Tag: crypto

Japanese robo-advisor WealthNavi Inc. is set to debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday in one of the biggest initial public offerings on the bourse this year. ( read original story ...)

Great Britain have been given the green light to compete in the Olympic rugby sevens tournaments next year after the government helped to arrange £2 million of funding from the National Lottery.The ... ( read original story ...)

Total investor inflows into cryptocurrency funds and products hit $5.6 billion so far this year, up more than 600% from 2019, according to the latest data from asset manager CoinShares. The inflows ... ( read original story ...)

Hackers have released over 270,000 email addresses associated with customers of the cryptocurrency wallet Ledger. The leak, which allegedly stemmed from a company hack last July, appears to contain ... ( read original story ...)

Elon Musk suggested on Twitter that he's tempted by bitcoin, then crypto booster Michael Saylor recommended he convert Tesla's entire balance sheet. ( read original story ...)

Email addresses belonging to hundreds of thousands of users of a cryptocurrency wallet have been leaked online. It is an embarrassing development for Ledger, a hardware wallet manufacturer, who ... ( read original story ...)

The market is definitely more mature than three years ago. Raising [capital] without a product and strong early traction is not possible in the millions [of dollars],” Ana-Maria Yanakieva, an ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank's Vision Fund is preparing to raise between $500 million and $600 million via an initial public offering of its first special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), U.S. news portal Axios ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s cabinet approved a record defense budget plan of about $51.6 billion for the coming year, in what will be the ninth consecutive increase in annual spending amid threats from China and North ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's second-largest lender Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc is eager to buy a commercial bank in Indonesia, its chief executive said, after a "painful" defeat last year in vying for mid-sized ... ( read original story ...)

Some of the world’s biggest freelancing sites have inadvertently cut out talented professionals from developing economies — but a crypto-powered platform is changing that ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank's Vision Fund is preparing to raise between US$500 million and US$600 million via an initial public offering of its first special purpose ... ( read original story ...)

The vehicles are being using to take a record number of companies public, bypassing the traditional IPO route. (Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru and Sam Nussey in Tokyo; Editing by Jane ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will remove the limit on the amount ... aims to introduce digital textbooks to all schools by fiscal 2025, Nikkei has learned. Current rules state that digital textbooks can only ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese shares fell from a 29-1/2-year high hit earlier in the session on Monday, as concerns about a spike in domestic coronavirus infections and the emergence of a new strain of the virus in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will look at reducing greenhouse gas emissions beyond its current target for 2030 and lay out details next year on a carbon pricing scheme that won't rule out a carbon tax, the environment ... ( read original story ...)