Tag: crypto

Japanese shares plumbed three-week lows on Tuesday, as investors took profits from stellar gains over the past couple of months on concerns that a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain found in ... ( read original story ...)

Ripple, one of the most important companies in the cryptocurrency industry, said Monday evening that the Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to file a bombshell lawsuit against the company ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's finance ministry has reportedly leveraged 80 tons of gold to help fund part of its huge stimulus package aimed at combating the coronavirus crisis. The Asian country, which is saddled with ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank’s vehicle, called SVF Investment, plans to target companies in a similar mold to its Vision Fund venture capital behemoth. ( read original story ...)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei average opened down 0.58 percent at 26,559.33 on Tuesday, while the broader Topix shed 0.82 percent at 1,774.43. T Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is ... ( read original story ...)

The discovery of an infectious new Covid strain in the U.K. that has prompted tighter lockdowns and travel restrictions across Europe. ( read original story ...)

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 ...)