Tag: banking

Japanese authorities announced today that the country’s borders will be closed to all foreign visitors from December 28 until the end of January, after a new strain of COVID-19 virus was found in ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency trading platform Livecoin claims that it has been hacked after the crypto community noticed the price of bitcoin shoot up to half a million dollars. Meanwhile, users are complaining ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has decided to ban all new entries of foreign nationals from Dec. 28 to the end of January following the detection of a new variant of the coronavirus in arrivals from Britain, Nikkei reported ... ( read original story ...)

Bitcoin touched another all-time price high at $24,662 per coin, while many other crypto assets rebounded from the previous day’s slump. Ethereum is still down over 4% the last seven days and is ... ( read original story ...)

The head of the Russian parliamentary committee on financial markets and the country’s first crypto law’s author is forecasting a “surge in token ... ( read original story ...)

Top U.S. financial regulators are warning firms behind an important part of the cryptocurrency market to tighten protections against money laundering. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei share average rose 0.53% by midday to 26,665.72, edging closer to Monday’s high of 26,905, its highest level since early 1991. The broader Topix gained 0.56% to 1,775.18. Rollouts of ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks ended nominally lower on Friday after thin trade ... it does not cover the nation’s much larger and influential finance sector. And, Brussels has made no decision yet on whether to grant ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Stock Exchange said on Friday it will gradually remove companies with market capitalisation of less than 10 billion yen ($96.59 million), or about 1 percent of all listed shares, from its ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese shares ended mixed in holiday-thinned trade on Friday but some investors bought pro-cyclical stocks that are expected to perform well next year as the global economy recovers from the ... ( read original story ...)

At closing bell, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average advanced 143.56 points, or 0.54%, to 26,668.35. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 9.06 points, or ... ( read original story ...)

Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin posted on message on its official website on Christmas Eve claiming it was hacked and lost control of some of its servers, warning customers to stop using its ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency companies are willing to accept regulations, but in a way that protects innovation, not fights it, Galaxy Digital founder Michael Novogratz said. ( read original story ...)

The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency platform Ripple, its CEO, and its chairman, for illegally selling unregistered securities worth $1.3 billion, the ... ( read original story ...)

Moving through the high-level confusion of an emergent field of digital assets during a pandemic presented unique challanges. ( read original story ...)

Japan trade balance and current account stay in surplus. Japan central bank balance sheet is spiking as debt to GDP hits record high. ( read original story ...)