$	0.10	$	32.37

F-53

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

7. Financing receivables:

In the normal course of business, Nomura extends financing to clients primarily in the form of collateralized agreements such as reverse repurchase agreements and securities borrowing transactions and loans. These financing receivables are recognized as assets on Nomura’s consolidated balance sheets and provide a contractual right to receive money either on demand or on future fixed or determinable dates.

Collateralized agreements

Collateralized agreements consist of reverse repurchase agreements disclosed as Securities purchased under agreements to resell and securities borrowing transactions disclosed as Securities borrowed in the consolidated balance sheets, including those executed under Gensaki Repo agreements. Reverse repurchase agreements and securities borrowing transactions principally involve the buying of government and government agency securities from customers under agreements that also require Nomura to resell these securities to those customers. Nomura monitors the value of the underlying securities on a daily basis to the related receivables, including accrued interest, and requests or returns additional collateral when appropriate. Reverse repurchase agreements and securities borrowing transactions are generally recorded on the consolidated balance sheets at the amount at which the securities are purchased with applicable accrued interest. No allowance for credit losses is generally recorded on these transactions due to the strict collateralization requirements.

Loans receivable

The key types of loans receivable recognized by Nomura are loans at banks, short-term secured margin loans, inter-bank money market loans and corporate loans.

Loans at banks are secured and unsecured loans extended by licensed banks within Nomura. For those loans secured by real estate or securities, Nomura is exposed to the risk of a decline in the value of the underlying collateral. For unsecured loans provided to investment banking clients, Nomura is exposed to risk of default of the counterparty, although these counterparties usually have high credit ratings. Where loans are secured by guarantees, Nomura is also exposed to the risk of default by the guarantor.

Short-term secured margin loans are loans provided to clients in connection with stock brokerage activities. These loans provide funding for clients in order to purchase securities. Nomura requests initial margin in the form of acceptable collateral securities or deposits against these loans and holds the purchased securities as collateral through the life of the loans. If the value of the securities declines by more than specified amounts, Nomura can make additional margin calls in order to maintain a specified ratio of loan-to-value (“LTV”) ratio. For these reasons, the risk to Nomura of providing these loans is limited.

Inter-bank money market loans are loans to financial institutions in the inter-bank money market, where overnight and intra-day financings are traded through money market dealers. The risk to Nomura of making these loans is not significant as only qualified financial institutions can participate in these markets and these loans are usually overnight or short-term in nature.

Corporate loans are primarily loans provided to corporate clients. Corporate loans include loans secured by real estate or securities, as well as unsecured loans which Nomura provides to investment banking clients. The risk to Nomura of making these loans is similar to those risks arising from loans at banks.

In addition to the loans above, Nomura has advances to affiliated companies which are loans provided to related parties of Nomura. As these loans are generally not secured, Nomura is exposed to the risk of default of the counterparty.

F-54

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following table presents a summary of the loans receivable reported within Loans receivable or Investments in and advances to affiliated companies in the consolidated balance sheets by portfolio segment.


	Millions of yen				Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
Loans
Loans at banks	¥	320,296	¥	291,667	$	3,786
Short-term secured margin loans		206,910		212,487		2,758
Inter-bank money market loans		8,281		59,508		772
Corporate loans		735,797		463,443		6,016

Loans receivable total	¥	1,271,284	¥	1,027,105	$	13,332

of which:
Loans receivable carried at fair value⁽¹⁾	¥	554,180	¥	289,073	$	3,752
Loans receivable carried at amortized cost		717,104		738,032		9,580
Advances to affiliated companies		12,766		11,634		151

(1)	Accounted for at fair value through election of the fair value option

There were no significant purchases or sales of Loans receivable and no reclassification of Loans receivable to Trading assets during the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Allowance for loan losses

Management establishes an allowance for loan losses for loans carried at amortized cost which reflects management’s best estimate of probable losses incurred. The allowance for loan losses which is reported in the consolidated balance sheets within Allowance for doubtful accounts comprises two components:

•

A specific component for loans which have been individually evaluated for impairment; and

•

A general component for loans which, while not individually evaluated for impairment, have been collectively evaluated for impairment based on historical loss experience

The specific component of the allowance for loan losses reflects probable losses incurred within loans which have been individually evaluated for impairment. A loan is defined as being impaired when, based on current information and events, it is probable that all amounts due according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement will not be collected. Factors considered by management in determining impairment include an assessment of the ability of borrowers to pay by considering various factors such as the nature of the loan, prior loan loss experience, current economic conditions, the current financial situation of the borrower, and the fair value of any underlying collateral. Loans that experience insignificant payment delays or insignificant payment shortfalls are not classified as impaired. The impairment is measured on a loan by loan basis by adjusting the carrying value of the loan to either the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the loan’s effective interest rate, the loan’s obtainable market price, or the fair value of the collateral if the loan is collateral dependent.

The general component of the allowance for loan losses is for loans not individually evaluated for impairment and includes judgment about collectability based on available information at the balance sheet date and the uncertainties inherent in those underlying assumptions. The allowance is based on historical loss experience adjusted for qualitative factors such as current economic conditions.

While management has based its estimate of the allowance for loan losses on the best information available, future adjustments to the allowance for loan losses may be necessary as a result of changes in the economic environment or variances between actual results and original assumptions.

Loans are charged-off when Nomura determines that the loans are uncollectible. This determination is based on factors such as the occurrence of significant changes in the borrower’s financial position such that the borrower can no longer pay the obligation or that the proceeds from collateral will not be sufficient to pay the loans.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following tables present changes in the allowance for losses for the six months ended September 30, 2011 and three months ended September 30, 2011, respectively.


	Millions of yen
	Six months ended September 30, 2011
	Allowance for loan losses																Allowance for receivables other than loans			Total allowance for doubtful accounts
	Loans at banks		Short-term secured margin loans			Inter-bank money market loans		Corporate loans			Advances to affiliated companies			Subtotal			Allowance for receivables other than loans			Total allowance for doubtful accounts
Opening balance	¥	339	¥	37		¥	—	¥	3,422		¥	11		¥	3,809		¥	1,051		¥	4,860
Provision for losses		49		(4	)		—		71			(11	)		105			(179	)		(74	)
Charge-offs		—		—			—		—			—			—			(1	)		(1	)
Other⁽¹⁾		—		(1	)		—		(326	)		—			(327	)		370			43

Ending balance	¥	388	¥	32		¥	—	¥	3,167		¥	—		¥	3,587		¥	1,241		¥	4,828


	Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30, 2011
	Allowance for loan losses																Allowance for receivables other than loans			Total allowance for doubtful accounts
	Loans at banks		Short-term secured margin loans			Inter-bank money market loans		Corporate loans			Advances to affiliated companies			Subtotal			Allowance for receivables other than loans			Total allowance for doubtful accounts
Opening balance	$	4	$	1		$	—	$	44		$	0		$	49		$	14		$	63
Provision for losses		1		(0	)		—		1			(0	)		2			(2	)		(0	)
Charge-offs		—		—			—		—			—			—			(0	)		(0	)
Other⁽¹⁾		—		(0	)		—		(4	)		—			(4	)		4			0

