The Finance Ministry says budget requests from Japan's ministries and agencies will top 110 trillion yen, or about 780 billion dollars, for the second year in a row.
Banking giant Mizuho issues Japan’s largest-ever EUR-pegged €800 million green bond
Tokyo-based banking and financial services company Mizuho Financial Group announced on September 5 the issuance of an €800 million green bond ...
Crypto real estate: the property market built on digital assets
Portugal’s first property sale in cryptocurrency might have looked unremarkable, but it didn’t feel that way to those who had been working for nearly a year to make it happen.
Crypto On Sept. 5: Bitcoin Below $20,000; Ether Fails To Break $1,600 Level
The crypto market comes on a bullish note Monday as Ether outperformed Bitcoin. ETH rose by 1.41%, while BTC was a tad bullish, up by 0.40%. In the last 24 hours, Ether failed to break the $1,600 ...
Crypto sceptics look to bend the ear of regulators in inaugural event this week
LONDON - Cryptocurrency critics, including economists and researchers, will gather in London and online this week to get their message across to regulators about the booming but volatile sector. Read ...
Elon Musk’s crypto interview was broadcast on the South Korean government’s YouTube channel that was hacked and renamed ‘SpaceX Invest’
The breach on Saturday morning is the fourth time in the last two weeks that a YouTube channel run by the South Korean government was hacked.
Japan’s annual budget requests for next fiscal year hit 110 trln yen – MOF
Japan's annual budget requests for the next fiscal year hit $784 billion as an expected increase in military outlays added to already rising debt-servicing and welfare costs, the Ministry of Finance ...
Japan’s Nikkei falls for fourth session on Wall Street weakness
Japan's Nikkei share average fell for a fourth straight session on Monday, tracking Wall Street's weak performance last week, amid absence of market-moving cues due to a U.S. market holiday. The ...
Crypto Could Be The ‘Linux of Finance’ By 2040, Says Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum co-founder and crypto rockstar Vitalik Buterin has a bright forecast for the cryptocurrency market volatility and said crypto could be the "Linux of Finance" by 2040. The Canadian programmer ...
Nikkei hits roughly 7-week low in morning on global economic concerns
Japan's key Nikkei index briefly hit a roughly seven-week low on Monday morning, as the increased possibility of interest rate hikes in the United States made some investors concerned about the future ...
Japanese banks offer advice on disaster-risk mitigation
Major Japanese banks are helping corporate clients prepare for the threat of natural disasters. That's as global warming accelerates the frequency of climate-related events.
Why the Yen Is So Weak and What That Means for Japan
The yen has weakened beyond 140 per dollar for the first time in almost a quarter century, mainly because Japan’s central bank is keeping interest rates at rock-bottom levels while the Federal Reserve ...
Cracks are appearing in DeFi, crypto’s ‘Wild West’
Watch the video to learn more about DeFi, how it works, and what’s next for the industry as regulators seek to clean it up.
UK forces crypto exchanges to report suspected sanction breaches
New rules in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cover all notionally valuable digital assets ...
Congress’ leading crypto skeptic is a Southern California congressman
Sherman, who chairs a House subcommittee on investor protection, may be the leading crypto skeptic on Capitol Hill. A growing movement in Congress wants to bring more regulation to the nearly ...
‘Blockchain is bunk’: Crypto critics find their voice
John Stark, founding chief of the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement, is joining other experts in a major gathering of crypto skeptics.