Yumi Yamamoto-Tyrrell

Nippon Investment Bespoke Research UK Ltd. provides MIFID2 compliant "pull" services in the Japanese equity universe. The private company is based in London, UK. The British company offers Japanese equities investment research services for fund managers and Japanese listed companies. The company creates custom-made research reports for individual stocks based on client requests. The company was founded in 2014, and Yumi Yamamoto-Tyrrell has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

Part of Nomura Holdings, Inc., Nomura International Ltd. operates a holding Japanese company with interests in financial services businesses. The CEO of the company is Felix Andreas Weber.

BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd. (BofA Securities Japan) is the wholly-owned Japanese brokerage subsidiary of Merrill Lynch International, Inc., which is ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Founded in 1998, the firm was formerly known as Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd. (MLJS) and changed their name to BofA Securities Co., Ltd. in line with grobal re-branding from BofA Merrill Lynch to BofA in 2020. They subsequently became BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Tokyo, BofA Securities Japan provides stock and bond trading, capital markets, investment banking and other advisory services to corporate clients, financial institutions and government agencies.