Ending balance	$	5	$	1		$	—	$	41		$	—		$	47		$	16		$	63


	Millions of yen
	Three months ended September 30, 2011
	Allowance for loan losses																Allowance for receivables other than loans			Total allowance for doubtful accounts
	Loans at banks		Short-term secured margin loans			Inter-bank money market loans		Corporate loans			Advances to affiliated companies			Subtotal			Allowance for receivables other than loans			Total allowance for doubtful accounts
Opening balance	¥	339	¥	57		¥	—	¥	3,086		¥	11		¥	3,493		¥	1,460		¥	4,953
Provision for losses		49		(24	)		—		316			(11	)		330			(196	)		134
Charge-offs		—		—			—		—			—			—			—			—
Other⁽¹⁾		—		(1	)		—		(235	)		—			(236	)		(23	)		(259	)

Ending balance	¥	388	¥	32		¥	—	¥	3,167		¥	—		¥	3,587		¥	1,241		¥	4,828


		Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30, 2011
	Allowance for loan losses																Allowance for receivables other than loans			Total allowance for doubtful accounts
	Loans at banks		Short-term secured margin loans			Inter-bank money market loans		Corporate loans			Advances to affiliated companies			Subtotal			Allowance for receivables other than loans			Total allowance for doubtful accounts
Opening balance	$	4	$	1		$	—	$	40		$	0		$	45		$	19		$	64
Provision for losses		1		(0	)		—		4			(0	)		5			(3	)		2
Charge-offs		—		—			—		—			—			—			—			—
Other⁽¹⁾		—		(0	)		—		(3	)		—			(3	)		(0	)		(3	)

Ending balance	$	5	$	1		$	—	$	41		$	—		$	47		$	16		$	63

(1)	Includes the effect of foreign exchange movements.

F-56

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following tables present the allowance for loan losses and loans by impairment methodology and type of loans as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011, respectively.


	Millions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	Loans at banks		Short-term secured margin loans		Inter-bank money market loans		Corporate loans		Advances to affiliated companies		Total
Allowance by impairment methodology
Evaluated individually	¥	7	¥	—	¥	—	¥	3,272	¥	—	¥	3,279
Evaluated collectively		332		37		—		150		11		530

Total allowance for loan losses	¥	339	¥	37	¥	—	¥	3,422	¥	11	¥	3,809

Loans by impairment methodology
Evaluated individually	¥	7	¥	—	¥	8,281	¥	228,776	¥	483	¥	237,547
Evaluated collectively		257,270		206,910		—		15,860		12,283		492,323

Total loans	¥	257,277	¥	206,910	¥	8,281	¥	244,636	¥	12,766	¥	729,870


	Millions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	Loans at banks		Short-term secured margin loans		Inter-bank money market loans		Corporate loans		Advances to affiliated companies		Total
Allowance by impairment methodology
Evaluated individually	¥	6	¥	10	¥	—	¥	3,070	¥	—	¥	3,086
Evaluated collectively		382		22		—		97		—		501

Total allowance for loan losses	¥	388	¥	32	¥	—	¥	3,167	¥	—	¥	3,587

Loans by impairment methodology
Evaluated individually	¥	6	¥	66,632	¥	59,508	¥	216,173	¥	368	¥	342,687
Evaluated collectively		239,246		145,855		—		10,612		11,266		406,979

Total loans	¥	239,252	¥	212,487	¥	59,508	¥	226,785	¥	11,634	¥	749,666


	Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	Loans at banks		Short-term secured margin loans		Inter-bank money market loans		Corporate loans		Advances to affiliated companies		Total
Allowance by impairment methodology
Evaluated individually	$	0	$	0	$	—	$	40	$	—	$	40
Evaluated collectively		5		1		—		1		—		7

Total allowance for loan losses	$	5	$	1	$	—	$	41	$	—	$	47

Loans by impairment methodology
Evaluated individually	$	0	$	865	$	772	$	2,806	$	5	$	4,448
Evaluated collectively		3,106		1,893		—		138		146		5,283

Total loans	$	3,106	$	2,758	$	772	$	2,944	$	151	$	9,731

F-57

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Nonaccrual and past due loans

Loans which are individually evaluated as impaired are assessed for a nonaccrual status in accordance with Nomura’s policy. When it is determined to suspend interest accrual as a result of an assessment, any accrued but unpaid interest is reversed. Loans are generally only returned to an accrual status if the loan is brought contractually current, i.e. all overdue principal and interest amounts are paid. In limited circumstances, a loan which has not been brought contractually current will also be returned to an accrual status if all principal and interest amounts contractually due are reasonably assured of repayment within a reasonable period of time or there has been a sustained period of repayment performance by the borrower.

As of March 31, 2011, there were no significant loans which were on a nonaccrual status or 90 days past due and still accruing. As of September 30, 2011, there were ¥37,883 million ($492 million) of loans which were on a nonaccrual status, mainly for the unsecured corporate loans. There were no significant loans which were 90 days past due and still accruing. In addition, there was no significant debt restructuring that constitutes a troubled debt restructuring.

Credit quality indicators

Nomura is exposed to credit risks deriving from a decline in the value of loans or a default caused by deterioration of creditworthiness or bankruptcy of the borrower. Nomura’s risk management framework for such credit risks is based on a risk assessment through an internal credit rating process, in depth pre-financing credit analysis of each individual loan and continuous post-financing monitoring of borrower’s creditworthiness. Loans considered as collateralized transactions are not subject to an internal credit rating process as Nomura monitors the value of posted collateral closely and understands means to prevent potential losses.

The following tables present an analysis of each class of loans not carried at fair value using Nomura’s internal ratings or equivalent credit quality indicators applied by subsidiaries as of March 31, 2011 and September 30, 2011.


	Millions of yen
	March 31, 2011
	AAA-BBB		BB-CCC		CC-D		Others⁽¹⁾		Total
Secured loans at banks	¥	111,841	¥	17,449	¥	—	¥	25,344	¥	154,634
Unsecured loans at banks		102,636		—		7		—		102,643
Short-term secured margin loans		—		—		—		206,910		206,910
Secured inter-bank money market loans		8,281		—		—		—		8,281
Secured corporate loans		30,567		5,170		2,000		122,750		160,487
Unsecured corporate loans		30,309		52,445		1,395		—		84,149
Advances to affiliated companies		12,283		—		—		483		12,766

Total	¥	295,917	¥	75,064	¥	3,402	¥	355,487	¥	729,870


	Millions of yen
	September 30, 2011
	AAA-BBB		BB-CCC		CC-D		Others⁽¹⁾		Total
Secured loans at banks	¥	97,323	¥	24,872	¥	6	¥	33,548	¥	155,749
Unsecured loans at banks		83,503		—		—		—		83,503
Short-term secured margin loans		—		—		—		212,487		212,487
Secured inter-bank money market loans		9,508		—		—		—		9,508
Unsecured inter-bank money market loans		50,000		—		—		—		50,000
Secured corporate loans		33,145		72,651		4,368		50,832		160,996
Unsecured corporate loans		28,004		36,856		929		—		65,789
Advances to affiliated companies		11,266		—		—		368		11,634

Total	¥	312,749	¥	134,379	¥	5,303	¥	297,235	¥	749,666


	Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	September 30, 2011
	AAA-BBB		BB-CCC		CC-D		Others⁽¹⁾		Total
Secured loans at banks	$	1,264	$	323	$	0	$	435	$	2,022
Unsecured loans at banks		1,084		—		—		—		1,084
Short-term secured margin loans		—		—		—		2,758		2,758
Secured inter-bank money market loans		123		—		—		—		123
Unsecured inter-bank money market loans		649		—		—		—		649
Secured corporate loans		430		943		57		660		2,090
Unsecured corporate loans		364		478		12		—		854
Advances to affiliated companies		146		—		—		5		151

Total	$	4,060	$	1,744	$	69	$	3,858	$	9,731

(1)	Relate to collateral exposures where a specified ratio of LTV is maintained.

