〈Photo at Awards Ceremony〉 From left: DealWatch Chief Editor Hiroko Yoneda, NRI Chairman, President & CEO Shingo Konomoto, NRI Senior Corporate Managing Director Yoshihiko Sunaga, and Refinitiv Japan K.K. President Hideo Tomita

The awards event was established in 1995 by Refinitiv with the aim of contributing to the growth and development of capital markets in Japan. The winners are chosen in consideration of numerous criteria, including appropriate pricing in the issuance market, subsequent price formation in the secondary market, and contributions and ingenuity toward the development of capital markets, with the purpose being to drive the further growth of the Japanese market among the world’s leading markets.

This year, NRI was lauded for its “active use of both the stock and bond markets in project management that offered stability in a volatile market environment”, or more specifically, for “a Japanese company introducing a scheme in line with the sellers’ intentions in the first large-scale secondary offering of FY2022 in the equities market, and presenting a growth strategy leading to the expansion of its shareholder base”, and for “achieving large-scale bond issues for five-year bonds, seven-year bonds, and ten-year bonds simultaneously through close communications with investors in the bond market”. It was in recognition of these achievements that NRI was named “Issuer of the Year” in the Overall category.

At an awards ceremony held on May 25, NRI Chairman, President & CEO Shingo Konomoto gave the following remarks:
“We were able to make this secondary offering of shares and issuance of corporate bonds at the ideal timing thanks to the support of everyone involved, and we achieved very good results. The NRI Group announced in April of this year its long-term management vision up to FY2030 and its Medium-term Management Program up to FY2025, and we will be actively making investments. We look forward to achieving our long-term growth strategy with your continued support and the powers of the capital markets.”

NRI will continue striving to achieve greater financing stability in a timely and appropriate manner in the Japanese and foreign capital markets, while also contributing to the sound development of society and capital markets as a solutions provider for social and financial infrastructures using digital technologies.

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  To learn more about DEALWATCH AWARDS 2022 presented by Refinitiv, please visit the following URL.
  https://www.refinitiv.com/content/dam/marketing/ja_jp/documents/other/dealwatch-award-2022-ja.pdf

Reference

■ To learn more about NRI’s secondary offering of shares, please visit the following URL.
https://ir.nri.com/jp/ir/news/auto_20221122570104/pdfFile.pdf

■ To learn more about NRI’s issuance of corporate bonds, please visit the following URL.
https://ir.nri.com/jp/ir/news/auto_20221216579673/pdfFile.pdf