Nomura Trust Bank (Nomura Trust Bank)

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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

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

6. Peer comparison — trust-bank market

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)

Related

• nomura-hd — parent company, securities-centric financial group
• nomura-securities — core securities subsidiary
• nomura-asset-management — group AM
• sumitomo-mitsui-trust — largest domestic independent trust
• mitsubishi-ufj-trust-bank — MUFG-affiliated trust
• mizuho-trust-banking — Mizuho-affiliated trust
• daiwa-next-bank — Daiwa Securities-affiliated bank (peer structure)
• sbi-shinsei-trust-bank — startup / crypto-asset trust peer
• INDEX
• post-megabank-positioning

Sources

• FSA, “銀行免許一覧”, ginkou.xlsx.
• Nomura Trust Bank, “会社概要”, https://www.nomura-trust.co.jp/company/corp.html (head office: Urban Net Otemachi Building 19F, 2-2号 Otemachi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; established 1993-08-24; capital 575 億円)
• Nomura Trust Bank, “事業内容”, https://www.nomura-trust.co.jp/company/business.html
• Nomura Trust Bank 2025年3月 term financial results summary (2025-05-13; deposits 1兆3,573億円 / total assets 2兆754億円 / net income 60億円, standalone: https://www.nomura-trust.co.jp/ir/pdf/2503.pdf)
• Nomura Holdings annual securities report / Form 20-F (annual consolidated disclosure)
• Wikipedia: 野村信託銀行 (public information)

[!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 ^•.