Nomura CEO’s Honeymoon Ends With $2 Billion Archegos Debacle
- Shares plunged after firm warned of loss tied to U.S. client
- Top management have to take responsibility, Jefferies says
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Nomura Holdings Inc.’s chief executive officer was having a bumper inaugural year in charge -- until a U.S. family office spoiled the party.
Just days before Kentaro Okuda’s first anniversary as head of Japan’s biggest brokerage, the company warned of a “significant” loss from an unnamed U.S. client. That’s tied to the massive unwinding of leveraged bets by Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management, according to people familiar with the matter.