Daiwa Securities : Status of Share Repurchase

January 4, 2018

Press Release

Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

Status of Share Repurchase

(Share repurchase under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 459,

Paragraph 1 of the Companies Act of Japan)

Attention

This document is an unofficial translation of a press release announced on January 4, 2018 by Daiwa Securities Group Inc. The original press release is in Japanese.

Daiwa Securities Group Inc. announces the status of share repurchase, as outlined below. The share repurchase was resolved by the meeting of Board of Directors on October 25, 2017 under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 459, Paragraph 1 of the Companies Act of Japan.

(1) Type of shares	Common Stock
(2) Total number of shares repurchased	14,400,000
(3) Total amount paid for repurchase	JPY 10,101,800,900
(4) Period of share repurchase	December 1, 2017 to December 22, 2017
(5) Method of repurchase	Purchase on the stock market via trust bank
(Reference)

1. Details of the share repurchase as approved by the meeting of Board of Directors on October 25, 2017.

• (1) Type of shares

• (2) Total number of shares to be repurchasedCommon Stock Up to 52 million

(3.12% of total shares outstanding, excluding treasury stock)

(3)	Total amount to be paid for repurchase	Up to JPY 40 billion
(4)	Period of share repurchase	November 2, 2017 to March 23, 2018
(excluding January 25, 2018 to February 16,
2018)
(5)	Method of repurchase	Purchase on the stock market via trust bank
2.
(1)
(2)

Total number of shares repurchased and total amount paid for repurchase as of November 30, 2017, pursuant to the Board of Directors' resolution above.

Total number of shares repurchased Total amount paid for repurchase

31,500,000

JPY 22,182,561,100

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