NRI's Financial Markets Panel Partners with Chinese Think Tank to
Conduct Asia Financial Markets Roundtable
- Meeting brought together Japanese and Chinese experts to discuss policy in financial markets

Tokyo – 25 June 2012 – Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI, TYO: 4307), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, today announced that its Financial Markets Panel and the China Finance 40 Forum (CF40), a non-governmental and not-for-profit research institution, held their first joint roundtable on June 24, 2012, in Beijing.

The meeting brought together experts, including policy makers, academic economists and business practitioners, to provide insight on policy making in the financial markets space in China and Japan.

"The Japanese economy has matured and its policy makers are looking for ways to reach stable growth, while the Chinese economy is developing rapidly and liberating various financial policies," said Tetsuya Inoue, Organizer of Financial Markets Panel, NRI. "Sharing both Japan's and China's professional point of view is very meaningful for both countries' policy formation."

"China and Japan are both important countries for sound and resilient financial markets growth in Asia," said Inoue. "This joint roundtable provides an important opportunity for discussing the financial markets, as they are still recovering from the global financial crisis. There are numerous projects by the government and private sector between China and Japan to provide solutions for challenges within the financial markets.
We hope the discussion at this roundtable series will play an important role in these initiatives by providing insight for policy makers and business practitioners, as well as strengthening mutual relationships."

NRI will release the contents of this roundtable discussion, and future events, on the company Website.

[About NRI]

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. ("NRI", TYO: 4307) is an independent, global IT solutions and consulting services provider with annual sales of 335.5 billion yen as of FY ended March 2012. With front-to-back support for the buy- and sell-side, NRI's tradition of innovation has positioned them as a trusted international market leader. Leveraging NRI's global consulting business, NRI is able to provide innovative financial IT solutions for investment banks, asset managers, banks and insurance providers. For more information, visit www.nri.com.

[ABOUT FINANCIAL MARKETS PANEL]

The Financial Markets Panel is a group of academics and practitioners brought together by the Nomura Research Institute to discuss policies relating financial markets. Launched in March 2009, the Panel meets roughly once every two months.
For more information, please visit http://www.nri.com/research/financial-markets-panel

[ABOUT CHINA FINANCE 40 FORUM]

China Finance 40 Forum ("CF40" or the "Forum") was founded on April 12, 2008 in Finance Street, Beijing. "China Finance 40 Forum" is composed of 40 elites from academic, governmental and professional institutions in the financial field. As a non-governmental and not-for-profit research institution, CF40 dedicates itself to the study of concurrent financial topics via a forward-looking perspective. It intends to push forward China's financial reforms so as to contribute to the nation's economic and financial development. For more information, please visit http://www.cf40.org.cn/index_en.php