Aug.28 -- Komal Sri-Kumar, president at Sri-Kumar Global Strategies, discusses the outlook for Japan’s economy and progress of Bank of Japan monetary policy. He speaks with David Gura on "Bloomberg Surveillance." ( read original story ...)
RPT-Tokyo Stock Exchange hopes new entrants can revive stagnant solar trust markets
and Renewable Japan Energy Infrastructure Fund Inc - have mainly drawn interest from individual investors. Two of the trusts are trading below their initial public offering prices, while Ichigo Green is trading 0.5 percent above the IPO price as of Friday. ( read original story ...)
Boeing, Japan Investment Adviser Finalize Order For 10 737 MAX 8 Airplanes
Japan Investment Adviser Co., Ltd. (JIA) is an emerging financial services provider with a diverse business scope that ranges from operating leases to renewable energy and investment banking services, such as IPO and M&A advisory. JIA´s mainstay is the ... ( read original story ...)
Cashing Out of Unicorns Gets Hard
A “direct listing” is not an IPO. It bypasses underwriters and their hefty fees and ... and opportunities that catch his eye in the US, Europe, Japan, and occasionally China. WOLF STREET is the successor to his first platform… TP-Title-7-small ... ( read original story ...)
Week In Review: China’s Life Science Deals Top $1.4 Billion For Week
Arcus will pay $18.5 million upfront for rights to GLS-010 in North America, Europe, Japan and other unspecified territories ... Shanghai's Zai Lab has officially announced its IPO by filing an initial prospectus with the US SEC. According to the ... ( read original story ...)
The Rise Of The Founder-CEO Firms
According to Ovidiu Patrascu, Sustainable Investment Analyst at Schroders, the tendency is more common among initial public offerings (IPO) with 30% of the companies ... followed by China (8%), Japan (7%) and Europe (6%), and the majority operate in ... ( read original story ...)
Founders lead growing proportion of listed companies
“As a result, it is increasingly likely that the founder will still be in charge by the time IPO scale is reached ... followed by China (8%), Japan (7%) and Europe (6%), and the majority operate in the technology, pharmaceuticals and retail ... ( read original story ...)
DB11 drives Aston Martin back into black in first half of year
They have a whole raft of possibilities, of which one is an IPO," he told Reuters ... has ploughed resources into boosting its market share in the United States and Japan since the June 23 referendum last year to mitigate against any risks around the ... ( read original story ...)
Under pressure
The consortium also includes US private equity firm KKR as well as the state-backed Innovation Network Corporation of Japan and the Development Bank ... the Warsaw Stock Exchange following a successful IPO. * Excellent quarterly results from USA ... ( read original story ...)
Tokai Tokyo Financial : Announces Granting of Stock Options (Stock Acquisition Rights)
Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings, Inc. (the Company) announces that the meeting of its Board of Directors held today determined in concrete the matter regarding the offer of stock acquisition rights to be issued as stock options to such parties that include ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei eases, insurers skid on Harvey impact fears
TOKYO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged lower on Monday, as investors assessed the impact of a weaker dollar following a central bank conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as well as the damage from Tropical Storm Harvey. Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Japan in talks to export defense aircraft to UAE
TOKYO -- Japan could be on the verge of exporting its first piece of finished defense equipment. The government is considering sales of the Air Self-Defense Force's latest transport aircraft, the C-2, to the United Arab Emirates, The Nikkei learned on ... ( read original story ...)
Killer robots: Labor-saving tech may bust Japan’s jobs boom
Robots could perform 30% of roughly 2,000 unique job activities humans are paid to do, joint research by The Nikkei and the Financial Times shows. In Japan, that share tops 50%. Recruit Works Institute, part of Tokyo-based Recruit Holdings, estimates that ... ( read original story ...)
Japan carmakers taking $12.8bn-plus hit on Takata recalls
TOKYO -- Losses sustained by Japanese automakers from the recall of faulty Takata air bags are slated to top 1.4 trillion yen ($12.8 billion), according to figures that include an estimate from Subaru, the last of the pack to release such a number. ( read original story ...)
In defense of Japan’s misunderstood young generation
Ask someone for examples of young Japanese who are known internationally, they might name a few athletes -- at best. Ask them to name some young Japanese entrepreneurs, and they are likely to come up empty. There is a widespread perception that the youth ... ( read original story ...)
Mizuho Taps IBM Japan To Enhance Its Risk Management Efforts
Mizuho Bank and IBM Japan announced Thursday (Aug. 24) Mizuho Bank had begun operations toward more advanced and efficient risk management. The financial institution is employing cognitive technology to take measures against financial crimes such as ... ( read original story ...)