Category: FINANCE

The head of Japan's regional bank lobby on Wednesday urged the central bank to be cautious about deepening negative interest rates due to the "very big" impact it would have on lenders' earnings. As ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei index inched down on Wednesday, dragged by chip-related stocks which tracked U.S. peers, though cyclical shares capped losses on prospects of a domestic economic recovery ... ( read original story ...)

Australia broke with tradition to hold its swimming trials just six weeks before the start of the 2020 Olympics and former world champion Giaan Rooney said the move could reap rich rewards in Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

As Wall Street giants and retail investors flood the crypto market, traders are trying to predict whether ethereum will continue to outperform ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's exports rose 49.6per cent in May from a year earlier, Ministry of Finance data showed on Wednesday. TOKYO: Japan's exports rose 49.6per cent in May from a year earlier, Ministry of Finance ... ( read original story ...)

How can crypto custodians, crypto trading exchanges, and (ultimately) crypto banking institutions prove to external parties that reserves are indeed what they say they are? This is a pivotal question ... ( read original story ...)

(Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images) A few months after Goldman GS Sachs relaunched its crypto trading desk and started providing bitcoin exposure to key clients, it is now expanding into ether, the ... ( read original story ...)

Hedge fund titan Stanley Druckenmiller is moving further into crypto after participating in a $70 million Series B for Bitwise Asset Management. ( read original story ...)

Dogecoin has seen its value increase exponentially over the past year, but is it an asset worthy of serious consideration or a speculative bubble waiting to burst? One analyst thinks the latter. ( read original story ...)

British billionaire, Alan Howard, is said to be making 'massive moves' into the crypto space. Alan Howard, the founder of and former CEO of the hedge fund Brevan Howard, is now making huge moves into ... ( read original story ...)

Elon Musk announced that Tesla would no longer accept Bitcoin as a form of payment because of its environmental impact. While there had been previous grumblings about the energy needed to mine Bitcoin ... ( read original story ...)

Photographer Roger Kisby documented the thousands of crypto fans who flocked to Miami for Bitcoin 2021, America’s first major tech conference since the pandemic started. ( read original story ...)

Row was spotted on the fundraising circuit in Miami chatting with Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY.) — a known Bitcoin bull ... ( read original story ...)

Kamiya Naoki has been named as new director of programming at Tokyo Filmex, a Tokyo-based festival with a strong focus on Japanese and Asian independent cinema. This year’s Filmex will run Oct. 31-Nov ... ( read original story ...)

Charlotte Henshaw wants to cook up a storm in Tokyo and says ParalympicsGB’s food-loving canoeists couldn’t be hungrier for glory, writes Will Jennings. ( read original story ...)

The cryptocurrency was endorsed by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones. Bitcoin has increased in price following a month of decline in May. ( read original story ...)