Nomura reviews internal counterparty credit ratings at least once a year by using available borrower’s credit information including financial statements and other information. Internal counterparty credit ratings are also reviewed more frequently for high-risk borrowers or problematic exposures and any significant credit event of a counterparty will trigger on immediate credit review process.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

8. Business combinations:

For the purpose of streamlining Nomura Group’s management structure for faster decision making in relation to reorganization, on May 13, 2011, Nomura entered into an agreement with one of its affiliated companies, Nomura Land and Building Co., Ltd. (“NLB”) to implement a share exchange (“Share Exchange Agreement”) effective on July 1, 2011. In advance of the effective date of the Share Exchange Agreement, Nomura acquired an additional 39.0% of the issued shares of NLB (“Share Purchases”) as of May 24, 2011. As a result of the Share Purchases, NLB became a consolidated subsidiary of Nomura during the three months ended June 30, 2011. Nomura’s total consideration in relation to the Share Purchases was approximately ¥37,620 million ($488 million). The difference between the fair value of the acquired net assets of NLB and the acquisition cost is accounted for as a bargain purchase gain of ¥44,963 million ($584 million) which is reported within Revenue—Other in the consolidated statements of operations.

The Share Purchases are accounted for as a step acquisition in these consolidated financial statements, because Nomura held 38.5% of the outstanding shares of NLB prior to the Share Purchases. Nomura remeasured the previously held equity investments in NLB and other companies which were acquired as a result of the Share Purchases at fair value. The change in fair value was a loss of ¥16,555 million ($215 million) which is reported within Revenue—Other in the consolidated statements of operations. The remeasurement to fair value was determined primarily based on the cost of the Share Purchases, in which the financial condition and assets of NLB were considered in reference to the valuation results provided by third party appraisers. As of the date of the Share Purchases, the previously held equity investments were remeasured at the fair value of ¥38,379 million ($498 million). Further, equity investments in NLB previously held by other affiliated companies of Nomura were also remeasured at fair value, resulting in an additional loss of ¥4,109 million ($53 million) which is also reported within Revenue—Other in the consolidated statements of operations.

There were no other material acquisition-related costs incurred in connection with this business combination.

The operating results of NLB and other companies acquired as a result of the Share Purchases have been included in these consolidated statements of operations from May 2011. As a result, revenues generated by NLB and these other companies which have been included in the consolidated statements of operations were ¥142,058 million ($1,844 million) and ¥98,822 million ($1,283million) for the six and three months ended September 30, 2011, respectively. In addition, a net loss of ¥100 million ($1 million) and net income of ¥803 million ($10 million) from NLB and other companies acquired as a result of the Share Purchases are included in the consolidated statements of operations for the six and three months ended September 30, 2011, respectively. Revenues and expenses arising from NLB and other companies that are acquired as a result of the Share Purchases are generally reported in Revenue—Other and Non-interest expenses—Other in the consolidated statements of operations.

F-59

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The following table provides a summary of the fair value of the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed, as of the date of the Share Purchase.


	Millions of yen			Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
Assets:
Cash and cash deposits	¥	78,634		$	1,021
Loans receivable⁽¹⁾		54,023			701
Receivables from other than customers		12,865			167
Office buildings, land, equipment and facilities		715,683			9,290
Intangible assets⁽²⁾		60,048			779
Assets other than above⁽³⁾		1,290,121			16,746

Total assets		2,211,374			28,704

Liabilities:
Short-term borrowings		82,800			1,075
Long-term borrowings		952,932			12,369
Liabilities other than above		748,889			9,720

Total liabilities		1,784,621			23,164
Equity attributable to NHI’s shareholders		120,962			1,570

Noncontrolling interests of NLB⁽⁴⁾		22,397			291

Noncontrolling interests attributable to other than shareholders of NLB⁽⁵⁾		283,394			3,679

Acquisition costs and fair value of previously held equity investments in NLB and other newly consolidated subsidiaries		75,999			986

Goodwill	¥	(44,963	)	$	(584	)

(1)	Valuation is based on the difference between the gross contractual amounts receivable of ¥54,131 million ($703 million) and the estimate of the contractual cash flows not expected to be collected of ¥108 million ($1 million).

(2)	Includes finite-lived intangible assets related to client contracts and lease agreements which are amortized based on a weighted-average amortization period of nine years with no estimated residual value.

(3)	Include real estate classified as held for sale.

(4)	Valuation is based on the acquisition cost of the Share Purchases.

(5)	Valuation is based on either the market value or the net asset value as of the date of acquisition.

The following selected (unaudited) pro-forma financial information presents revenue and net income (loss) amounts as if the acquisitions occurred on April 1, 2010.


	Millions of yen, except per share amounts					Translation into millions of U.S. dollars, except per share amounts
	Six months ended September 30
	2010		2011			2011
Total revenue	¥	873,122	¥	847,892		$	11,006
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	30,564	¥	(52,359	)	$	(680	)
Basic net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share		8.37		(14.44	)		(0.19	)
Diluted net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share		8.34		(14.44	)		(0.19	)

Based on the Share Exchange Agreement, 118 common shares of the company were allotted and delivered for each share of NLB, and NLB became a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura as of July 1, 2011. On the same day, Nomura issued 103,429,360 common shares. In addition, the common shares of NLB which Nomura acquired through the Share Exchange Agreement include the shares that had been held by one of Nomura’s subsidiaries, Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd., and the acquisition of those shares is accounted for as a transaction between entities under common control.

F-60

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

9. Other assets—Other / Other liabilities:

The following table sets forth Other assets—Other and Other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets by type.


	Millions of yen				Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
Other assets-Other:
Securities received as collateral	¥	43,624	¥	22,758	$	295
Goodwill and other intangible assets		116,834		160,929		2,089
Deferred tax assets		241,911		215,420		2,796
Investments in equity securities for other than operating purposes		11,915		131,295		1,704
Other⁽¹⁾		154,209		948,812		12,317

Total	¥	568,493	¥	1,479,214	$	19,201

Other liabilities:
Obligation to return securities received as collateral	¥	43,624	¥	22,758	$	295
Accrued income taxes		10,123		13,285		172
Other accrued expenses and provisions		404,048		318,793		4,138
Other⁽²⁾		94,521		616,465		8,002

Total	¥	552,316	¥	971,301	$	12,607

(1)	Includes real estate held for sale.

(2)

Includes the liabilities relating to the investment contracts which were underwritten by the insurance subsidiary. As of September 30, 2011, the amount of carrying values and estimated fair values are ¥287,944 million ($3,738 million) and ¥290,122 million ($3,766 million), respectively. The fair value is estimated by discounting future cash flow.

