Tag: crypto

Profits at Chinese industrial firms in November rose 15.5% as compared with a year earlier, according to data released by the country's National Bureau of Statistics over the week ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s push to make itself a more attractive financial hub faces a taxing problem if it is to stop the drip-drip departure of finance professionals to other cities in Asia. ( read original story ...)

The approval rating of Suga's cabinet sank to 42% in a weekend Nikkei/TV Tokyo survey -- down 16 percentage points from the previous poll, taken in November. Disapproval climbed 16 points to 48%. The ... ( read original story ...)

Coinbase, Kraken, and other crypto exchanges are pushing back against a US Treasury proposal to require them to log personal details for transactions. ( read original story ...)

Janet Yellen, who’s been nominated to serve as Treasury secretary in Biden’s administration, has in recent years cautioned investors over Bitcoin, saying it was a 'highly speculative asset' and 'not a ... ( read original story ...)

Integrate with the existing financial system's rules? Or choose to fight for its anti-status quo principles? That's the question. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka have thrown their hats into ... inheritance tax exemptions for foreign assets and let skilled finance workers remain exempt regardless of the length of their residency. ( read original story ...)

The top U.S. banking regulator is concerned that the Biden administration may roll back some cryptocurrency regulations aimed at protecting consumers. This includes allowing national banks to custody ... ( read original story ...)

After a crazy year with predictably strong growth in decentralized finance (DeFi) and store-of-value (SoV) crypto assets generally, things are about to get weird. Diversification is the only way to ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese authorities announced today that the country’s borders will be closed to all foreign visitors from December 28 until the end of January, after a new strain of COVID-19 virus was found in ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency trading platform Livecoin claims that it has been hacked after the crypto community noticed the price of bitcoin shoot up to half a million dollars. Meanwhile, users are complaining ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has decided to ban all new entries of foreign nationals from Dec. 28 to the end of January following the detection of a new variant of the coronavirus in arrivals from Britain, Nikkei reported ... ( read original story ...)

Bitcoin touched another all-time price high at $24,662 per coin, while many other crypto assets rebounded from the previous day’s slump. Ethereum is still down over 4% the last seven days and is ... ( read original story ...)

The head of the Russian parliamentary committee on financial markets and the country’s first crypto law’s author is forecasting a “surge in token ... ( read original story ...)

Top U.S. financial regulators are warning firms behind an important part of the cryptocurrency market to tighten protections against money laundering. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei share average rose 0.53% by midday to 26,665.72, edging closer to Monday’s high of 26,905, its highest level since early 1991. The broader Topix gained 0.56% to 1,775.18. Rollouts of ... ( read original story ...)