Japan might spend $309.75 billion on defense between FY24 and FY28, compared with $122.48 billion during the previous five fiscal years. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Trading Bots Are Taking Over Telegram
This year’s rebound in cryptocurrencies is turning messaging platform Telegram into an unlikely marketplace for small traders fearful of missing out on the rally.
Crypto Firm Turns to Estonian Authorities After $37 Million Hack
CoinsPaid, the world’s biggest crypto payments provider, reported a $37 million hack it’s attributed to North Korea’s Lazarus Group to Estonian police. Most Read from BloombergLargest US Grid Declares ...
Sequoia Capital cuts crypto, ecosystem funds by over 50% as it continues to downsize
Sequoia Capital is the latest to pull back from crypto, paring down two major venture funds, including its crypto fund, in an effort to downsize.
A new crypto firm wants to scan your eyeballs – should you look away?
For critics, the ID process from Worldcoin is a privacy risk, for others it is financial security in the age of AI. We try it out ...
I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto
Tools for Humanity has an iris-scanning Orb that decides whether you're human or a robot—and then gives you crypto. But is Worldcoin worth the price?
Survey: NFT & Crypto Risk Fears Persist Among Consumers
The general public continues to view cryptocurrencies as precarious investments, with NFTs also considered an unwise move ...
Bank of Japan, in Surprise, Signals a Move Away From Easy Money
Japan’s central bank takes a step toward allowing interest rates to rise, saying it will be more flexible in managing its bond market. ( read original story ...)
Crypto sector is rife with ‘fraud’ and ‘hucksters,’ warns SEC chair Gary Gensler
The SEC chair told Bloomberg TV that cryptocurrency investors were not "getting full, fair, and truthful disclosure" from crypto platforms.
Aichi, land of the re-arising business events
Morgan Chaudeler, AICHI Sky Expo, and Thomas Vidal, Marriott International, speak about the importance of events to their respective venues. ( read original story ...)
Kim Kardashian Fans Adamant That She Met Ex Kanye West in Tokyo After Her New Instagram
The post in question featured the ceiling of a lavish hotel in Tokyo, Japan, shared by Kim, who is 42 years old. The photo Kim Kardashian shared displayed the stunning walls and contemporary ceiling of the lobby at Aman Tokyo, also known as "A Resort In ... ( read original story ...)
Japan military chiefs push government to deliver on promised counterstrike capability
Japanese military chiefs said Friday the country urgently needed a counterstrike capability amid what they said was the most dangerous security situation since World War Two and a "rapid tilt" in the ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan has its cake and eats it
Japan’s monetary policy is becoming even more unorthodox on the path to normality. Governor Kazuo Ueda on Friday shocked global markets by pledging more flexibility in the Bank of Japan’s yield curve control scheme, ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan decision: Here’s what analysts are saying after yield curve control move
The Bank of Japan took a key step toward dismantling its easy monetary policy by making its yield curve control more flexible.
The Bank of Japan Took This Surprise Decision. Why It’s Moving Markets.
The Bank of Japan has long been a global outlier in keeping monetary policy ultraloose but the central bank took a significant, and surprising, step toward changing that early Friday.
Ueda says flexible yield curve control doesn’t change Bank of Japan’s easy stance
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda said Friday that the bank's decision to make its yield curve control more flexible doesn't mean a shift of its easy monetary policy stance.