Global Financial Institutions Group The Global Financial Institutions Group offers comprehensive banking solutions to our clients by leveraging the strength of SMBC Group, our products and services, and our global platform. We work closely with product partners across the firm, serving as the primary point of contact for our clients to connect them to the broader SMBC Group, while acting as an advisor to our clients and recommending the best financial products for theirneeds. GFIG is a market leader, covering funds and asset managers, insurance companies, banks, and specialty finance companies.Leveraged Finance OriginationSMBC’s Leveraged Finance Group is a well-established and rapidly growing platform in the US which willoffer firsthand experience into the private equity space. The group’s primary mission is to originate, structure, and execute leveraged financing solutions to support financial sponsor activity. Team members work to provide cash flow and asset-based financing solutions to support leveraged buyouts (LBO) and other merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions recapitalizations, refinancing, add-on acquisitions, and other financing events for private equity backed companies.Sustainable SolutionsThe Sustainable Finance & Advisory Group supports our clients across the Americas and across all products with implementing ESG and sustainability strategy, principally through integration intofinancial products such as green bonds, sustainability-linked loans and related instruments. The SFA Group is one of the bank’s newest teams, responding to and helping drive the megatrend of ESG and financial integration.Lenders Finance Group – Origination & CollateralUnderwritingThe Lender Finance Group provides financing to financial institutions primarily engaged in middle-market leveraged lending. LFG activities support both permanent financing for loan asset manager portfolios as well as warehouse financing for CLOs which are arranged byNikko. The group has provided $10 billion in asset-based or corporate facilities across ~15-20 counterparties.