Takahiko Hyuga

As an estimated 12% of Japan’s population tunes in to watch baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani’s first World Series, one group is missing out: traders in Tokyo who can’t watch the games on their mobiles or on TV.

As an estimated 12% of Japan's population tunes in to watch baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani 's first World Series, one group is missing out: traders in Tokyo who can't view the games on their mobiles or on TV.

(Bloomberg) -- As an estimated 12% of Japan's population tunes in to watch baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani's first World Series, one group is missing out: traders in Tokyo who can't view the games on their mobiles or on TV.

AT 8:45 am on a spring day in 2021, a Nomura Holdings Inc. trader began a series of complex transactions over five hours on the Osaka Exchange that would earn Japan's largest securities firm next to nothing but cost it dearly.

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(Bloomberg) -- Some clients of Nomura Holdings Inc. are restarting business with the Japanese brokerage after it took steps to address concerns arising from a regulatory probe into market manipulation, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Some clients of Nomura Holdings Inc. are restarting business with the Japanese brokerage after it took steps to address concerns arising from a regulatory probe into market manipulation, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Many of the firms returned to Nomura after the brokerage explained to them measures it is taking to prevent a recurrence of the breach, the people said.