Tag: banking

Finance Minister Taro Aso and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda joined the videoconference, with debt relief for developing countries on the agenda, a Japanese government official said. Finance ... ( read original story ...)

The last major chip company IPO was nearly a decade ago. The dry spell could end with Arm Holdings, whose chips power 95% of the world’s smartphones and tablets. ( read original story ...)

The government on Friday decided on a plan to spend about ¥1.6 trillion over a five-year period from fiscal 2021 for reconstruction measures related to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The ... ( read original story ...)

On Wednesday, July 15, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) used the “Emergency Declaration National Interest Action Code for COVID-19 2020 for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) under the ... ( read original story ...)

As political bets go, the one Japan’s Shinzo Abe made on Donald Trump in 2016 is proving to be a mistake of historic proportions. No world leader was quicker in getting to Trump Tower in New York to ... ( read original story ...)

"Now, if you're not familiar, a Bitcoin scam is anything involving Bitcoin," joked Stephen Colbert the next evening, also saving a bit of that snark for the Bad Blue Bird Website itself. "Twitter CEO ... ( read original story ...)

While Singapore has been overtaken by the Japanese cities Yokohama at 10th, Osaka at 12 and Nagoya at 13, living costs have remained largely steady and it remains a costly location due to the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will look closer into whether to issue central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the government said in its annual policy roadmap, a sign that Tokyo may be warming to the idea as the coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will look closer into whether to issue central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in future, the government said in its annual policy roadmap, a sign that Tokyo may be warming to the idea as the ... ( read original story ...)

PayPal said it hopes the European Commission will create a set of rules that are 'technology agnostic' and can encourage competition. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group-backed U.S. biotech startup Relay Therapeutics gained 75% on its trading debut on Nasdaq, raising hopes for a recovery in the performance of Softbank's $100 billion Vision ... ( read original story ...)

Major Japanese banks saw record demand for the corporate loans they offer in the three months to July, a central bank survey showed on Friday, as companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic scrambled to ... ( read original story ...)

A Twitter hack hits the platform’s most famous users, Netflix gets a co-CEO and Revel’s mopeds are coming to San Francisco. Here’s your Daily Crunch for . The big story: High-profile Twitter accounts ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Some of the highest-profile Twitter accounts, including former President Barack Obama and Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, were subject to a breathtaking hack on Wednesday ... ( read original story ...)

A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used the accounts — some with millions of followers — to spread a cryptocurrency scam. Apple, Elon ... ( read original story ...)

Hackers promoting crypto scams took over a number of high-profile Twitter accounts Wednesday, including Bill Gates, Kanye West and Elon Musk, who has been a frequent target of would-be crypto scammers ... ( read original story ...)