Leadership quotes emphasize the transformative potential of safe, beneficial AI underpinning the collaboration.

OpenAI prioritizes delivering safe, advanced AI technologies and helping organizations unlock value across industries, with a focus on banking and financial services transformations.

The collaboration will merge Nomura’s proprietary in-house data with external datasets to provide differentiated investment advice, market analysis, and data solutions, all under rigorous security and governance.

The initiative aims to boost productivity and craft solutions for challenges in global capital markets and society through cutting-edge generative AI.

Chief leadership messages reiterate that generative AI will reshape financial services, enabling more accessible, secure services and novel revenue streams.

Okuda views generative AI as a fundamental catalyst for change in financial services, with the collaboration enabling advanced advisory capabilities and new revenue models.

Nomura’s President and Group CEO Kentaro Okuda states that generative AI can transform financial services, improving access to secure services and creating new revenue opportunities beyond traditional models.

Nomura positions itself as a global financial services group with four divisions—Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale, and Banking—and emphasizes its commitment to innovation.

OpenAI frames the collaboration as part of a broader trend toward safe, advanced AI reshaping industries, with OpenAI Japan highlighting opportunities to introduce cutting-edge AI and strengthen operational capabilities.

Tadao Nagasaki, President and CEO of OpenAI Japan GK, underscores AI’s role in transforming industries and society and the collaboration’s potential to develop innovative services and bolster operations.

Nomura Holdings is partnering with OpenAI to advance asset management using OpenAI Deep Research and ongoing strategic and technical support to develop and deploy new services, enhance technologies, and explore additional use cases.

The article includes a brief author bio for Maria Nikolova, noting her background in forex journalism and interests in AI and linguistics.

The initiative seeks to provide clients with more accessible and secure services while unlocking new revenue opportunities beyond traditional models.

The partnership is designed to accelerate practical use of generative AI in asset management while maintaining stringent security and governance standards expected of a major financial institution.

The announcement was issued by Nomura and referenced in their news release dated November 28, 2025.