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Scott, a specialist in international banking law, is the first Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems...
...spokesperson for Nomura, the company that endowed the chair, said it hoped the donation would "encourage and recognize the trend toward scholarship and research in international finance." The Tokyo-based Nomura Securities Company, the world's largest, directly manages approximately $120 billion and acts as custodian for more than five million investors...
President Derek C. Bok said in a press release that "as prospects for a global economy increase, Law School faculty and graduates can play important roles in that process. The Nomura Chair will help in this development by strengthening the study of regulations and policies as they affect financial systems throughout the world...
...Tokyo's financial markets into a funk. The slide is threatening to choke the country's economic growth and sap the ebullient confidence that has filled Japanese investors and businessmen in recent years. "The pendulum has once again swung in Japan," says Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute. "It's now over to the doom-and-gloom side, when objectively speaking, Japanese companies remain the strongest in the world...
...Japan's trouble, raising the threat of inflation and putting upward pressure on interest rates. The yen has sagged largely because of the quickening outflow of Japan's immense cash hoard to other countries, where Japanese investors have found investments more lucrative or stable than at home. Says Nomura's Koo: "We got into this mess because Japanese investors were always moving money abroad." Example: Ito- Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, agreed last week to pay $400 million for a 75% stake in Southland Corp., the Dallas-based operator of the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores. At the same...