F-61

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

10. Earnings per share:

A reconciliation of the amounts and the numbers used in the basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) computations is as follows:


	Millions of yen except per share data presented in yen					Translation into millions of U.S. dollars except per share data presented in U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010		2011			2011
Basic—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	3,373	¥	(28,321	)	$	(368	)
Weighted average number of shares outstanding		3,651,306,836		3,627,116,186
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share	¥	0.92	¥	(7.81	)	$	(0.10	)

Diluted—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	3,370	¥	(28,326	)	$	(368	)
Weighted average number of shares outstanding		3,665,662,592		3,626,187,054
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share	¥	0.92	¥	(7.81	)	$	(0.10	)


	Millions of yen except per share data presented in yen					Translation into millions of U.S. dollars except per share data presented in U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010		2011			2011
Basic—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	1,051	¥	(46,092	)	$	(598	)
Weighted average number of shares outstanding		3,636,764,297		3,645,882,160
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share	¥	0.29	¥	(12.64	)	$	(0.16	)

Diluted—
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders	¥	1,048	¥	(46,096	)	$	(598	)
Weighted average number of shares outstanding		3,648,578,821		3,643,409,618
Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders per share	¥	0.29	¥	(12.65	)	$	(0.16	)

Net income (loss) attributable to NHI shareholders is adjusted to reflect the decline in Nomura’s equity share of earnings of affiliates for the six and three months ended September 30, 2010 and for the six and three months ended September 30, 2011, respectively, arising from options to purchase common shares issued by affiliates.

The weighted average number of shares used in the calculation of diluted EPS reflects the increase in potential common shares arising from stock-based compensation plans issued by the Company that would have minimal impact on EPS in the six months ended September 30, 2010. The weighted average number of shares used in the calculation of diluted EPS reflects the decrease in potential common shares arising from stock-based compensation plans issued by the Company that would have minimal impact on EPS in the six months ended September 30, 2011.

Antidilutive stock options to purchase 59,622,300 common shares and 70,336,500 common shares for the six and three months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, were not included in the computation of diluted EPS. Antidilutive stock options to purchase 103,395,500 common shares and 101,183,700 common shares for the six and three months ended September 30, 2011, respectively, were not included in the computation of diluted EPS.

On July 1, 2011, Nomura issued 103,429,360 common shares in accordance with NLB becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura. See Note 8, “Business combinations” for more information.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

11. Employee benefit plans:

Nomura provides various pension plans and other post-employment benefits which cover certain employees worldwide. In addition, Nomura provides health care benefits to certain active and retired employees through its Nomura Securities Health Insurance Society.

Net Periodic Benefit Cost

The net periodic benefit cost of the defined benefit plans includes the following components.

Japanese entities’ plans—


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Service cost	¥	4,001		¥	4,001		$	52
Interest cost		2,245			2,162			28
Expected return on plan assets		(1,592	)		(1,566	)		(20	)
Amortization of net actuarial losses		1,544			1,579			20
Amortization of prior service cost		(574	)		(573	)		(7	)

Net periodic benefit cost	¥	5,624		¥	5,603		$	73


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Service cost	¥	2,056		¥	2,011		$	26
Interest cost		1,123			1,081			14
Expected return on plan assets		(796	)		(783	)		(10	)
Amortization of net actuarial losses		772			790			10
Amortization of prior service cost		(287	)		(286	)		(3	)

Net periodic benefit cost	¥	2,868		¥	2,813		$	37

Nomura also recognized net periodic benefit cost of plans other than Japanese entities’ plans, which are not significant.

12. Income taxes:

For the six and three months ended September 30, 2010, the difference between the domestic statutory tax rate of approximately 41% and the effective tax rate of 82.3% and 91.0%, respectively, is mainly due to non-deductible expenses, different tax rates and changes in statutory tax rates applicable to income (loss) of foreign subsidiaries.

For the six months ended September 30, 2011, the difference between the domestic statutory tax rate of approximately 41% and the effective tax rate of negative 155.2% is mainly due to an increase in valuation allowance of foreign subsidiaries, whereas non-taxable revenue increased the effective tax rate. For the three months ended September 30, 2011, the difference between the domestic statutory tax rate of approximately 41% and the effective tax rate of 0.8% is mainly due to an increase in valuation allowance of foreign subsidiaries.

Subsequent event

In Japan, on November 30, 2011, the bill for reconstruction funding after the March 11 earthquake (the “Reconstruction Funding Bill”) and the bill for the remaining items of the 2011 tax reform (the “Tax Reform Bill”) were approved by the Diet. Under the Reconstruction Funding Bill, Special Reconstruction Corporate Tax will be imposed on companies, which will be calculated by multiplying the base corporation tax by 10% and will be effective for three fiscal years from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2015. Under the Tax Reform Bill, the corporate income tax rate will be reduced by 4.5%, effective from the fiscal year beginning on or after April 1, 2012. The new tax laws related to these bills were promulgated on December 2, 2011, and as a result, the domestic statutory tax rates will be approximately 38% for the next three fiscal years and approximately 36% thereafter.

The new domestic statutory tax rates for calculating the deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2011 will be 38% for those temporary differences expected to be realized or settled by March 31, 2015 and 36% for those after March 31, 2015. The impact of these changes is currently being evaluated.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

13. Commitments, contingencies and guarantees:

Commitments—

Credit and investment commitments

In connection with its banking and financing activities, Nomura provides commitments to extend credit which generally have fixed expiration dates. In connection with its investment banking activities, Nomura enters into agreements with clients under which Nomura commits to underwrite notes that may be issued by the clients. The outstanding commitments under these agreements are included in below commitments to extend credit.

Nomura has commitments to invest in various partnerships and other entities, primarily in connection with its merchant banking activities, and also has commitments to provide financing for investments related to these partnerships. The outstanding commitments under these agreements are included in commitments to invest in partnerships.

Certain consolidated VIEs which are engaged in the aircraft leasing business have commitments to purchase aircraft. The outstanding commitments under these agreements are included in commitments to purchase aircraft.

These commitments outstanding were as follows:


	Millions of yen				Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
Commitments to extend credit	¥	264,736	¥	256,927	$	3,335
Commitments to invest in partnerships		38,008		30,952		402
Commitments to purchase aircraft		77,928		60,162		781

As of September 30, 2011, these commitments had the following maturities:


	Millions of yen
			Years to Maturity
	Total contractual amount		Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		3 to 5 years		More than 5 years
Commitments to extend credit	¥	256,927	¥	59,122	¥	54,811	¥	135,715	¥	7,279
Commitments to invest in partnerships		30,952		253		22,373		630		7,696
Commitments to purchase aircraft		60,162		21,561		38,601		—		—

	Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
			Years to Maturity
	Total contractual amount		Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		3 to 5 years		More than 5 years
Commitments to extend credit	$	3,335	$	767	$	712	$	1,762	$	94
Commitments to invest in partnerships		402		3		291		8		100
Commitments to purchase aircraft		781		280		501		—		—

The contractual amounts of these commitments to extend credit represent the amounts at risk should the contracts be fully drawn upon, should the counterparties default, and assuming the value of any existing collateral becomes worthless. The total contractual amount of these commitments may not represent future cash requirements since the commitments may expire without being drawn upon. The credit risk associated with these commitments varies depending on the clients’ creditworthiness and the value of collateral held. Nomura evaluates each client’s creditworthiness on a case-by-case basis. The amount of collateral obtained, if deemed necessary by Nomura upon extension of credit, is based on credit evaluation of the counterparty.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Other commitments

The amounts of commitments to purchase real estate for sale and rental were nil as of March 31, 2011 and ¥158,043 million ($2,051 million) as of September 30, 2011. These included ¥86,275 million ($1,120 million) with maturities of less than 1 year and ¥71,768 million ($931 million) with maturities of 1 to 3 years.

