The loan, priced at 120 basis points over Tokyo overnight average rate (Tonar), will be used for onward retail lending. One basis point is 0.01 percentage point. Tonar is at a negative 0.1%. However, ...
IOC lines up France to host 2030 Winter Olympics and Salt Lake City for 2034 edition
Salt Lake City being preferred as a shoo-in to host the 2034 Winter Olympics was expected. The surprise was the IOC favoring the French bid for the 2030 edition. The International Olympic Committee ... ( read original story ...)
Volcano Eruption in Japan Launches Ash and Rock Hundreds of Meters into Air
Japan is no stranger to seismic and volcanic activity: It lies along the so-called “Ring of Fire,” a chain of volcanoes, earthquake zones and ocean trenches that loops the edge of the Pacific Ocean — ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo to call governor race July 7 with incumbent Koike in focus
Tokyo will hold its gubernatorial race on July 7, 2024, the capital's election commission said Wednesday, with a focus on whether the ... ( read original story ...)
“Tokyo Vice” season 2 first look reveals new characters, new dangers
So it takes guts to end a season with a plethora of cliffhangers, as Tokyo Vice did last year. But fans of the ‘90s-set Japanese crime show (a Max original produced by Fifth Season and WOWOW, Japan’s ... ( read original story ...)
‘Large’ sea creature with 240 tentacles discovered as new species off coast of Japan
The St. George’s cross medusa jellyfish is considered “large,” measuring about 4 inches wide and about 3 inches tall, the study said. It has a circular body shape and about 240 tentacles. Its most distinctive feature is its bright red, “cross-shaped” stomach. ( read original story ...)
SoFi Is Exiting Crypto With Banking Regulators Stepping Up Scrutiny
SoFi Technologies Inc., the fast growing one-stop shop for financial-services products, is exiting crypto even with token prices surging because of increased scrutiny of the sector by banking ...
Wormhole raises $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, finalizing split from Jump Crypto amid firm’s recent pullback
On Wednesday, the project announced that it had drummed up $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, which makes it the largest funding round for a crypto project in 2023, according to Crunchbase’s ...
Why This Crypto Firm Wants to Invest 60% of Profits into a Universal Basic Income
The intersection of cryptocurrency and social responsibility took center stage in a recent discussion hosted by Roundtable anchor Rob Nelson and featuring JB, the founder and CEO of Kryotech.
Acctual raises $3.85M to help crypto companies better manage their bills
Acctual has raised $3.85 million in seed funding at a $15 million post-money valuation to help crypto startups manage their money, the company’s co-founder and CEO Atikh Bana exclusively told ...
Charlie Munger Had No Love for Crypto
Charlie Munger didn’t pull punches. One of his favorite punching bags was crypto. The vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway wouldn’t hesitate to give his rebuke of digital assets like bitcoin when asked ...
IPO Blasts Into Buy Range, Joining AI Race With Google, Microsoft
Alphabet has the Bard chatbot and Microsoft has Bing powered by ChatGPT. Now, 2021 IPO Monday.com has its own plans for more deeply weaving AI into its productivity platform, fueling a new buy zone ...
Swap London for Liverpool and Santorini for Paros: Ten holiday hotspots and the (often cheaper and less crowded) ‘duplicates’ taking the internet by storm. Are you tempted?
Sapporo is a 'wonderful ski destination that’s a little further afield than the Alps', says Expedia, which noticed a 38 per cent increase in flight searches to the Japanese destination - a 'dupe' for ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese volcano spews ash and smoke in spectacular eruption
Footage captured by the Japanese Coast Guard shows the volcano belching gas and molten material on Niijima island, some 100 miles south of the capital Tokyo, on 23 November. The Japanese Coast Guard ... ( read original story ...)
From Crypto To T-Bills: Inside Meow’s Hard Pivot
Prudent, because after the collapse of stablecoin TerraUSD in mid-May of 2022, they began hearing rumors that crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital would go bankrupt — which it soon did, eventually ...
Sri Lanka makes debt restructuring deal with Japan, other creditors
Debt-ridden Sri Lanka and its creditor nations, including Japan, reached a basic agreement on Wednesday over Colombo's debt restructuring, a senior Japanese Finance Ministry official said. The ...