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Nomura Trust Bank (Nomura Trust Bank)

Confidence: Likely Updated 2026-05-25 Review by 2026-11-20 Sources 6 Machine-translated Original (JA)
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This entry sits under trust-banks INDEX. Read it with banking index for adjacent context, Nomura Holdings (Nomura HD) for parent group context, SMTB / MUTB for peer trust-bank comparison, and Financial licenses for the broader regulatory boundary.

1. Legal entity / license boundary

ItemReading
Legal name野村信託銀行株式会社
English nameThe Nomura Trust and Banking Co., Ltd.
FSA category信託銀行
Bank code0304
Head officeUrban Net Otemachi Building 19F, 2-2号 Otemachi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Established1993-08-24
Capital575 億円
Parent boundary[[securities-firms/nomura-hd
Major affiliated entity[[securities-firms/nomura-securities

2. Parent Nomura Holdings (Nomura HD) structure

野村ホールディングス（東証 PRIME 8604 / NYSE: NMR）
  ├── 野村證券（100%）── 中核証券子会社、国内最大手
  ├── 野村信託銀行（100%）── 銀行牌照・信託機能アーム ← 本ページ
  ├── 野村アセットマネジメント（100%）── 国内最大級 AM
  ├── Nomura International (Hong Kong / London / NY) ── 海外証券
  ├── 野村バブコック&ブラウン ── 不動産・インフラ投資
  └── その他金融子会社

Nomura Trust Bank is positioned to provide deposit, lending, trust, and settlement functions to a securities-centric group. While Nomura HD holds a business portfolio centered on securities and AM, it serves as the vehicle for internalizing the banking license required for the comprehensive Wealth Management (high-net-worth business) proposition.

4. Principal business — trust functions ancillary to the securities group

  • Retail business — deposits, mortgage loans, personal loans (complementary services for Nomura Securities clients)
  • Banking business — settlement, foreign exchange, exchange-rate risk management
  • Asset management business — testamentary trusts, inheritance-related trusts, inheritance consulting
  • Securities / investment business — wrap trusts (fund wrap), SMA (discretionary investment), pension trusts
  • Corporate services — employee stock-ownership incentive trusts (ESOP / J-ESOP), stock-compensation trusts
  • Asset securitization trusts — trust assumption of real estate and monetary claims
  • Bank-agent model — using Nomura Securities as bank agent / trust-agreement agent to sell banking and trust products through the securities channel

5. Key chronology

Year/MonthEvent
2008-09Lehman bankruptcy + Nomura Securities’ acquisition of Lehman’s Asia division, group expansion phase

6. Peer comparison — trust-bank market

Trust bankParent FGDeposit scaleStrength axis
[[trust-banks/sumitomo-mitsui-trust三井住友信託 (SMTB)]]SuMi TRUST HD¥tens of trillions
[[trust-banks/mitsubishi-ufj-trust-bank三菱 UFJ 信託 (MUTB)]][[megabanks/mufgMUFG]]
[[trust-banks/mizuho-trust-bankingみずほ信託 (MTBJ)]][[megabanks/mizuho-fgみずほ FG]]
野村信託銀行**[[securities-firms/nomura-hd野村 HD]]**Deposits 1兆3,573億円 / Total assets 2兆754億円 (FY2025.3 standalone)
[[regional-banks/daiwa-next-bank大和ネクスト銀行]] (Daiwa Securities affiliate)[[securities-firms/daiwa-securities-group大和証券 G]]
[[trust-banks/sbi-shinsei-trust-bankSBI 新生信託]][[regional-banks/sbi-shinsei-bankSBI 新生]]

Nomura Trust is smaller in scale than the 3 major trusts, but as a securities-group-affiliated trust it forms a distinct category alongside Daiwa Next Bank. Whereas SMTB / MUTB / MTBJ are heavily weighted toward institutional investors in corporate custody / pensions, Nomura Trust carves out its niche through ancillary business serving individual high-net-worth clients and Nomura Securities customers.

7. Supervision / regulation

  • Supervisor: Financial Services Agency (FSA), Kanto Local Finance Bureau
  • Business type: trust bank (Banking Act + Trust Business Act)
  • Industry bodies: Trust Companies Association, Japanese Bankers Association
  • NRA Stress Test: subject to the FRB Stress Test on a Nomura HD consolidated basis (US entity)
  • Trust-industry regulation: Trust Business Act, trust-agreement-agent regulation, business-scope regulation
  • Consolidated supervision: under consolidated Basel III regulation owing to Nomura HD’s G-SIB designation

8. Counterpoints

Subjective competitive assessments and points of contention are separated into .opinions/JapanFG/nomura-trust-bank.md.

9. Open questions

  • Precise confirmation of the latest-fiscal-year figures for Nomura Trust Bank’s standalone financial metrics (deposits / loans / ordinary profit) (trust-bank standalone disclosure / Nomura HD segment disclosure)
  • The depth of securities + trust coordination within the Wealth Management strategy, and countermeasures against competitors (SMBC Nikko + SMTB coordination, Daiwa + Daiwa Next coordination)
  • The status of acquiring overseas institutional investors in the custody business (relationship with major custody specialists such as MTBJ-master / JTSB)
  • The degree of spillover to trust-subsidiary earnings during US market-risk fluctuations
  • The possibility of entry into crypto-asset trusts / tokenized-asset trusts (where SBI Shinsei Trust Bank is ahead)

Sources

[!info] Verification status confidence: likely (based on v1.1 public sources, 2026-05-25 expansion). Nomura HD 100% subsidiary status, trust-bank category, and business content can be confirmed on a public basis. The year of establishment (1993年 assumed), head-office location, and detailed KPI figures should be confirmed case by case via official corporate information / Nomura HD annual securities report segment disclosure ^[inferred / ambiguous].