TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's factory activity extended declines in September largely due to a sharper fall in output, as the world's third-largest economy struggles to stage a robust recovery from the ... ( read original story ...)
CEO Says Bitcoin Is Safer After Moving Firm’s Cash to Crypto
MicroStrategy Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Saylor says the Federal Reserve’s recent relaxing of its inflation policy helped convinced him to put the remainder of the enterprise-software ... ( read original story ...)
Venture Fund Backed by Skype Co-Founder Eyes Quick IPOs in Japan
Maxwell Imai Weiss, right, with Matt Sinks. Source: Pacific Bays Capital via Bloomberg “The IPO has effectively taken the role of billion-dollar funds in Japan for late-stage startup financing,” said ... ( read original story ...)
Banks’ AML ‘efficiency’: The FinCEN Files Horror Story And What We Can Learn For Crypto
The FinCEN Files are a traditional finance horror story. What can those in the crypto world learn from the recent revelations to prevent us from falling into the same trap of lax compliance? ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Suga and Xi look to hold first telephone call Friday
Nikkei has learned. The two leaders are expected to discuss such matters as cooperation on fighting the coronavirus. They may also discuss Xi's plans for a state visit to Japan, which was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan ready to join as permanent UN Security Council member
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Tuesday underlined Japan's willingness to contribute to global governance as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council as he made a ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto-Europe: Comprehensive European Regulation For Crypto Assets Has Been Presented
The European Commission has presented the so-called MiCA regulation. As a result, this creates a far-reaching and harmonized regulation on the European level for crypto assets, including many related ... ( read original story ...)
DeFi: The Crypto Hype Bubble which Shows No Sign of Slowing Down
The crypto industry is no stranger to hype and hyperbole. From the heady ICO boom of 2017, to much vaunted protocols which claim to have finally solved the dilemmas of decentralization, scalability ... ( read original story ...)
Here in Venezuela, Doctors Struggle to Access Aid From Crypto Platform
I only know one person who was able to register but has not received the confirmation email.” Venezuela has become a popular example of the power of crypto, which is sometimes more reliable than our ... ( read original story ...)
Buy Western Digital Stock, Analyst Says. Kioxia’s IPO Will Show Its True Valuation.
Kioxia is expected to go public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 6, in what will be the largest IPO year to date in Japan. The stock is on track to make its debut with a valuation of about $14 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan mulls tax breaks for foreign finance hires
Aiming to raise Japan’s status as a global financial center, the government and ruling parties plan to study a system to encourage the entry of overseas financial institutions and the hiring of ... ( read original story ...)
Jack Ma’s Ant Group lifts IPO funding target to $35 billion
Ant’s simultaneous listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai may mark the biggest IPO ever, topping Saudi Aramco’s record $29 billion sale. ( read original story ...)
Stimulus Checks From A Crypto Exchange; Bitcoin Rebound
CRYPTO MARKETS. Bitcoin broke through $11,000 Wednesday and fluctuated around that level the rest of the week, recovering about half of the value it lost during its crash t ... ( read original story ...)
Finance businesses moving to phase out coal
Japanese financial companies are moving to stop investing in or financing coal-fired power stations, in an effort to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan’s Kuroda Says Globalisation Will Be Sustained Despite COVID-19
Globalisation will be sustained and supply chains will be diversified as firms adjust to novel coronavirus disruption, Japan's central bank governor said on Friday, challenging an assumption the virus ... ( read original story ...)
The First Successes of This Crypto Marketplace and Plans For the Future
The global marketplace for goods, as the developers themselves call it, was one of the first to implement principles of work that make it possible to benefit not only sellers and intermediaries, but ... ( read original story ...)