After months of conducting experiments on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the Bank of Japan has announced that it will be launching a pilot program for the digital yen in April 2023. This move ...
Japan Announces Launch of New CBDC Pilot This April
Japan joins a host of countries pushing ahead with plans for a digitized national currency, announcing a new pilot this spring.
US crypto clampdown promises benefits for Coinbase
America’s top markets regulator has decided that most crypto companies can’t be trusted to look after investors’ assets. This is a less-than-shocking conclusion to anyone who’s been following crypto ...
Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon Tapped Hoard of 10,000 Bitcoin Via Swiss Bank, SEC Says
Crypto fugitive Do Kwon and the firm he founded transferred over 10,000 Bitcoin out of their doomed project and turned some of the tokens into cash via a Swiss bank, the Securities & Exchange ...
Japan’s Newest Billionaire Masters The Science Of Turning Waste Into Wealth
Daiei Kankyo's shares are up nearly 30% since it debuted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, making Fumio Kaneko, the company’s cofounder and president, the country’s newest billionaire.
Transition finance: How Tokyo will drive Asia’s net-zero transition
How to finance the world’s transition to a greener future is one of the most important dialogues of this millennia. A critical question is how to raise the enormous funds needed to decarbonize ...
Japan Will Launch Pilot for Issuing Digital Yen In April
Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28. Japan will launch a pilot programme in April to test the use of its version of the central bank ...
Crypto: How to get funding for your tech startup
Female entrepreneurs who want to entice new venture capital funding for their web3 technology start-ups face an overwhelmingly male-dominated environment. Yahoo Finance speaks to a leading female ...
Japan’s virtual YouTuber management agency Cover files for IPO valued at $320M
See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-based Cover, the startup offering management production services of VTubers (short for “virtual YouTubers”), announced on Friday that its IPO application ...
Japan stocks lower at close of trade; Nikkei 225 down 0.66%
Japan stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Transportation Equipment, Warehousing and Banking sectors led shares lower. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 fell 0.66%. The ...
Exclusive-Crypto giant Binance moved $400 million from U.S. partner to firm managed by CEO Zhao
Zhao Changpeng, founder and chief executive officer of Binance attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris ...
SEC Sues Over TerraUSD Stablecoin That Rocked Crypto
The US Securities and Exchange Commission accused crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon and the firm he co-founded of a fraud involving the failed TerraUSD stablecoin.Most Read from BloombergChina Hits Back at ...
Japan finance minister says BOJ nominees picked with eye on price goal
Japan's government picked academic Kazuo Ueda as new central bank governor on expectations he can help keep inflation on target and sustain economic and wage growth, finance minister Shunichi Suzuki ...
Before investing in crypto, check out California’s new scam tracker
The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation has compiled a searchable collection of complaints about apparent crypto scams.
Terra founder Do Kwon charged with fraud over its $40 billion crypto crash
The SEC accuses Terraform and Kwon of misleading investors about the stability of TerraUSD, noting they failed to inform investors that the price of the coin falling below its dol ...
MC Digital Realty Expands Osaka Footprint, Launches Fourth Data Centre at Osaka Campus
MC Digital Realty, a 50/50 joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty providing a full suite of data center solutions in Japan, announced today the official opening of KIX13, the ...