Jasjit "Jesse" Bhattal has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Nomura's global wholesale business, making him the first foreigner to head the Tokyo-based bank's non-retail operations in Japan and abroad, and the first non-Japanese to join Nomura's executive management board.
The heads of the wholesale businesses and the regional CEOs in Asia ex-Japan, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and the Americas will report to Bhattal.