Tag: banking

Japan’s biggest banks have a $44 billion problem: how to sell stakes in their most important clients without losing their business. ( read original story ...)

State Street Corp. and S&P Global Inc. participated in a $15 million funding round for Lukka Inc., giving a boost to the U.S. cryptocurrency software and data provider that’s already working on a ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank Group Corp. shares surged as its paper profit from the initial public offering of DoorDash Inc. hit $11.2 billion, adding to gains from the prospect the Japanese company could attempt to go ... ( read original story ...)

The spread of the novel coronavirus may have slowed economies and closed many businesses worldwide, but it hasn't been a damper on a newly opened Tokyo sauna that caters to solo customers. The ... ( read original story ...)

According to Ben Armstrong, if you don't invest time in this industry, you might very well end up losing your hard-earned money ... ( read original story ...)

The logos of Airbnb are displayed at an Airbnb event in Tokyo, Japan, June 14, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato PARIS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union are so far apart in post-Brexit trade talks ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's ruling coalition on Thursday proposed tax breaks on low-emission cars and green investments in a suite of incentives worth up to $612 million, as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga puts carbon ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is likely to sell over $1 trillion of new government bonds this fiscal year to fund its huge stimulus packages, sources said, as the coronavirus crisis guts tax revenues and strains already ... ( read original story ...)

Stocks were mostly lower Thursday in Asia after weakness in technology and health services companies’ shares led an overnight decline on Wall Street. Benchmarks fell in Tokyo, Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is in talks with Indonesia about a potential $4 billion investment into the Southeast Asian nation's new sovereign wealth fund, Luhut Pandjaitan, the country's coordinating minister for maritime ... ( read original story ...)

Food delivery company DoorDash had a blockbuster first day of trading on Wednesday, sealing a lucrative investment for early backer SoftBank and making billionaires of its three Chinese-American ... ( read original story ...)

The total may even surpass ¥105 trillion, including ¥5 trillion set aside as reserve funds for costs related to the pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Business sentiment among large Japanese companies in the October-December period rose for the second straight quarter, remaining positive after a plunge earlier this year due to the fallout from the ... ( read original story ...)

Today’s Daily Dose dives deep into how cryptocurrency, long seen by many as a fad, is fast becoming a fact of life that could profoundly shape our financial future. ( read original story ...)

Japan's initial budget for fiscal 2021 will total more than 102.66 trillion yen ($986 billion), a record high for the ninth straight ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's initial budget for fiscal 2021 will total more than 102.66 trillion yen ($986 billion), a record high for the ninth straight year, mainly due to an increase in the amount of reserve funds to ... ( read original story ...)