Operating leases

The following table presents a schedule of future minimum rental payments under non-cancelable operating leases with initial or remaining terms exceeding one year:


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011			September 30, 2011			September 30, 2011
Total minimum lease payments	¥	88,215		¥	167,764		$	2,178
Less: Sublease rental income		(11,412	)		(11,107	)		(145	)

Net minimum lease payments	¥	76,803		¥	156,657		$	2,033

As of March 31, 2011, these minimum lease payments had the following maturity for payments:


	Millions of yen
	Total		Years of Payment
	Total		Less than 1 year		1 to 2 years		2 to 3 years		3 to 4 years		4 to 5 years		More than 5 years
Minimum lease payments	¥	88,215	¥	15,034	¥	14,146	¥	11,268	¥	9,282	¥	8,296	¥	30,189
As of September 30, 2011, these minimum lease payments had the following maturity for payments:

	Millions of yen
	Total		Years of Payment
	Total		Less than 1 year		1 to 2 years		2 to 3 years		3 to 4 years		4 to 5 years		More than 5 years
Minimum lease payments	¥	167,764	¥	20,543	¥	18,296	¥	15,415	¥	12,961	¥	11,703	¥	88,846

	Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Total		Years of Payment
	Total		Less than 1 year		1 to 2 years		2 to 3 years		3 to 4 years		4 to 5 years		More than 5 years
Minimum lease payments	$	2,178	$	267	$	238	$	200	$	168	$	152	$	1,153

Certain leases contain renewal options or escalation clauses providing for increased rental payments based upon maintenance, utilities and tax increases.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Contingencies—

Investigations, lawsuits and other legal proceedings

In the normal course of business as a global financial services entity, Nomura is involved in investigations, lawsuits and other legal proceedings and, as a result, may suffer economic loss from any fine, penalties or damages awarded against Nomura, any settlements Nomura chooses to make to resolve a matter, and legal and other advisory costs incurred to support and formulate a defense.

In accordance with ASC 450 “Contingencies”, Nomura recognizes a liability for this risk of loss arising on each individual matter when an estimated economic loss is probable and the amount of such loss can be reasonably estimated. The amount recognized as a liability is reviewed at least quarterly and is revised when further information becomes available.

The ability to predict the outcome of these actions and proceedings is inherently difficult, particularly where claimants are seeking substantial or indeterminate damages, where investigations and legal proceedings are at an early stage, where the matters present novel legal theories or involve a large number of parties, or which take place in foreign jurisdictions with complex or unclear laws. Nomura cannot therefore estimate with confidence losses or ranges of losses for actions and proceedings where there is only a reasonably possible risk of loss.

Nomura believes that, based on current information available as of the date of these consolidated financial statements, the ultimate resolution of these actions and proceedings will not be material to Nomura’s financial condition. However, an adverse outcome in certain of these matters could have a material adverse effect on the consolidated results of operations or cash flows in a particular quarter or annual period.

The most significant actions and proceedings against Nomura are summarized below. Where possible, the amount of the claim of the counterparty is disclosed which provides an indication of the maximum loss we may incur.

In January 2008, Nomura International plc (“NIP”) was served with a tax notice issued by the tax authorities in Pescara, Italy alleging breaches by NIP of the U.K.-Italy Double Taxation Treaty of 1998 (the “Tax Notice”). The alleged breaches relate to payments to NIP of tax credits on dividends on Italian shares. The Tax Notice not only denies certain payments to which NIP claims to be entitled but is also seeking reimbursement of EUR 33.8 million, including interest, already refunded. In March 2008, NIP lodged an appeal against the Tax Notice rejecting the Italian tax authorities’ demands for reimbursement and in November 2009, a decision was issued by the Pescara Tax Court in favor of the Italian Tax Authorities. NIP is vigorously challenging this decision.

In April 2010, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc. (collectively, “Lehman Inc.”) commenced proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York objecting to the proofs of claims filed by Nomura’s subsidiaries, Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (“NSC”), NIP and Nomura Global Financial Products Inc. in respect of swaps and other derivative transactions in the total amount of approximately $1 billion; and in the case of NSC and NIP, Lehman Inc. is seeking to recover damages.

Fairfield Sentry Ltd. and Fairfield Sigma Ltd. (collectively, the “Fairfield Funds”), which are now in liquidation and were feeder funds to Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (under the liquidation with its trustee’s on-going recovery procedure pursuant to the Securities Investor Protection Act in the U.S. since December 2008), have filed lawsuits in the Supreme Court of the State of New York and U.S. Bankruptcy Court against a number of investors, including NIP, seeking to recover redemption payments that the Fairfield Funds allege, inter alia, were mistakenly made. In a complaint dated October 5, 2010, the amount claimed against NIP was approximately $34 million plus interest. The claim against NIP is proceeding in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

On November 11, 2010, the High Court in London ruled in favor of NIP and Nomura Bank International Plc (“NBI”) dismissing claims made by WestLB AG (“WestLB”) against them. WestLB first served the proceedings on NIP and NBI in April 2009, claiming that under the terms of a note issued by NBI and which matured in October 2008, WestLB was entitled to receive approximately $22 million, which it claimed to be the value of a fund of shares referable to the NBI note. WestLB sought permission to appeal and this was granted by the Court of Appeal on March 7, 2011.

On March 1, 2011, PT Bank Mutiara Tbk. (“Bank Mutiara”) commenced proceedings in the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich against a special purpose company (“SPC”) established at the request of NIP. These are proceedings to challenge the SPC’s rights over approximately $156 million in an account held in Switzerland. The SPC has a security interest over the money pursuant to a loan facility with a third party. The SPC does not believe that Bank Mutiara has any enforceable security interest over the funds and is seeking release of the monies.

In April 2011, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (“FHLB-Boston”) commenced proceedings in the Superior Court of Massachusetts against numerous sponsors, issuers and underwriters of residential mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”), and their controlling persons, including certain of Nomura’s U.S. subsidiaries. The action alleges that FHLB-Boston purchased residential MBS issued by a Nomura U.S. subsidiary for which the offering materials contained untrue statements or omitted material facts concerning the underwriting standards used by the original lenders and the characteristics of the loans underlying the securities. FHLB-Boston seeks rescission of its purchases or compensatory damages pursuant to state law. FHLB-Boston alleges that it purchased certificates in four offerings issued by a Nomura U.S. subsidiary but does not specify the amount of its purchases or the amount of any alleged losses. Due to the lack of information at this early stage of the litigation and the uncertainties involved, including lack of information concerning the alleged purchases by the plaintiff, and uncertainties concerning significant legal issues that may be dispositive, Nomura cannot provide an estimate of exposure to loss related to this matter at this time.

