Equities
Our purpose
Our approach and actions are underpinned by our core values:
Our strengths
Access and Liquidity
Leading execution and distribution services in cash equity, equity-linked, and derivatives products across the Americas and Asia.
Full-service equities trading platform with expertise in high touch trading, electronic trading, global program trading, convertible trading, delta one swap trading, structured finance solutions, synthetic financing solutions in swaps, and corporate equity derivatives.
Dedicated team of equities professionals with deep relationships with both investor and corporate clients.
Senior, industry-leading futures clearer and execution provider.
Deep Japan underlying liquidity provider with proprietary Japanese electronic trading platform complementing our strong market share in Japan high- touch trading; newly-launched algorithm, Compass, with AI capabilities to forecast volume and price providing access to additional Japan underlying trading technology.
Equity Capital Markets
Mizuho Americas' Equity Capital Markets Group works with a broad number of leading corporations and financial sponsors to raise equity financing in the public and private markets.
Our seasoned staff is adept at developing equity solutions attuned to the challenges of shifting market conditions, from IPO’s and follow-on offerings to equity-linked notes and SPACs.
Proprietary Research
Alpha-generating market and company insights from our growing US, Europe, and Asia equity research teams.
100+ economists, strategists, and research analysts in the US, Japan, and Asia ex-Japan, provide macro and proprietary, single-name research analysis and recommendations on approximately 1000 companies.
Deep US sector expertise in technology, fintech, biotechnology, healthcare services and devices, energy, utilities, energy, MLPs, industrial and consumer, and REITs.
Active Bookrunner on Rexford Industrial Realty's $644 million Common Stock Forward Sale Block
2022
Joint
Bookrunner on Corebridge Financial's $1.7 billion Initial Public Offering
2022
Active Bookrunner on Next Era Energy's $2 billion equity units
2022
Our expertise
Equities Sales & Trading
Our trusted trading teams are tenured, with an average of 15 years of experience, and known for fostering long term partnerships while strategically deploying the firm’s financial resources to find creative liquidity solutions for our clients.
High Touch Trading
Electronic Trading
Global Program Trading
Convertible Trading
Delta One Swap Trading
SPAC Trading
Structured Finance Solutions
Synthetic Financing Solutions in Swaps
Corporate Equity Derivatives
Products and Solutions
US, Japan and Asian Cash Trading and Electronic Trading
Program Trading, ETF Trading, and ETF Create/Redeem services
Our Structured Finance team is actively involved in securities borrowing and lending in the US, as well as most major markets. In addition to securities lending, the Equity Finance team can transact via SWAP, Reversal Conversion, Single Stock Future (SSF), and Index Futures.
Equity Swaps providing our clients with synthetic exposure via total return swap.
Equity Derivatives offering Corporates, Mizuho Retail Clients, and Asset Managers full service solutions around hedging, monetization, yield enhancement, and asset replacement. We offer derivatives solutions including accelerated share repurchases, collars, convertible call spreads, and equity forwards.
SPAC Distribution and Trading
Convertibles Distribution and Trading
Equity Research
Our global equity research team comprises of 100+ top-ranked research analysts, strategists and analysts in the Americas, Japan and Hong Kong, who provide proprietary analysis, stock recommendations, and macro insights on over 1,000 companies globally. We pride ourselves on providing our clients with one-on-one access to top management at leading public and private companies, timely calls with renowned, independent experts, thematic conferences, and customized field trips to Japan, Asia-ex Japan and around the US.
Awards
#1 ranking for Japanese Equity Research in the latest 2021 Greenwich Survey with 13 top ranked sector analysts and 19 ranked top 2, of a total of 20 sections.
#2 2022 Institutional Investor All-Japan Research Team
#3 2022 Most Popular Equity Analysts by Nikkei Veritas
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Corporate Access Conferences & Large Scale Events
Our Corporate Access team leverages relationships across Mizuho Financial Group to offer unparalleled access to investors and corporates. Thematic, content-driven corporate access events such as non-deal roadshows, conferences, seminars, and investor tours provide a platform for the exchange of actionable ideas.
By participating in our events, our corporate clients can strategically expand their investor base and institutional investor clients can make more informed investment decisions.
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Corporate Access Highlights
Serve as a bridge for North American investors and Japanese Corporates in collaboration with the Corporate Access team in Tokyo.
Thematic large scale events in the Americas include an Energy Summit, Healthcare REIT Conference, Cybersecurity Summit, Therapeutics Expert Seminar, Software Summit, Utility Summit, CES Outlook Series, and Industrial Bus Tour, among others.
Customized reverse non-deal roadshows, bespoke conference calls, and virtual events.
4,500+ US Corporate Access meetings arranged in 2022.
450+ unique and public corporates featured in 2022, and ~120 of these best in class companies accessed Japanese institutional investors.
Japan Alpha conferences in Tokyo host nearly 200 Japanese companies and offer thematic seminars in Japan.
Annually host 100+ Japanese Corporates for roadshows and conferences in North America.
Reverse roadshow team in Tokyo arranged 1700+ conference calls in 2022 and started to arrange customized trips to Japan for North American investors as covid related restrictions started to ease.
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