2010

• Commencement of trading in bonds via the new LSE order book facility

2008

• Development of a new area of business through the recruitment of experienced staff to provide Research, Execution and Corporate Finance and Corporate Broking services in respect of Investment Companies (research on investment companies is labelled a “marketing communication”).

2007

• Firm moves to current offices: 5^th floor, The London Stock Exchange Building, Paternoster Square, London

2004

• Group establishes a wholly-owned subsidiary, NSI, based in New York. NSI is licensed by NASD (now FINRA) as a registered broker-dealer in the USA
• NSI acts as agency broker (not a marker maker or principal dealer) and takes buying or selling orders from US institutions

2000

• Private client stockbroking business sold to three other securities firms
• Right to use the Raphael and Zorn names assigned to one of the successor companies
• Remaining group companies re-named “Numis”
• Firm grows through recruitment

1998

• Recruitment of team experienced in institutional sales and market making
• Firm becomes market maker, specialising in companies involved in the Lloyd’s market
• Components now in place, on a small scale, of an institutional broking company: research, sales, market making and investment banking

1996

• Group listed on AIM
• Recruitment of new staff to corporate finance department
• Further recruitment of institutional sales force and analysts to provide dealing services and research in the secondary market

1993 onwards 

• Development of corporate finance business, especially after Lloyd’s of
• London market opened to corporate capital
• The Firm becomes a leading corporate finance adviser to this sub-sector and is instrumental in obtaining listings for several Lloyd’s vehicles, raising capital for such companies by way of new equity, and advising on mergers

Late 1980’s

• Merger of old-established private client stockbrokers and incorporation into Raphael Zorn Hemsley Limited (the “Firm”)
• New holding company put in place
• Private placing to raise new capital