In July 2011, the National Credit Union Administration Board (“NCUA”) commenced proceedings in the United States District Court for the Central District of California as liquidating agent of Western Corporate Federal Credit Union (“Wescorp”) against various sponsors, issuers and underwriters of residential MBS purchased by Wescorp. The complaint alleges that Wescorp purchased residential MBS issued by certain of Nomura’s U.S. subsidiaries, among others, for which the offering materials contained untrue statements or omitted material facts concerning the underwriting standards used by the original lenders. The complaint alleges that Wescorp purchased certificates in two offerings in which a Nomura U.S. subsidiary was the issuer in the original principal amount of approximately $83 million and seeks rescission of its purchases or compensatory damages. Due to the lack of information at this early stage of the litigation and the uncertainties involved, Nomura cannot provide an estimate of exposure to loss related to this matter at this time.

In September 2011, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”), as conservator for the government sponsored enterprises, Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (the “GSEs”), commenced proceedings in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against numerous sponsors, issuers and underwriters of residential MBS, and their controlling persons, including certain of Nomura’s U.S. subsidiaries. The action alleges that the GSEs purchased residential MBS issued by certain Nomura subsidiaries in the U.S. for which the offering materials contained untrue statements or omitted material facts concerning the underwriting standards used by the original lenders and the characteristics of the loans underlying the securities. FHFA alleges that the GSEs purchased certificates in seven offerings in which a Nomura U.S. subsidiary was the issuer in the original principal amount of approximately $2,046 million and seeks rescission of its purchases or compensatory damages. Due to the lack of information at this early stage of the litigation and the uncertainties involved, Nomura cannot provide an estimate of exposure to loss related to this matter at this time.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Subsequent events

In October 2011, the NCUA commenced proceedings in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas as liquidating agent of U.S. Central Federal Credit Union (“U.S. Central”) against various sponsors, issuers and underwriters of residential MBS purchased by U.S. Central, including a U.S. subsidiary of Nomura. The complaint alleges that U.S. Central purchased residential MBS issued by the subsidiary, among others, for which the offering materials contained untrue statements or omitted material facts concerning the underwriting standards used by the original lenders. The complaint against the Nomura U.S. subsidiary alleges that U.S. Central purchased certificates in one offering in which the subsidiary was the issuer in the original principal amount of approximately $50 million and seeks rescission of its purchases or compensatory damages. Due to the lack of information at this early stage of the litigation and the uncertainties involved, Nomura cannot provide an estimate of exposure to loss related to this matter at this time.

In November 2011, NIP was served with a claim filed by the trustee (the “Madoff Trustee”) appointed for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (“BLMIS”) and Bernard L. Madoff in the United States Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York. This is a clawback action similar to claims filed by the Madoff Trustee against numerous other institutions. The Madoff Trustee alleges that NIP received redemptions from the BLMIS feeder fund, Harley International (Cayman) Limited in the six years prior to December 11, 2008 (the date proceedings were commenced against BLMIS) and that these are avoidable and recoverable under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and New York law. The amount that the Madoff Trustee is seeking to recover from NIP is approximately $21 million.

Nomura supports the position of Nomura’s subsidiaries in each of these claims.

Certain Mortgage-Related Contingencies in the U.S.

Certain of Nomura’s subsidiaries in the U.S. securitized mortgage loans in the form of MBS. These subsidiaries did not generally originate mortgage loans, but purchased mortgage loans from third-party loan originators (the “originators”). In connection with such purchases, these subsidiaries received loan level representations from the originators. Certain of the MBS issued by the subsidiaries were structured with credit protection provided to specified classes of certificates by monoline insurers. In connection with the securitizations, the relevant subsidiaries provided loan level representations and warranties of the type generally described below, which mirror the representations the subsidiaries received from the originators.

The loan level representations made in connection with the securitization of mortgage loans were generally detailed representations applicable to each loan and addressed characteristics of the borrowers and properties. The representations included, but were not limited to, information concerning the borrower’s credit status, the loan-to-value ratio, the owner occupancy status of the property, the lien position, the fact that the loan was originated in accordance with the originator’s guidelines, and the fact that the loan was originated in compliance with applicable laws.

The relevant subsidiaries have received claims demanding the repurchase of certain loans from trustees of various securitization trusts, which the subsidiaries believe were made at the instance of one or more investors, and from certificate insurers. Each claim received has been reviewed, and the subsidiaries have contested those claims believed to be without merit or have agreed to repurchase certain loans (or to otherwise compensate the issuing trust) for those claims that the subsidiaries have determined to have merit.

Nomura cannot provide an estimate of its exposure to the existing unresolved demands or the likelihood of additional breach of representation claims at this time due to the uncertainties involved. Specifically, macroeconomic conditions, including the unemployment rate, affect the rate of defaults in residential mortgages. Further, Nomura’s exposure with respect to such claims is influenced by the particular originators which underwrote the loans at issue, the particular representations made (which were not uniform across all securitizations), and fluctuations in values in the residential real estate markets which affect the loss severity for defaulting loans. As at November 30, 2011, the subsidiaries have received loan repurchase claims of $1,449 million that are unresolved.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Guarantees—

ASC 460 “Guarantees” specifies the disclosures to be made in regards to obligations under certain issued guarantees and requires a liability to be recognized for the fair value of a guarantee obligation at inception.

In the normal course of business, Nomura enters into various guarantee arrangements with counterparties in the form of standby letters of credit and other guarantees, which generally have a fixed expiration date.

In addition, Nomura enters into certain derivative contracts that meet the accounting definition of a guarantee, namely derivative contracts that contingently require a guarantor to make payment to a guaranteed party based on changes in an underlying that relate to an asset, liability or equity security held by a guaranteed party. Since Nomura does not track whether its clients enter into these derivative contracts for speculative or hedging purposes, Nomura has disclosed below information about derivative contracts that could meet the accounting definition of guarantees.

For information about the maximum potential amount of future payments that Nomura could be required to make under certain derivatives, the notional amount of contracts has been disclosed. However, the maximum potential payout for certain derivative contracts, such as written interest rate caps and written currency options, cannot be estimated, as increases in interest or foreign exchange rates in the future could be theoretically unlimited.

Nomura records all derivative contracts at fair value on its consolidated balance sheets. Nomura believes the notional amounts generally overstate its risk exposure. Since the derivative contracts are accounted for at fair value, carrying value is considered the best indication of payment and performance risk for individual contracts.

The following table presents information on Nomura’s derivative contracts that could meet the accounting definition of a guarantee and certain other guarantees:


	Millions of yen								Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011				September 30, 2011				September 30, 2011
	Carrying value		Maximum Potential Payout/ Notional Total		Carrying value		Maximum Potential Payout/ Notional Total		Carrying value		Maximum Potential Payout/ Notional Total
Derivative contracts⁽¹⁾	¥	3,539,472	¥	101,555,634	¥	4,354,200	¥	105,269,019	$	56,519	$	1,366,420
Standby letters of credit and other guarantees⁽²⁾	¥	267	¥	8,512	¥	236	¥	18,091	$	3	$	235

(1)	Credit derivatives are disclosed in Note 4. “Derivative instruments and hedging activities” and are excluded from “Derivative contracts”.

