Nikko Citigroup

Nikko Citigroup Limited (日興シティグループ証券株式会社, Nikkō Shitigurūpu Shōken Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a financial services firm in Japan. It is a joint venture between Citigroup and the Nikko Cordial Corporation.

Nikko Cordial and Citigroup first established a joint venture in Japan in 1999 as Salomon Smith Barney Japan Ltd., a company registered and domiciled in the Cayman Islands which operated through a "branch office" in Japan under the trade name Nikko Salomon Smith Barney Securities (日興ソロモン・スミス・バーニー証券, Nikkō Soromon Sumisu Bānī Shōken^?).

The company was re-incorporated in Japan in December of 2003 and renamed Nikko Citigroup as part of an overall unification of the Citigroup brand.

Nikko Citigroup is a member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Stock Exchange, Nagoya Stock Exchange and JASDAQ. Its headquarters are located in the Shin-Marunouchi Building in Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It also has a branch office in the Sonezaki district of Kita-ku, Osaka.

In October 2007, Citigroup purchased Nikko Cordial Corporation.

At the 2008 ALB Japan Law Awards^[1], Nikko Citigroup was crowned:

• In-House of the Year - International Investment Bank In-House Team of the Year
• Deal of the Year - M&A Deal of the Year
• Deal of the Year - Japan Deal of the Year

In October 2010, this entity was rebranded and renamed Citigroup Global Markets Japan. The new website is http://www.citigroupglobalmarkets.co.jp/english/.

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