Daiwa Securities Group


Daiwa Securities Group Inc. is a Japanese investment bank that is the second largest securities brokerage after Nomura Securities.
Major subsidiaries include Daiwa Securities, which offers retail services such as online trading to individual investors and investment banking services in Japan, as well as Daiwa Capital Markets, the firm's international investment banking arm that provides M&A advisory, sales and trading services in a variety of financial products to corporate and institutional clients. Other group companies provide asset management, research and private equity fund services.
The company is the fourth largest shareholder in SL Green Realty.

Member companies

In 2012, Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. Ltd. was absorbed in a merger leaving Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. as the sole entity

Projects

In July 2012, Daiwa Securities Group was chosen by the Central Bank of Myanmar to spearhead a $380-million project designed to develop an IT network for the Myanmar government that would connect all ministries as well as schools and hospitals to a cloud computing system and would also entail a secure online banking system for the country.