(2)	Collateral held in connection with “Standby letters of credit and other guarantees” as of March 31, 2011 is ¥6,761 million and as of September 30, 2011 is ¥5,946 million ($77 million).

The following table presents maturity information on Nomura’s derivative contracts that could meet the definition of a guarantee and certain other guarantees as of September 30, 2011:


	Millions of yen
	Carrying value		Maximum Potential Payout/Notional
			Total		Years to Maturity
			Total		Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		3 to 5 years		More than 5 years
Derivative contracts	¥	4,354,200	¥	105,269,019	¥	39,720,072	¥	20,796,052	¥	12,235,463	¥	32,517,432
Standby letters of credit and other guarantees		236		18,091		9,522		309		207		8,053

	Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Carrying value		Maximum Potential Payout/Notional
			Total		Years to Maturity
			Total		Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		3 to 5 years		More than 5 years
Derivative contracts	$	56,519	$	1,366,420	$	515,577	$	269,938	$	158,820	$	422,085
Standby letters of credit and other guarantees		3		235		123		4		3		105

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

14. Segment and geographic information:

Operating segments—

Nomura’s operating management and management reporting are prepared based on the Retail, the Asset Management and the Wholesale segments. Nomura structures its business segments based upon the nature of main products and services, its client base and its management structure.

The accounting policies for segment information materially follow U.S. GAAP, except for the impact of unrealized gains (losses) on long-term investments in equity securities held for operating purposes, which under U.S. GAAP is included in Income (loss) before income taxes, is excluded from segment information.

Revenues and expenses directly associated with each business segment are included in the operating results of each respective segment. Revenues and expenses that are not directly attributable to a particular segment are allocated to each respective business segment or included in “Other”, based upon Nomura’s allocation methodologies as used by management to assess each segment’s performance.

Business segments’ results are shown in the following tables. Net interest revenue is disclosed because management views interest revenue net of interest expense for its operating decisions. Business segments’ information on total assets is not disclosed because management does not utilize such information for its operating decisions and therefore, it is not reported to management. Nomura Bank (Luxembourg) S.A. in the Asset Management segment was integrated into “Other” during the six months ended September 30, 2011. In accordance with this integration, certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.


	Millions of yen
	Retail		Asset Management		Wholesale			Other (Incl. elimination)			Total
Six months ended September 30, 2010
Non-interest revenue	¥	197,336	¥	29,697	¥	227,883		¥	49,366		¥	504,282
Net interest revenue		1,376		2,262		44,131			(1,039	)		46,730

Net revenue		198,712		31,959		272,014			48,327			551,012
Non-interest expenses		138,191		23,793		305,519			39,876			507,379

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	60,521	¥	8,166	¥	(33,505	)	¥	8,451		¥	43,633


	Millions of yen
	Retail		Asset Management		Wholesale			Other (Incl. elimination)			Total
Six months ended September 30, 2011
Non-interest revenue	¥	176,685	¥	33,110	¥	152,150		¥	206,176		¥	568,121
Net interest revenue		1,484		1,684		68,416			(4,112	)		67,472

Net revenue		178,169		34,794		220,566			202,064			635,593
Non-interest expenses		145,426		22,635		308,517			165,650			642,228

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	32,743	¥	12,159	¥	(87,951	)	¥	36,414		¥	(6,635	)


	Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Retail		Asset Management		Wholesale			Other (Incl. elimination)			Total
Six months ended September 30, 2011
Non-interest revenue	$	2,293	$	430	$	1,975		$	2,676		$	7,374
Net interest revenue		19		22		888			(53	)		876

Net revenue		2,312		452		2,863			2,623			8,250
Non-interest expenses		1,887		294		4,005			2,150			8,336

Income (loss) before income taxes	$	425	$	158	$	(1,142	)	$	473		$	(86	)

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen
	Retail		Asset Management			Wholesale			Other (Incl. elimination)			Total
Three months ended September 30, 2010
Non-interest revenue	¥	87,200	¥	16,005		¥	139,094		¥	13,131		¥	255,430
Net interest revenue		553		186			24,311			115			25,165

Net revenue		87,753		16,191			163,405			13,246			280,595
Non-interest expenses		64,975		12,022			155,764			21,264			254,025

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	22,778	¥	4,169		¥	7,641		¥	(8,018	)	¥	26,570


	Millions of yen
	Retail		Asset Management			Wholesale			Other (Incl. elimination)			Total
Three months ended September 30, 2011
Non-interest revenue	¥	83,044	¥	16,012		¥	43,022		¥	130,842		¥	272,920
Net interest revenue		936		(61	)		36,298			(6,143	)		31,030

Net revenue		83,980		15,951			79,320			124,699			303,950
Non-interest expenses		73,250		11,238			152,415			109,318			346,221

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	10,730	¥	4,713		¥	(73,095	)	¥	15,381		¥	(42,271	)


	Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Retail		Asset Management			Wholesale			Other (Incl. elimination)			Total
Three months ended September 30, 2011
Non-interest revenue	$	1,078	$	208		$	559		$	1,698		$	3,543
Net interest revenue		12		(1	)		471			(79	)		403

Net revenue		1,090		207			1,030			1,619			3,946
Non-interest expenses		951		146			1,978			1,419			4,494

Income (loss) before income taxes	$	139	$	61		$	(948	)	$	200		$	(548	)

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Transactions between operating segments are recorded within segment results on commercial terms and conditions and are eliminated in the “Other” column.

The following table presents the major components of income (loss) before income taxes in “Other.”


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Net gain (loss) related to economic hedging transactions	¥	(791	)	¥	2,716		$	35
Realized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes		(463	)		498			6
Equity in earnings of affiliates		2,356			5,445			71
Corporate items⁽¹⁾		3,026			4,341			57
Other⁽²⁾		4,323			23,414			304

Total	¥	8,451		¥	36,414		$	473


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Net gain (loss) related to economic hedging transactions	¥	(6,019	)	¥	4,221		$	55
Realized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes		(713	)		(183	)		(2	)
Equity in earnings of affiliates		1,993			1,970			26
Corporate items		5,512			(8,442	)		(110	)
Other⁽²⁾		(8,791	)		17,815			231

Total	¥	(8,018	)	¥	15,381		$	200

(1)	Includes the gain due to the business combination with NLB in Corporate items for the six months ended September 30, 2011.

(2)	Includes the impact of Nomura’s own creditworthiness in certain financial liabilities for which the fair value option has been elected in accordance with ASC 825, and the impact of its own creditworthiness on derivative liabilities.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

The table below presents reconciliation of the combined business segments’ results included in the preceding table to Nomura’s reported net revenue, non-interest expenses and income (loss) before income taxes in the consolidated statements of operations.


