Think of giants in the finance world and images of pin-stripe suited excess and Hollywood film stars pounding their chests usually spring to mind.
Christopher Willcox has been awarded the highest-ever pay package for an executive at Nomura. He is understood to have been paid nearly four times as much as the CEO The £9.5million award is understood to be around four times higher than chief executive officer Kentaro Okuda's £2.5million annual pay, regulatory filings show.
After 15 dedicated years at the company, Willcox headed for the big four, becoming a 'co-head of global rates and FX' at JP Morgan in London. In fact, in April this year, it was reported that Nomura enjoyed a 670 per cent surge in net profits compared to a year earlier.