Tag: crypto

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 ...)

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 ...)