Strong momentum across US and Japanese stock markets has propelled Nomura International Wealth Management’s (Nomura IWM) structured products business to double-digit year-on-year growth in traded notional for the first half of 2026. Japanese equities currently count as the bank’s second-largest underlying exposure for structured products, behind US equities, and recorded a “healthy double-digit” jump year-on-year in traded notional in the…
