FAQ about management

Making the key words of "Fair & Positive" the cornerstones of its philosophy, Mizuho Securities seeks to offer the best professional services that are chosen by clients at all times and contribute to sustainable development of the society as a responsible player in the capital markets, by drawing on its leading-edge financial expertises and advanced product development capabilities. We integrate the strengths of our domestic sales business, global investment banking business, and global markets business to deliver best-in-class professional services that ensure our clients will constantly choose to come back to us.

Domestic sales

Targeting chiefly individuals in Japan, this business focuses on offering our clients the optimal suite of products and services based on the investment goals and risk tolerance of each client.

Global investment banking

Mizuho Securities actively supports the diverse needs of its institutional clients, ranging from domestic and overseas corporations and financial institutions to state-run organizations, in drawing up and implementing business and management strategies and financing.

Global markets

Mizuho Securities actively supports its institutional clients, ranging from domestic and overseas corporations and financial institutions to state-run organizations, by offering various marketable securities, high-caliber asset management products and services that meet their diverse needs.

• Description of Main Businesses

Mizuho Securities was created through the merger of the former Mizuho Securities and the former Shinko Securities. We believe our competitive strengths lie in the following areas: the talent and devotion of our people, which come from diverse backgrounds; our solid customer base and nationwide network; our product development and solution formulation capabilities, which draw on our leading-edge financial technologies; our strong research capabilities, as evidenced by the consistently high rankings of our research teams; our strong marketing capabilities, which are backed by high-caliber consulting know-know; and the Mizuho Financial Group's global network.

• Our Strengths

Our aim is to become the top-ranked global investment bank. To attain this aim, we are quickly developing a business model that achieves the following.

• Derive substantial synergies from combining former Mizuho Securities' strong investment banking track record in underwriting, M&A advisory, and securitization with former Shinko Securities' solid sales foundation across the full scope of securities services.
• Further bolster the expertise, financial expertise, advanced product development capabilities, and marketing know-how of each company and adapting these strengths to enable Mizuho Securities to rapidly and precisely meet the increasingly global, diverse, and sophisticated needs of our clients.
• Work closely with Mizuho Corporate Bank to extend our investment banking franchise globally.

We believe our ability to respond swiftly to changes in our operating environment, make the right decisions in a timely manner, and to tackle challenges as an organization hold the key to our future growth as a company. We are working to accelerate our management processes, achieve transparency in our corporate behavior, and build a management model that allows for an appropriate level of supervision and monitoring. At the same time, we seek to strengthen corporate governance at Mizuho Securities by disclosing information to diverse stakeholders and by enhancing and strengthening accountability across our operations.

• Corporate Governance
• Board of Directors

We regard the fair, consistent, timely and appropriate disclosure of information aimed at facilitating an accurate evaluation of our standing and performance by our many clients, shareholders, and investors in Japan and overseas to be one of our most important management priorities. This is because we seek to be rated highly by our shareholders and the markets for our proactive disclosure and to gain the confidence and trust of the general public as one of Japan's top securities firms. For this reason, we strictly observe all domestic and overseas regulations concerning disclosure as well as the disclosure-related rules and regulations of securities exchanges as we continue to work to build and operate a well-balanced system of information disclosure.

Mizuho Securities is committed to contributing to the realization of a better society and to playing a role in continuing to move the development of society forward. In our core businesses of securities and investment banking, we contribute to the development of sound capital markets by making fairness and sincerity guiding principles in how we do business. Among the social responsibility programs Mizuho Securities is advancing are a series of financial education lectures through collaboration with educational institutions and support of environmental conservation activities through direct finance.

• CSR Actions

In Japanese, "mizuho" means "a fresh ear of rice," and the phrase "mizuho country" - meaning "fruitful country" - is used to refer poetically to Japan. The name "Mizuho" expresses commitment of Mizuho Securities and the Mizuho Financial Group, as top-ranked Japanese financial institutions in global markets, to offer highly fruitful financial products and services to all of its customers, both in Japan and abroad. This word, which evokes a sense of freshness, is well suited to a new corporate culture, and we hope to make a familiar word for our many clients and stakeholders.