Daiwa facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Daiwa Securities Group Inc

Type	public company
Traded as	TYO: 8601
Industry	Investment banking
Founded	1943 (1943)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Hibino Takashi (President and CEO)
Products	Financial services Investment banking Investment management Brokerage firm
Total assets	$196.7 billion (2015)
Number of employees	14,456 (at March 2008)

Daiwa Securities Group is a big Japanese company that helps people and businesses with their money. It's like a special bank that focuses on investments. They are the second largest company of their kind in Japan, right after Nomura Securities.

What Daiwa Securities Does

Daiwa Securities Group helps people and companies manage their money and investments. They offer different services, like helping individuals buy and sell stocks online. They also work with big companies to help them grow or manage their finances.

Helping Individuals and Companies

Daiwa Securities has different parts that do different jobs:

• Daiwa Securities helps regular people, like you and me, invest their money. They offer services like online trading, where you can buy and sell stocks from your computer. They also help Japanese companies with their investments.
• Daiwa Capital Markets is the part of the company that works with big businesses and other large organizations around the world. They help these clients with things like:
  • Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A): This is when two companies decide to join together, or when one company buys another. Daiwa helps them figure out the best way to do this.
  • Sales and Trading: They help big clients buy and sell different kinds of financial products.
• Other parts of the group help manage money for others, do research on companies, and invest in new businesses.

Important Connections

Daiwa Securities Group is also a major owner of another company called SL Green. This means they own a big part of SL Green's shares.