Category: FINANCE

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 ...)

Investors are optimistically anticipating the first American exchange-traded crypto products will be approved by the SEC after a leadership change at the commission introduced a more favorable hearing ... ( read original story ...)

Didi is targeting an IPO as early as this summer at a valuation above the $62 billion it secured in its last funding round, Bloomberg said. ( read original story ...)

The Ministries of Finance of Ukraine and Japan will begin negotiations to update the 1986 Convention on Avoidance of Double Taxation on March 22. "Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average and its largest-weighted firm, Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing Co., tumbled in Tokyo after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly tweaked its stock-buying program to only ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan on Friday maintained its negative interest rate and tweaked its monetary easing programme as it battles to boost inflation and shore up the pandemic-hit economy. The adjustment, ... ( read original story ...)