Category: FINANCE

Crypto exchange OKX has applied for regulatory approval in France and plans to build out its European hub in Paris, making it the latest overseas crypto firm to pick the French capital as its base on ...

Tokyo-based VC firm W (formerly W ventures) announced on Tuesday that it has increased the fund size of W fund II from its initially-announced size of 5 billion yen to 7 billion yen. The fund ...

Japan stocks are thriving as demand from locals and foreigners rose and as the economic activity rebounded. The Nikkei 225 index was trading at ¥30,950, the highest level since 1990. In all, the index ...

Mizuho Financial Group Inc will buy U.S. M&A advisory firm Greenhill & Co Inc for $550 million including debt, the companies said on Monday, as Japan's No. 3 lender eyes a bigger share of the world's ...

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is set to become the third major Japanese bank to sell Additional Tier 1 bonds after Credit Suisse Group AG’s near-collapse set off a global fire sale, in the latest sign ...

Kiyohito Motoyama, Saiko Ishii, and Ryo Shiino take on newly created positions within the firm’s Logistics and Industrial, Asset Management, and Compliance divisions, respectively.

TOKYO, May 23 (Reuters): Japan's Nikkei share average pushed to a fresh 33-year high on Tuesday, helped by a weaker yen and gains for U.S. stock futures amid increased optimism about a debt ceiling ...

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday he was arranging to meet Sri Lanka's president in Japan this week. "Japan wants to contribute to Sri Lanka's debt restructuring," Suzuki told ...

Over the weekend, Tornado Cash, a so-called crypto tumbler that obfuscates the origins and destinations of cryptocurrency transactions, fell victim to a hostile takeover by a hacker who snatched control of the blockchain protocol by hijacking its ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in seven months in May, while the service-sector hit record growth, a survey showed on Tuesday, as the post-COVID recovery shored up business conditions. The au Jibun Bank flash ...

As part of these joint ventures, Frasers Hospitality has entered into two sale and purchase agreements to acquire its inaugural premium rental apartment assets in Shenzhen, China and Osaka, Japan with ...

Hacker stole around $400 million from crypto projects during 40 attacks in the first three months of 2023, blockchain intel firm TRM Labs said in a new report. This is a 70% decline from the Q1 of 2022. The average hack size also got smaller, according to ...

States are granting charters for crypto banks while the Federal Reserve is blocking access to its systems. At the legislative level, the bills in play have become bogged down in partisan politics and it’s looking less and less likely that any federal ...

Sony plans to retain 20% partial ownership in its Financial Services unit and sell of 80% of shares through an IPO. The company is also exploring potential tax-free options for the spin-off in Japan ...

Mizuho Bank's signboard is pictured in Tokyo, Japan, January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon ...

Turkey was 12th in Chainalysis’ 2022 crypto adoption ranking – currency woes and the pressing need to hedge and diversify are likely to push it up the list. An unexpected entry into my “watch the ...