Tag: banking

Japan produced more than 100 IPOs annually through the early ... Among startup-heavy indexes, the Nikkei Jasdaq Stock Average marked an all-time high on Jan. 26. Although the blue chip Nikkei Stock Average has sunk 4% year to date, the Nikkei Jasdaq ... ( read original story ...)

A critical report by the group could result in sanctions that could include shunning Japanese banks out of the global banking network. “Even a single financial institution with low-level anti-money laundering and terrorist-financing measures is enough to ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei 225 has ridden the same roller-coaster ride that the rest of world markets have been on in the past several months: It saw gains of 25 percent between early September and late January, when the index topped 24,000 to establish its high ... ( read original story ...)

As it has multiplied, it has developed in different forms in different countries. But where is Japan in #MeToo? The answer is nowhere, really, and that for me is troubling. It is not as if Japan is some sort of nirvana, free of sexual harassment. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese telecommunications company NTT is hoping to bring an added dimension to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by projecting live sporting events with its 3D hologram technology. NTT has been working on a new system it calls "Kirari! For Arena ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top financial diplomat Masatsugu Asakawa said on Thursday that G20 finance leaders would raise the issue of cryptocurrencies at their meeting in Buenos Aires in March. Asakawa, vice finance minister for international affairs ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-based SoftBank has yet to send out so-called requests ... Getting involved early may help Japan’s biggest brokerage win a lucrative global coordinator role for the IPO, which could become the country’s largest debut share sale since NTT DoCoMo ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should consider buying foreign bonds as part of efforts to reflate the economy during Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s second term at the central bank helm, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. The BOJ is ... ( read original story ...)

Nobukazu Teranishi, an award-winning Japanese engineer whose innovations can be found in almost every digital image capturing device, says technical people should be more highly valued in his home country. In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review ... ( read original story ...)

But despite the popularity of internet banking, the retail bank experience in Japan appears little changed from a decade or two ago. Personal attention to the customer and a thick, sturdy passbook are still regarded as hallmarks of quality in Japan's banks ... ( read original story ...)

The central government has announced that Osaka will host the 2019 G20 summit next year. However the meeting of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors will be held in Fukuoka City. Both Fukuoka Prefecture and Aichi Prefecture were in ... ( read original story ...)

GIC Chief Executive Lim Chow Kiat said in an email reply to questions posed by Nikkei Asian Review that while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe administration's has implemented structural reforms, Corporate Japan needs to ensure sustainable changes for ... ( read original story ...)

GIC Chief Executive Lim Chow Kiat said in an email reply to questions from The Nikkei Asian Review that while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has implemented structural reforms, corporate Japan needs to ensure sustainable improvements. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's point man on currency diplomacy sees the ... "I cannot help but assess the [yen] movements as one-sided," Masatsugu Asakawa, vice minister of finance for international affairs, told The Nikkei in an interview Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Tuesday it would become the latest blue-chip firm to jockey for position in Japan's taxi and ride-hailing market, with plans for a joint venture to develop an artificial intelligence-based hailing system. ( read original story ...)

Japan's cryptocurrency industry has lacked a unified voice ... a member of both existing industry groups and will not be a part of the new organization. Nikkei group company QUICK holds an equity stake in bitFlyer. ( read original story ...)