Description of Main Businesses

Mizuho Securities is responsive to the diverse needs of its clients whether they are Japanese individuals or institutional investors based in Japan and overseas, non-financial companies, financial institutions, or public corporations for equities, bonds, and other securities.

Providing services based on client perspectives by acutely identifying needs

For individual clients, we market equities, bonds, investment trusts, and insurance, along with such financial services as wrap accounts. After carefully identifying the risk tolerance and investment aims of each of our clients, we also offer them cutting-edge financial products, such as foreign stocks, foreign currency bonds, structured bonds, and derivative instruments. We have two trading courses, “the three-channel support course” and “the direct course” (online trading), aimed at meeting the needs of individual investors. Clients are able to select the course that best suits how they trade and invest.

Offering high-quality securities solutions as the best partner for corporate clients

For our institutional clients, we devise and supply optimal solutions that take into account their defining business attributes. In investment banking, our range of services encompasses everything from equity and bond underwriting, support for share offerings, and investor relations (IR) consulting to an assortment of financial and capital strategy advisory services, M&A advisory, and structured finance. We also offer comprehensive support to our clients in devising management strategies and raising funds.