Nomura appoints EMEA Fixed Income heads

by Richard Kilner

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Nomura Holdings, Inc has today announced the new heads of Fixed Income in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.

The EMEA heads of Fixed Income will be Georges Assi and Kieran Higgins, with the pair reporting both to global head of Fixed Income Zenji Nakamura and chief executive of Acquired Businesses in the region Sadeq Sayeed.

Assi and Higgins previously worked together as co-heads of Fixed Income at Lehman Brothers, prior to joining Nomura Holdings.

In their new role the duo will collaborate closely with their opposite numbers in Tokyo, and Thomas Siegmund and Jai Rajpal, (the heads of Fixed Income for Non-Japan Asia) and Sotaro Kato and Dean Chamberlain (who lead Fixed Income in the Americas).