The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Friday announced its decision to scale back Covid-19 funding support for large companies while maintaining its monetary policy and support for small and midsize firms. The ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan not headed for normalization like US, Europe: Kuroda
The Bank of Japan is not headed toward policy normalization like the U.S. and European central banks as its 2 percent inflation targe ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka: 27 people feared dead after blaze at psychiatric clinic in Japan
At least 27 people were feared dead after a fire in a psychiatric clinic in Osaka, western Japan, with police reportedly investigating arson as a possible cause. The blaze started on the fourth floor ... ( read original story ...)
Editorial: Japan govt’s end to suit over bureaucrat’s suicide seen as attempt to hide truth
The Japanese government has made a turnaround and fully accepted a compensation claim filed by the widow of a bureaucrat who killed himself after bein ... ( read original story ...)
Payments start-up Checkout.com poaches Meta crypto exec to lead product strategy
Checkout.com, a $15 billion payments start-up based in Britain, has hired Meta executive Meron Colbeci as its chief product officer. ( read original story ...)
Tether’s CEO: from IT sales to calling the shots in crypto land
Jean-Louis van der Velde’s career offered few clues that he would become a key figure in fast-growing industry ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan to scale back pandemic-era economic support
Japan’s central bank kept its interest rates on hold on Friday as expected but announced it would start winding down its bond purchasing programme © Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan trims COVID-19 funding support, maintains easing policy
The Bank of Japan decided Friday to trim its COVID-19 funding support for large companies but will keep a scaled-back version to assi ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ Decides to Taper Corporate Debt Buying, Scale Back Pandemic-Relief Funding
The Bank of Japan on Friday decided to taper its corporate debt purchases to pre-pandemic levels and scale back some of its emergency funding scheme upon reaching the March 2022 deadline. As widely ... ( read original story ...)
SK networks signs an MOU with T-GAIA the largest mobile phone retailer in Japan on ICT business development.
SK networks, the headquarters and subsidiaries, has been engaged in ICT business including ICT device distribution, communications network operation and ICT idle asset management. The company is now ... ( read original story ...)
The Crypto Market Pullback Is Far From Over
Lower trading volumes and measures to control inflation add to signals that Bitcoin and other digital assets could be headed for a reckoning. ( read original story ...)
What You Missed in Crypto Today: Michael Jordan’s HEIR, Jerome Powell, Crypto Ad Ban
In the latest Crypto Minute, Ross Mac dived into Michael Jordan’s step into the crypto space, Fed chair Jerome Powell and a U.K. watchdog’s targeting of some crypto ads. ( read original story ...)
Millennial millionaires plan to add more crypto in 2022, CNBC Millionaire Survey finds
Most millennial millionaires have the bulk of their wealth in crypto, and they're planning to add more in 2022 despite the recent price declines, according to the CNBC Millionaire Survey. Fully 83% of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s agricultural exports exceed ¥1 tril for 1st time
The annual value of Japan's food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries exports exceeded 1 trillion yen ($8.7 billion) for the first time in 2021, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Thursday. ( read original story ...)
The CEO of Ether Capital flags 5 crypto-market trends to expect in 2022 — including a breakout for solana and a rocky start for ether
Brian Mosoff, the CEO of Ether Capital, shared why he thinks solana is a top altcoin and named four other crypto-market trends to watch for in 2022. ( read original story ...)
Bankers quietly mould crypto innovations for their own use
No one expects treasurers to dance with the crypto kids. But these days something striking is quietly happening on Wall Street: some grown-up bankers are starting to offer those conservative ... ( read original story ...)