Nomura has completed its European senior management line-up less than a month after sealing its acquisition of Lehman Brothers' equities and investment banking business in the region, after naming the collapsed Wall Street bank's former co-heads of fixed-income for Europe and the Middle East to a similar role.

Georges Assi and Kieran Higgins will jointly run Nomura's fixed-income business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, reporting directly to Zenji Nakamura, head of global fixed-income, and Sadeq Sayeed, chief executive of the acquired investment banking and equities in the region.