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18-464: Winterslow Hut was a late 17th-century coaching inn on the London to Exeter stagecoach route at Winterslow, Wiltshire , England. Its isolated location on Salisbury Plain between Salisbury and Andover , with a spring close by, made it a useful resting place for drovers , and later for stage and mail coaches. The quiet surroundings and solitude, interrupted only by the arrival of the coaches, also drew

36-548: A cock and bull story. However, there is no evidence to suggest that this is where the phrase originated. The phrase, first recorded in 1621, may instead be an allusion to Aesop's fables , with their incredible talking animals. Nomura Holdings The history of Nomura began on December 25, 1925, when Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (NSC) was established in Osaka , as a spin-off from Securities Dept. of Osaka Nomura Bank Co., Ltd (the present day Resona Bank ). NSC initially focused on

54-462: A controlling stake of cross shareholdings and manages financial assistance among member companies which help to deflect hostile takeovers. Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. is a Japanese financial services company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NHI), which forms part of the Nomura Group . It plays a central role in the securities business, the group's core business. Nomura

72-721: Is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo , Japan , with regional headquarters in Hong Kong , London , and New York , Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide; it is known as Nomura Securities International in the US, and Nomura International plc. in EMEA . It operates through five business divisions: retail (in Japan), global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management. Established December 25, 1925 in Osaka , it

90-439: Is expected to close on March 31, 2020. Greentech will be rebranded to "Nomura Greentech" and will form part of their Investment Banking franchise in the U.S. The marketing slogan of Nomura is "Connecting Markets East & West". Nomura Holdings, Inc. is the holding company of the Nomura Group and the group's principal member. As a keiretsu , Nomura Holdings, Inc. does not directly run member companies, rather it keeps

108-566: Is now central London . The only remaining one with the galleries to the bedrooms above is The George Inn, Southwark , owned by the National Trust and still run as a pub. Many have been demolished and plaques mark their location. The Nomura building close to the Museum of London on London Wall commemorates the "Bull and Mouth" Inn. The Golden Cross House, opposite St Martin's in the Fields recalls

126-618: Is probably the oldest Welsh coaching inn. Other historic inns in Wales include the Black Boy Inn (built 1522) and the Groes Inn (1573). The Bear, Oxford , was founded in 1774 as 'The Jolly Trooper' from the house of the stableman to the coaching inn 'The Bear Inn', on High Street . It acquired the name The Bear, and the history of the coaching inn, when The Bear Inn was converted into a private house in 1801. There were many coaching inns in what

144-547: Is the oldest brokerage firm in Japan. It is named after its founder Tokushichi Nomura II , a wealthy Japanese businessman and investor. Nomura was founded by Tokushichi Nomura, father of Nomura Securities founder Tokushichi Nomura II as a money changing business. This was just before the Meiji Restoration , the move to setting up a bank was a logical extension and progression of this business as times changed. Changes included

162-651: The bond market . It was named after its founder Tokushichi Nomura II , a wealthy Japanese businessman and investor. He had earlier established Osaka Nomura bank in 1918, based on the Mitsui zaibatsu model with a capital of ¥10 million. Like the majority of Japanese conglomerates , or zaibatsu , its origins were in Osaka , but today operates out of Tokyo. NSC gained the authority to trade stock in 1938, and went public in 1961. In October 2008, Nomura acquired most of Lehman Brothers ' Asian operations together with its European equities and investment banking units to make one of

180-536: The Golden Cross, Charing Cross coaching inn. A pair of coaching inns along Watling Street in Stony Stratford are claimed to have given rise to the term " cock and bull stories ". The claim is that stories by coach passengers would be further embellished as they passed between the two hostelries, "The Cock" and "The Bull", fuelled by ale and an interested audience. Hence any suspiciously elaborate tale would become

198-552: The critic and essayist William Hazlitt to the inn in the early 19th century, where he regularly rented a room and produced some of his greatest writing, including Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819) and the first volume of Table-Talk (1821). Winterslow Hut was brought to national attention when an escaped lioness attacked the horses of the London-bound Quicksilver mail coach as it drew up outside

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216-620: The founding of stock exchanges in Tokyo and Osaka as the country became industrialised. Key amongst these changes was the Japanese government's decision to issue foreign currency denominated public bonds to fund the Russo-Japanese war ; Nomura employed English speaking staff so that they could take on this international business. By 1906 Nomura had founded an in-house research department headed up by former Osaka newspaper journalist Kisaku Hashimoto. This

234-652: The inn during the night of 20 October 1816. During World War II, the inn was used as off-base officers' accommodation for Royal Air Force night fighter crews stationed at RAF Middle Wallop . By the 20th century, the business was trading as the Pheasant Hotel or the Pheasant Inn. The inn closed in 2007 and the much-altered building is now four dwellings. [REDACTED] Media related to The Pheasant Hotel, Winterslow at Wikimedia Commons Coaching inn The coaching inn (also coaching house or staging inn )

252-641: The public riding stagecoaches between one town and another, and (in England at least) the mail coach . Just as with roadhouses in other countries, although many survive, and some still offer overnight accommodation, in general coaching inns have lost their original function and now operate as ordinary pubs . Coaching inns stabled teams of horses for stagecoaches and mail coaches and replaced tired teams with fresh teams. In America, stage stations performed these functions. Traditionally English coaching inns were seven miles (11 km) apart but this depended very much on

270-495: The purchase of Lehman's Asia-Pacific unit. Due to large losses with shares dropping to their lowest level in nearly 37 years, Nomura cut around 5 percent of its staff in Europe (as many as 500 people) in mid-September 2011. In December 2019, Nomura announced that it would acquire Greentech Capital Advisors, a boutique investment bank with stated aims of assisting clients across sustainable technology and infrastructure. The transaction

288-555: The terrain. Some English towns had as many as ten such inns and rivalry between them was intense, not only for the income from the stagecoach operators but for the revenue for food and drink supplied to the passengers. Barnet , Hertfordshire still has an unusually high number of historic pubs along its high street due to its former position on the Great North Road from London to Scotland. The Black Lion in Cardigan (established 1105)

306-430: The world's largest independent investment banks with ¥20,300bn (£138bn) assets under management. In April 2009, the global headquarters for investment banking was moved out of Tokyo to London as part of a strategy to move the company's focus from Japan to global markets, with Josh Tokley appointed Head of UK Investments. Following his subsequent suspension, Tokley was replaced by Michael Coombs. Nomura paid $ 225 million for

324-412: Was a vital part of Europe's inland transport infrastructure until the development of the railway , providing a resting point ( layover ) for people and horses. The inn served the needs of travellers, for food, drink, and rest. The attached stables, staffed by hostlers , cared for the horses, including changing a tired team for a fresh one. Coaching inns were used by private travellers in their coaches ,

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