Nomura Investment Bank to Hire 600 Finance Jobs

Nomura Holdings investment bank, based in Tokyo (above) plans to hire 600 finance executives to double its U.S. workforce by March 2010.

Japanese investment bank Nomura said today it plans to double its headcount in the U.S. from 600 to 1,200 employees by March, according to the Financial Times.

Nomura is the Tokyo-based investment bank that purchased the Asian and European assets of Lehman Brothers. The company has already hired 300 U.S. based employees since January, according to the FT article.

“We want to make sure that we have got sufficient business and people so that we can truly have a global offering for clients,” said the company.

Some financial analysts question “whether it is the right time to enter the US market,” but the smalle U.S. hiring spree will be welcome news to investment-banking job seekers in New York. At the time of posting, the careers site of Nomura America has one featured job opening listed for a Vice President of Financial Products.

(Nomura headquarters, Tokyo, by Lombroso via WikiPedia, GNU Free Documentation License)

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