Category: FINANCE

They fear market-driven corporate governance reforms and structural changes to the country's economy will stall or even backslide to the "bad old days" of Japanese industrial policy prior to the 1990s ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will this month sell up to 1.03 billion Japan Post Holdings shares, which at Wednesday's closing price would be worth 952 billion yen (US$8.52 billion), a filing showed, to help with rebuilding ... ( read original story ...)

British cyclist Elinor Barker is revealing new details about her time at the Tokyo Olympics. The 27-year-old, who won a silver medal in the women's team pursuit track cycling event, shared Tuesday ... ( read original story ...)

Axie Infinity, the most popular crypto-based game and blockchain-using metaverse project, hit a $30 billion valuation. Its native token AXS rose past $110 this weekend, and it is currently trading at ... ( read original story ...)

I don't have a strong view that this is some enormous waste or this is some phenomenal opportunity,' Einhorn said. ( read original story ...)

CoinSwitch Kuber, an Indian crypto exchange, raised $260 million at a $1.9 billion valuation co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures.Why it matters: All crypto investments are done against ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese medical devices maker, PHC Holdings, has priced a downsized IPO at the low end of the indicated price range of ¥3,250– ¥3,500 to raise ¥71.8bn (US$640m), according to IFR. The company had ... ( read original story ...)

Hi all, this is Zheping in Hong Kong. Crypto holders have long tried to call China’s bluff on Bitcoin. That’s looking like a bad bet. But ... ( read original story ...)

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), a noted friend in Congress of the cryptocurrency industry, introduced a new bill Tuesday that aims to provide a framework for nascent digital token networks.State of ... ( read original story ...)

By Kosaku Narioka KKR & Co.-backed PHC Holdings Corp. said it plans to sell shares worth 82.55 billion yen ($740.6 million) in an initial ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Nikkei stock benchmark ends lower on Oct. 6, extending its losing streak to eight days for the first time since July 2009, as sentiment was hurt by deepening uncertainty over the global ... ( read original story ...)

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Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinSwitch Kuber said on Wednesday it had raised over $260 million at a valuation of $1.9 billion, underscoring the rise in popularity of crypto trading in the country ... ( read original story ...)

Many of these tokens do meet the tests of being an investment contract or a note or some other form of security,' Gensler said Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

Japanese firms have no pressing need to raise wages because they retained jobs during last year's pandemic-induced economic slump, and thus do not need to fill job vacancies as quickly as US companies ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Shinsei Bank Ltd is forming a panel of independent directors to weigh its response to a takeover bid from SBI Holdings, so as to ensure the "fairness and objectivity of the evaluation," it ... ( read original story ...)