Mizuho Hires Ex-Nomura Executive Agemura to Head Global Markets

Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mizuho Securities Co., a unit of Japan’s third-largest banking group, hired Yasuo Agemura from Nomura Holdings Inc. to head its global markets business.

Agemura, 57, former head of global markets at Nomura, became managing executive officer and co-head of global research this month, the brokerage said in a statement on its website on Sept. 30.

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