Equity Department
Fixed Income Department
Investment Banking Department
Structured Transaction Group

Equity Business

1. Japanese Equities

Research Sales Group


Provides high quality investment information and research products
Arranges meetings and seminars with Japanese companies, analysts, economists and strategists
Major underwriter of Japanese Equity IPOs and secondary offerings

Sales Trading Groups

  • Access to market making
  • Send your orders direct to our trading desk in Tokyo, or enter orders in New York
  • Access to block offers from domestic institutions
  • Route your orders directly to Japanese exchanges through our electronic execution system
Japanese Equity Trading
  • Trades ADRs
  • Makes markets on NASDAQ
  • Prices principal baskets, VWAP guaranty, and individual stocks

2. US Equities

  • Provides high quality investment information and research products
  • Arranges meetings with US companies, Analysts, economists and strategists for Japanese institutional investors
  • Members of all Major Exchanges in US

Go to US Equity Page (Contents in Japanese)

3. Structured Transaction Group

DSA's Structured Transactions Group (STG) is a diversified group that offers global trading opportunities tailored to meet the needs of sophisticated clients. The STG desk is composed of highly experienced traders offering a wide range of products and securities lending.

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Fixed Income Business

Daiwa Securities America Inc. has been a primary dealer since 1986. Our primary dealer and other fixed income operations comprise four areas:

  • sales and trading US Treasuries;
  • matched book sales and trading activities;
  • fixed income derivatives; and
  • sales of Yen based fixed income securities.

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Investment Banking Business

The group provides a full range of capital - raising services for corporate and institutional clients and manages the firm's activities in the primary debt and equity capital markets. The group works closely with its counterparts in Tokyo, London and Hong Kong in the structuring, execution and distribution of public and private offerings.

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