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NexBank SSB provides banking and financial products and services. Its services include private banking, residential and commercial real estate lending, complex commercial loan structuring and agent bank services, institutional services, including corporate banking and lending, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and advisory, syndicated loan servicing, customized programs, agency services, investment banking, and land advisory services. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.