The United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on a crypto mixer that it said was serving as a money laundering tool for hackers affiliated with the North Korean government.Crypto mixers are ...
BRIEF-Japan To Lift Assumed Rate For Debt-Servicing For 1St Time In 17 Yrs – Nikkei
JAPAN TO LIFT ASSUMED RATE FOR DEBT-SERVICING FOR 1ST TIME IN 17 YEARS - NIKKEI * JAPAN'S FINANCE MINISTRY WILL RAISE ASSUMED INTEREST RATE PAID ON BONDS IN GOVERNMENT'S ANNUAL BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR 1ST ...
IIFL Finance raises $50 million from Japan’s Mizuho Bank
The loan, priced at 120 basis points over Tokyo overnight average rate (Tonar), will be used for onward retail lending. One basis point is 0.01 percentage point. Tonar is at a negative 0.1%. However, ...
SoFi Is Exiting Crypto With Banking Regulators Stepping Up Scrutiny
SoFi Technologies Inc., the fast growing one-stop shop for financial-services products, is exiting crypto even with token prices surging because of increased scrutiny of the sector by banking ...
Wormhole raises $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, finalizing split from Jump Crypto amid firm’s recent pullback
On Wednesday, the project announced that it had drummed up $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, which makes it the largest funding round for a crypto project in 2023, according to Crunchbase’s ...
Why This Crypto Firm Wants to Invest 60% of Profits into a Universal Basic Income
The intersection of cryptocurrency and social responsibility took center stage in a recent discussion hosted by Roundtable anchor Rob Nelson and featuring JB, the founder and CEO of Kryotech.
Acctual raises $3.85M to help crypto companies better manage their bills
Acctual has raised $3.85 million in seed funding at a $15 million post-money valuation to help crypto startups manage their money, the company’s co-founder and CEO Atikh Bana exclusively told ...
Charlie Munger Had No Love for Crypto
Charlie Munger didn’t pull punches. One of his favorite punching bags was crypto. The vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway wouldn’t hesitate to give his rebuke of digital assets like bitcoin when asked ...
IPO Blasts Into Buy Range, Joining AI Race With Google, Microsoft
Alphabet has the Bard chatbot and Microsoft has Bing powered by ChatGPT. Now, 2021 IPO Monday.com has its own plans for more deeply weaving AI into its productivity platform, fueling a new buy zone ...
From Crypto To T-Bills: Inside Meow’s Hard Pivot
Prudent, because after the collapse of stablecoin TerraUSD in mid-May of 2022, they began hearing rumors that crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital would go bankrupt — which it soon did, eventually ...
Sri Lanka makes debt restructuring deal with Japan, other creditors
Debt-ridden Sri Lanka and its creditor nations, including Japan, reached a basic agreement on Wednesday over Colombo's debt restructuring, a senior Japanese Finance Ministry official said. The ...
Philippines’ SEC to block access to world’s largest crypto exchange Binance
The Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission has begun the process of blocking access to the world's largest crypto exchange Binance, whose chief last week stepped down and pleaded guilty to ...
Ailing Crypto Firm Zipmex Makes Another Attempt at Restructuring
Ailing crypto exchange Zipmex has proposed to repay creditors about 3.35 cents per dollar of claims initially as part of its latest restructuring offer, according to people familiar with the matter.
Crypto Price Prediction For 2024: Unveiling The Most Promising Cryptocurrency Investments
yPredict ($YPRED) is a new one-of-a-kind token that seamlessly integrates AI and predictive analytics, making it a promising crypto investment. Using its custom-built AI models, yPredict provides ...
Japan has a glut of 8.5 million akiya, empty ‘ghost houses’ left to rot. Now Airbnb wants to fill them with tourists.
Airbnb says it wants to partner with local governments to incentivize homeowners to renovate and turn their empty houses into a source of income.
Japanese bank regulators on alert for SVB-style rate risks
Even as Japan’s biggest banks churn out record profits and anticipate further gains from domestic rate increases, the country’s central bank warned in its recent Financial Stability Report that ...