Category: FINANCE

Spectators from abroad will be barred from the Tokyo Olympics when they open in four months, the IOC and local organizers said Saturday. The decision was announced after an online meeting of the ... ( read original story ...)

Officials justified the widely-anticipated move saying the risk was too great to admit ticket holders from overseas during a pandemic. View on euronews ... ( read original story ...)

A magnitude 6.9 quake hit off the coast of northeastern Japan, briefly triggering a tsunami advisory for Miyagi prefecture and causing shaking in Tokyo.Initial damage reported from the earthquake that ... ( read original story ...)

Spectators from abroad will be barred from the Tokyo Olympics when they open in four months, the IOC and local organizers said Saturday.The decision was ... ( read original story ...)

A set of tweaks by the Bank of Japan designed to make monetary easing effective and sustainable could be a harbinger of a measured, l ... ( read original story ...)

The Menlo Park, California-based online brokerage added cryptocurrency trading features to its platform in 2018. ( read original story ...)

Imperii, an investment bank that focuses on the cryptocurrency industry, is looking to hire at least a dozen people this year to handle a flurry of deal activity that it’s expecting. ( read original story ...)

Beeple, together with digital artists such as Andres Resigner, Refik Anadol, Sara Ludy, and Kyle Gordon, are gearing up for an NFT charity auction. All of the proceeds will go to Open Earth Foundation ... ( read original story ...)

The states that tweeted the most about the digital assets in the last month include California, Oregon, and Washington. ( read original story ...)

A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. The BoJ unveiled a set of carefully crafted policy tweaks aimed at giving itself more flexibility to keep up its long quest to revive ... ( read original story ...)

One of the obstacles to crypto-currencies in the mainstream financial world is the absence of a neutral party to help banks settle trades in crypto by making sure that no counter-party reneges on a ... ( read original story ...)

An influential set of cryptocurrencies is under increasing scrutiny, and how it’s regulated will have major implications for digital tokens as a whole. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Olympics organisers will meet with Japanese government officials on Saturday, the local organising committee said, with discussion of whether to allow in foreign spectators expected to be on the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) – Financial leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations backed a new allocation of special drawing rights at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help low-income countries, ... ( read original story ...)

The vote marks only the fourth time an activist shareholder motion has won approval in Japan and the first at a major company that is a household name, albeit one sullied by a string of scandals. ( read original story ...)

This will be done by a new team that will explore additional services like lending against crypto collateral. "We are starting with the anchor in this space, which is custody," the head of BNY ... ( read original story ...)