ETN Issuers

Barclays is a major institution providing global financial services, including retail banking, credit cards, corporate/investment banking, and wealth management, with locations in Europe, the US, Africa, and Asia. It has over 330 years of history and in-depth banking knowledge to support its fund transfer, lending, investment, and protection services which it provides to customers and clients in over 50 countries.
Barclays Capital Securities is the Japanese arm of Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. It provides customers with a diverse range of financial solutions, including its primary operations of fund-raising and risk management. In the fall of 2008, Barclays Group acquired the North American investment banking and capital market operations of Lehman Brothers. In addition to strengthening its global stock and investment banking operations, it greatly expanded its business base in Japan and Asia.

Nomura Europe Finance N.V. (NEF) is substantially a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NHI) and assists NHI and its subsidiaries (together the “Nomura Group”) in such activities as raising funds from the global debt capital markets and providing for the transfer of funds internationally, coupled with the management of surplus funds.

Nomura Group mainly engages in investment and financial business centering on securities business and provides a wide range of services both for financial arrangements and investment management through offices covering major financial cities and capital markets in the world. In particular, Nomura Group’s business include sales and purchase and intermediary for entrustment of securities, underwriting and secondary distribution of securities, dealing in public offering and secondary distribution, dealing in private placement of securities, principal investment, asset management and any other securities and financial services