After a rush of momentum to close out last year, the industry is pondering its next steps across AI, gaming, and more.
Crypto and fintech are enjoying a Trump bump, but how long will it last?
Reflections from a dinner with top fintech and crypto firms.
Japan’s Idemitsu to build lithium sulphide plant to help support Toyota’s EV plans
Japan's No.2 oil refiner, Idemitsu Kosan plans to build a large-scale plant for lithium sulphide, a key material for all-solid-state batteries, at its Chiba refinery, near Tokyo, the company ...
FBI accuses North Korean-backed hackers of stealing $1.5 billion in crypto from Dubai-based firm
The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hackers of conducting one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency publicly known, seizing some $1.5 billion worth of ethereum from a Dubai-based firm. The theft ...
Stock markets look risky and crypto threatens dollar dominance, billionaire investor Paul Singer says
Elliott Management founder Paul Singer said investors are complacent, AI buzz is overblown, and crypto may threaten the dollar's global power.
North Korea behind $1.5 billion crypto theft, FBI confirms
North Korean hackers were behind the theft of $1.5 billion of virtual assets last week from Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said, marking the ...
Japan Post Bank to conduct secondary share offering of up to $4.22 billion
Japan Post Holdings plans to sell its shares in Japan Post Bank in a secondary share sale worth as much as 630 billion yen ($4.22 billion), a regulatory filing showed on Thursday. The sale, first ...
Japan Post Plans Sale of $4.2 Billion Stake in Banking Unit
Japan Post Holdings Co. plans to sell a stake in Japan Post Bank Co. that could raise ¥630 billion ($4.2 billion), the latest disposal in the former state-run giant’s decade-long privatization efforts ...
Japan economic panel calls for ‘bold steps’ to spur investments
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's economic advisory panel called on Thursday for "bold policy steps" to promote domestic investments as the United States and other global powers scramble to ...
Mizuho Bank confirms ¥66 million stolen from safe deposit boxes
Mizuho Bank officials said Thursday that the total amount of cash stolen by a former employee from clients' safe deposit boxes was ¥66 million ($440,733).
Adnoc signs agreement to supply Osaka Gas from Ruwais LNG project
Adnoc has signed a sales and purchase agreement with Osaka Gas for the supply of up to 800,000 tonnes per annum (mtpa) of liquefied natural gas from its Ruwais LNG project in Abu Dhabi. The deal, ...
Don’t Call it Crypto: How This Founder Used Stablecoin to Build a New Cross-Border Payment Network
That’s why today, Toffa runs Mural Pay, a cross-border payment facilitation platform that can help businesses make payments more quickly than many traditional methods he says. This is especially ...
$1.4 Billion Crypto Heist Traced To Hackers Breaching SafeWallet
The malicious Javascript code used in the attack could secretly modify transactions for SafeWallet, a cryptocurrency wallet provider.
Metaplanet Snaps Up 135 Bitcoin for $96,000 Each—Just Before Price Crash
The Japanese firm nonchalantly added another $13 million worth of Bitcoin to its holdings, hours before Bitcoin's price declined.
North Korean hackers pull off the biggest heist of all-time, stealing $1.5 billion in crypto
State-sponsored North Korean hackers stole $1.5 billion in crypto from a Dubai exchange. The heist is the biggest in history and comes as the Korean economy continues to vastly underperform. The value of that haul,
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