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The 2014 Tech 50: Yasuki Okai

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    Yasuki Okai
    Head, Financial Technology Solutions
    Nomura Research Institute

    Have a recovering economy and rising profits relieved Japanese financial institutions of their long-standing cost-cutting pressures? Not according to Yasuki Okai, who as Tokyo-based Nomura Research Institute’s head of financial technology solutions has a clear view of the investment climate. The ¥386 billion-in-revenue ($3.8 billion) information technology systems and consulting company’s clientele includes commercial and investment banks, asset managers and insurers. “Both the buy side and sell side are under tremendous pressure to reduce costs,” observes Okai, 51, who has worked for the onetime Nomura Securities International affiliate since 1988, the year its IT solutions business launched. Managements are making hard restructuring decisions, distinguishing between core businesses to invest in and noncore activities for outsourcing. The latter moves are common “especially in middle- and back-office functions,” Okai says, and NRI is at the ready. Last September it announced Post-Trade Plus, a custody and asset-servicing package for broker-dealers looking for economical infrastructure to support expansion across Asia. NRI enhanced its capabilities this year by purchasing 51 percent of Daiko Clearing Services Corp. from Nomura Holdings for ¥1.9 billion. “Clients can focus more on their core business by outsourcing,” says Okai. “They can invest more in their core business while gaining stable middle- and back-office infrastructure through us.”

    The 2014 Tech 50

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    Thomas Secunda
    Bloomberg
    Jeffrey Sprecher
    Intercontinental Exchange
    凯瑟琳Bessant
    Bank of America Corp.
    Stephen Neff
    Fidelity Investments
    Lance Uggla
    Markit
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10
    Robert Goldstein
    BlackRock
    David Craig
    Thomson Reuters
    Phupinder Gill
    CME Group
    Anna Ewing
    NASDAQ
    OMX Group
    R. Martin Chavez
    Goldman Sachs Group
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    12
    13
    14
    15
    Deborah Hopkins
    Citi Ventures
    Dan Mathisson
    Credit Suisse
    Daniel Coleman
    KCG Holdings
    Michael Spencer
    ICAP
    Michael Bodson
    Depository Trust &
    Clearing Corp.
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    20
    Joe Ratterman
    BATS Global Markets
    Dominique Cerutti
    Euronext
    Ron Levi
    GFI Group
    Gaurav Suri
    D.E. Shaw Group
    Charles Li
    Hong Kong
    Exchanges and
    Clearing
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    22
    23
    24
    25
    Lou Eccleston
    S&P Capital IQ
    Lee Olesky
    Tradeweb Markets
    Richard McVey
    MarketAxess Holdings
    Seth Merrin
    Liquidnet Holdings
    Antoine
    Shagoury

    London Stock
    Exchange Group
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    27
    28
    29
    30
    Christopher
    Perretta

    State Street Corp.
    Kevin Rhein
    Wells Fargo & Co.
    Peter Carr
    Morgan Stanley
    Hauke Stars
    Deutsche Börse
    Robert Alexander
    Capital One
    Financial Corp.
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    34
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    David Gershon
    SuperDerivatives
    Chris Corrado
    MSCI
    Joseph Squeri
    Citadel
    Tanuja Randery
    BT Global Services
    John Bates
    Software AG
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    40
    Gary Scholten
    Principal Financial Group
    David Gledhill
    DBS Bank
    Simon Garland
    Kx Systems
    Cristóbal Conde
    FinTech Innovation Lab
    Jeff Parker
    EidoSearch
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    42
    43
    44
    45
    Kim Fournais &
    Lars Seier Christensen

    Saxo Bank
    Kenneth Marlin
    Marlin & Associates
    Tyler Kim
    MaplesFS
    Jim McGuire
    Charles Schwab Corp.
    Jim Minnick
    eVestment
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    Steven O’Hanlon
    Numerix
    Sebastián Ceria
    Axioma
    Yasuki Okai
    Nomura Research Institute
    Niki Beattie
    Market Structure Partners
    Mas Nakachi
    OpenGamma

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