Masahito Nonaka

Head of Global Markets, Americas

Masahito Nonaka is Deputy Head of the Americas Division, Head of Global Markets, Americas, and Executive Officer and Deputy President of Nikko America. Masahito is based in our New York office and was appointed to his current role in 2024.

Prior to this, in August 2019, Masahito was named Deputy General Manager in Fixed Income for SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. in Tokyo, where he supervised the Credit Trading team in both Japanese yen and non-Japanese yen transactions.

Before this, Masahito was Head of Credit Trading in London for SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited from October 2010 to August 2019. In this role, he supervised the credit trading desk in fixed income, and he was ranked Number 1 out of approximately 500 traders for USD Japanese Financial sector in MarketAxess monthly trade volume every month from January 2016 to August 2019.

Prior to his posting to London, Masahito worked at Nikko Securities Inc. for more than 17 years. He joined the company in April 1993 in Tokyo, where he developed business opportunities and marketing products such as equities, bonds, and mutual funds within the Niigata branch for three years.

Subsequently, he worked in bond sales for more than five years, developing business opportunities with government agencies, municipal government funds, education funds, and other foundations. In September 2001, he was appointed a Director and was responsible for market making in Japanese yen credit bonds, including samurai, Euroyen, and corporate bonds.

Masahito has a Bachelor of Laws from Nihon University