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The number of investments made by Japanese banking and investment firms in blockchain related startups is well known. SBI Holdings, MUFJ, Mizuho Financial Group and others have invested in some of the leading cryptocurrency technology companies in the country. ( read original story ...)

In the last two decades, Japan’s central bank has revisited its economic policies in an effort to revive its sagging economy (EWJ) (DXJ). The country’s central bank had been using the unconventional strategy of implementing negative interest rates to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Bank of Japan starts its two-day monetary policy meeting (to March 16). THURSDAY, MARCH 16 LONDON - Bank of England rate decision and publication of its meeting minutes. BERN - Swiss National Bank monetary policy assessment. OSLO - Norway Central ... ( read original story ...)

“We must be fully alert to the buildup of risks related to non-performing assets, bond defaults, shadow banking and Internet finance,” said Li. Banking and securities regulators already have said their priority this year is reducing risk and watching ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan’s director has said that it’s important to constantly engage in taking measures against threats made to the blockchain or else it could impact the technology’s credibility and hinder its development. Speaking at the third meeting of ... ( read original story ...)

Kasikorn Bank Vice President Silawat Santiwisad pointed out that trade between Thailand and the ASEAN+3 group, which includes China, Japan and South Korea totaled up to 66 trillion baht last year. The figure has prompted the bank to develop a system ... ( read original story ...)

Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, is facing huge pressure from Germany's powerful Bundesbank, to start raising its key deposit rate – which sits at an emergency low of minus 0.4 per cent. Similarly, Japanese banks and insurance companies ... ( read original story ...)

Would you expect to read the following story in the New York Times, in July 2006? TOKYO, July 14 -- Economists applauded the Bank of Japan's interest rate increase, the first in six years, as a long-awaited signal that Japan's $4.6 trillion economy is ... ( read original story ...)

But it's now topped by an offer that just came out from a just-launched, savings-only division of San Francisco-based MUFG Union Bank. The new entity, PurePoint Financial, offers a rate of 1.25 percent on a savings deposit of at least $10,000, and 1.4 ... ( read original story ...)

He says contemporary Japanese photography is still an untapped niche in art ... “There are a lot of people in banking who are keen art collectors, and I have friends in finance who are interested in buying some work,” he says. “I’m a salesman ... ( read original story ...)

Yesterday Japan announced that they are accepting Bitcoin as legal tender in their monetary system, making them the first nation to legitimize the crypto-currency into their financial system. Now on Feb. 10, a blockchain based tech company in the city of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s core inflation has returned for the first time in more than a year owing to increased energy prices, giving signals that the country is on its path to reach its inflation target of 2%. Even though the unemployment rate dropped to 3%, its lowest ... ( read original story ...)