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Net revenue	¥	551,012		¥	635,593		$	8,250
Unrealized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes		(15,565	)		(3,639	)		(47	)

Consolidated net revenue	¥	535,447		¥	631,954		$	8,203

Non-interest expenses	¥	507,379		¥	642,228		$	8,336
Unrealized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes		—			—			—

Consolidated non-interest expenses	¥	507,379		¥	642,228		$	8,336

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	43,633		¥	(6,635	)	$	(86	)
Unrealized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes		(15,565	)		(3,639	)		(47	)

Consolidated income (loss) before income taxes	¥	28,068		¥	(10,274	)	$	(133	)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Net revenue	¥	280,595		¥	303,950		$	3,946
Unrealized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes		(4,972	)		(2,361	)		(31	)

Consolidated net revenue	¥	275,623		¥	301,589		$	3,915

Non-interest expenses	¥	254,025		¥	346,221		$	4,494
Unrealized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes		—			—			—

Consolidated non-interest expenses	¥	254,025		¥	346,221		$	4,494

Income (loss) before income taxes	¥	26,570		¥	(42,271	)	$	(548	)
Unrealized gain (loss) on investments in equity securities held for operating purposes		(4,972	)		(2,361	)		(31	)

Consolidated income (loss) before income taxes	¥	21,598		¥	(44,632	)	$	(579	)

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)

Geographic information—

Nomura’s identifiable assets, revenues and expenses are generally allocated based on the country of domicile of the legal entity providing the service. However, because of the integration of the global capital markets and the corresponding global nature of Nomura’s activities and services, it is not always possible to make a precise separation by location. As a result, various assumptions, which are consistent among years, have been made in presenting the following geographic data.

The table below presents a geographic allocation of net revenue and income (loss) before income taxes from operations by geographic areas, and long-lived assets associated with Nomura’s operations. Net revenue in “Americas” and “Europe” substantially represents Nomura’s operations in the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively. Net revenue and long-lived assets have been allocated based on transactions with external customers while income (loss) before income taxes have been allocated based on the inclusion of intersegment transactions.


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Six months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Net revenue⁽¹⁾:
Americas	¥	74,856		¥	60,609		$	787
Europe		120,899			94,520			1,227
Asia and Oceania		22,197			16,224			210

Subtotal		217,952			171,353			2,224
Japan		317,495			460,601			5,979

Consolidated	¥	535,447		¥	631,954		$	8,203

Income (loss) before income taxes:
Americas	¥	(2,411	)	¥	(27,014	)	$	(351	)
Europe		(30,127	)		(47,324	)		(614	)
Asia and Oceania		(10,192	)		(10,831	)		(141	)

Subtotal		(42,730	)		(85,169	)		(1,106	)
Japan		70,798			74,895			973

Consolidated	¥	28,068		¥	(10,274	)	$	(133	)


	Millions of yen						Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	Three months ended September 30
	2010			2011			2011
Net revenue⁽¹⁾:
Americas	¥	43,142		¥	23,903		$	310
Europe		61,350			45,449			590
Asia and Oceania		13,895			6,392			83

Subtotal		118,387			75,744			983
Japan		157,236			225,845			2,932

Consolidated	¥	275,623		¥	301,589		$	3,915

Income (loss) before income taxes:
Americas	¥	4,358		¥	(27,515	)	$	(357	)
Europe		(13,674	)		(15,595	)		(202	)
Asia and Oceania		(4,899	)		(9,308	)		(121	)

Subtotal		(14,215	)		(52,418	)		(680	)
Japan		35,813			7,786			101

Consolidated	¥	21,598		¥	(44,632	)	$	(579	)

(1)	There is no revenue derived from transactions with a single major external customer.

F-73

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued) (UNAUDITED)


	Millions of yen				Translation into millions of U.S. dollars
	March 31, 2011		September 30, 2011		September 30, 2011
Long-lived assets:
Americas	¥	91,295	¥	85,549	$	1,110
Europe		115,352		103,040		1,338
Asia and Oceania		31,642		28,954		376

Subtotal		238,289		217,543		2,824
Japan		270,945		998,481		12,960

Consolidated	¥	509,234	¥	1,216,024	$	15,784

15. Supplementary subsidiary guarantee information required under SEC rules:

The Company provides several guarantees of borrowings of its subsidiaries. The Company has fully and unconditionally guaranteed the securities issued or to be issued by Nomura America Finance LLC, which is an indirect, wholly owned finance subsidiary of the Company.

16. Subsequent events:

Restructuring initiatives

In light of an increasing sense of uncertainty associated with market conditions and the global economy from various unstable factors including the European sovereign debt crisis, Nomura has undertaken various restructuring initiatives to focus on accretive businesses and growth regions. These initiatives are described below.

In November 2011, Nomura announced a series of restructuring initiatives designed to improve profitability and lower its breakeven point through cost reductions. These restructuring initiatives primarily focus on reducing personnel expenses within the Wholesale Division. Key activities under the plan also include reduction of non-personnel expenses in the Retail and Asset Management Divisions. Activities under this restructuring plan have been initiated since the end of November 2011. The expected total pre-tax charges arising from these restructuring initiatives are currently under evaluation.

Disposal of a private equity investment

On November 30, 2011, Nomura Principal Finance Co., Ltd. (“NPF”), a wholly owned investment company subsidiary within Nomura, and NPF Harmony Investment Limited Partnership (“Harmony”), a Japanese investment limited partnership and investee of NPF, closed an agreement for the sale of 410,480 outstanding common shares of Skylark Co., Ltd. (comprising 220,442 shares representing 41.76% held by NPF and 190,038 shares representing 36.00% held by Harmony) for approximately ¥100 billion and 20,000 outstanding preferred shares (entirely held by NPF) for approximately ¥28 billion by transferring those shares to a Japanese corporation set up by Bain Capital Partners, LLC. The difference between the sales price and carrying value which is based on the theoretical exit price may also be due to the characteristics of private equity investments which generally command a premium beyond the theoretical value. The carrying value of the Skylark shares as of September 30, 2011 was significantly lower than the sales prices contained in the stock purchase agreement, resulting in a gain to be recognized in the third quarter. The carrying value as of September 30, 2011 was evaluated based on Nomura’s internal valuation model and recognized uncertainties resulting from the restaurant business environment.

F-74

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors

Nomura Holdings, Inc.

We have reviewed the consolidated balance sheet of Nomura Holdings, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of September 30, 2011, and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income for the three-month and six-month periods ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, and the consolidated statements of changes in equity and cash flows for the six-month periods ended September 30, 2011 and 2010. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.

We conducted our review in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.

Based on our review, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the consolidated financial statements referred to above for them to be in conformity with US generally accepted accounting principles.

We have previously audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheet of Nomura Holdings, Inc. and subsidiaries as of March 31, 2011, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in equity, comprehensive income, and cash flows for the year then ended (not presented herein) and in our report dated June 30, 2011 we expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements. In our opinion, the information set forth in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2011, is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the consolidated balance sheet from which it has been derived.

/s/ Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC

Tokyo, Japan

December 28, 2011

F-75

Exhibit 15

December 28, 2011

The Board of Directors

Nomura Holdings, Inc.

We are aware of the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements (Form F-3 No. 333-165049 and No.333-169682 and Form S-8 No. 333-134590, No. 333-135430, No. 333-141988, No. 333-144112, No. 333-150267, No. 333-158344 No. 333-165925 and No. 333-173244) and related Prospectus of Nomura Holdings, Inc. of our report dated December 28, 2011 relating to the unaudited consolidated interim financial statements of Nomura Holdings, Inc. and subsidiaries as of September 30, 2011, and for the quarter ended September 30, 2011 that are included in its Form 6-K dated December 28, 2011.

/s/ Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC