Jesse Bhattal retires from Nomura

Rumours about Jasjit “Jesse” Bhattal’s future as the head of Nomura’s investment bank have been doing the rounds for years now. There’s never been much debate about whether he would stay or whether he would go — the question has always been when, as industry watchers have wondered how Nomura could possibly have absorbed the cost of buying Lehman Brothers’ European and Asian operations in 2008.