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Japan's benchmark Nikkei average closed down 0.03 percent at 28,948.73 on Friday, while the broader Topix shed 0.14 percent at 1,953.96. TOKYO, June 11 (Reuters) - Japan's benchmark Nikkei average The ... ( read original story ...)

If anyone knows how to deploy excess deposits, it should be Japanese banks, who have wrestled for decades with cash hoards and ultra-low rates. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (8306.T) is now planning a $9 ... ( read original story ...)

Parallel Tokyo-based Parallel, the Japanese startup behind a voice chat app under the same name, announced today that it has secured 1.2 billion yen (about $11 million US) in a ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese shares inched down in seesaw trading on Friday as technology stocks pulled back from early gains, with investors remaining cautious about the pace of domestic economic recovery. TOKYO, June ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s most powerful government ministry doesn’t have one of the world’s biggest problems on its radar screen, according to a former top official at the ministry. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso declined to comment on an independent probe concluding that the trade ministry had colluded with Toshiba ... ( read original story ...)

Over 12,000 people went to the Bitcoin 2021 Conference in Miami last weekend. Photos from the event show packed nightclubs and no one wearing masks. ( read original story ...)

ForUsAll Inc., a 401(k) provider, will let workers in retirement plans it administers to invest up to 5% of their contributions in the leading cryptocurrencies. ( read original story ...)

Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing company, unveiled filings for a public share offering in the US, setting out the financial damage the pandemic did to its business last year and the strength of ... ( read original story ...)

Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride-hailing company, filed Thursday to go public in the U.S. in what is expected to be one of the year's largest initial public offerings in tech. Didi, which filed ... ( read original story ...)

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell says he's reconsidering how the cryptocurrency exchange will go public in light of Coinbase's choppy direct listing. ( read original story ...)

French startup Ledger has raised a $380 million Series C funding round led by 10T Holdings. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $1.5 billion. Other investors in the ... ( read original story ...)

A bitcoin bear market could be on the way as the demand from big investors to support the cryptocurrency — a key narrative of the bulls — is just not there, according to JPMorgan analyst Nikolaos ... ( read original story ...)

International banking regulators’ decision to classify Bitcoin as the riskiest of assets dragged cryptocurrencies further into the mainstream financial world. ( read original story ...)

Manhattan Solar Partners, LLC has announced plans to construct the biggest renewable-powered cryptocurrency mining data center in the USA. ( read original story ...)

Millionaire millennials have a large share of their wealth in cryptocurrency, according to a new financial survey. Nearly half of millennial millionaires, 47 per cent, have at least a quarter of their ... ( read original story ...)