Tag: banking

The incoming mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, thinks that schools should add cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to the curriculum. ( read original story ...)

That said, the metaverse is also a tremendous opportunity to blockchain and cryptoassets to move to the mainstream; let’s dive in. The promise of the metaverse is that it will provide users an ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: SoftBank Group Corp reported a record loss at its Vision Fund unit as the value of public holdings like Coupang Inc and Didi Global Inc plunged. ( read original story ...)

More than 20 countries agreed to phase out coal power at the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, but not Japan - a "leap backwards" for a country that once led the way on the Kyoto Protocol to reduce ... ( read original story ...)

Japan posted a current account surplus of 1,033.7 billion yen in September, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday. That missed ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank Group Corp. shares surged as much as 10% after the company said it would buy back as much as 1 trillion yen ($8.8 billion) of its own stock, reverting to a strategy that founder Masayoshi Son ... ( read original story ...)

The value of overall bank lending in Japan was up 0.9 percent on year in October, the Bank of Japan said on Tuesday - coming in at ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan's real wages declined in September for the first time in three months as inflation picked up faster than growth in nominal pay, the government said, a sign of global cost-push inflation ... ( read original story ...)

Mad Money’s Jim Cramer said on a recent episode of the Mad Money TV show that in all of his years, he's never seen people get excited about stocks the way they get excited about the likes of Bitcoin, ... ( read original story ...)

Industry groups are concerned about a “digital assets” provision that may require reporting cryptocurrency transactions to the Internal Revenue Service. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) -Proxy advisory firm ISS followed rival Glass Lewis & Co in recommending shareholders of Japan's Shinsei Bank Ltd vote for the lender's plan for a poison pill defence against an ... ( read original story ...)

The crypto industry has pledged to continue its fight against new tax rules included in the bipartisan infrastructure deal that awaits President Joe Biden's signature following its passage by the ... ( read original story ...)

Sotheby’s has sold $65 million of NFTs in 2021, while arch-rival Christie’s has sold more than $100 million of the new type of crypto asset. ( read original story ...)

A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple social media posts that claim it shows Indonesia's President Joko Widodo at the 2021 G20 summit in the Italian capital of Rome. The posts ... ( read original story ...)

Ether surpasses $4,700 for the first time while the market cap of the global crypto market blows past $3 trillion. ( read original story ...)

Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of overseas visitors to Japan set a new annual record of 31.9 million in 2019, the eighth straight year of growth. ( read original story ...)