Trading volumes of cryptocurrency exchanges went up by $155 billion between July and September, from $175.7 billion to $330.6 billion. ( read original story ...)
India may pip Japan to become 3rd largest economy by 2050 after China, US
Huge declines in the number of workers were forecasted in China and India even as the latter was expected to still have the largest working-age population in the world by 2100. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s chipmaker Kioxia postpones $3.2 bln IPO plan
Kioxia Holdings Corp, the world's second-largest flash memory chipmaker, said on Monday it would postpone plans for an initial public offering (IPO) amid uncertainty in the global chip market stemming ... ( read original story ...)
Regulatory Clean-Up Moves Are Good for Crypto, Fundstrat Says
Fundstrat cautioned that some areas within crypto might be vulnerable given the regulatory trajectory. “We do see select crypto market segments as more exposed to regulatory risks than others and are ... ( read original story ...)
Excitement builds as S. Korea firm behind BTS nears IPO
Investors are anxiously awaiting as the South Korean entertainment company behind hugely popular K-pop boy band BTS plans its initial ... ( read original story ...)
Could have Japan Post avoided the disastrous Toll purchase?
ABC News The client was Japan Post. The target, Toll Group, the Melbourne trucking company that Paul Little had taken public – marrying his IPO banker – and built into an $8 billion-revenue logistics ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Car Trading Platform AutoCoinCars Shows Promising Signs of Growth
AutoCoinCars aims to provide a reliable and swift platform to cryptocurrency owners to buy and sell their cars. The forum connects the buyers with the dealers who accept cryptocurrency. The swift and ... ( read original story ...)
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Crosses $11K While DOJ Takes Aim at Crypto
Bitcoin Hits $11K as Square Exposes $2.3T Corporate Money Pot The list of challengers isn’t short. In no particular order, there’s Tron, EOS, Neo, Polkadot, Algorand, Cardano and Avalanche, ... ( read original story ...)
IPO Launch: Praxis Precision Medicines Seeks $126 Million In U.S. IPO
Praxis was founded to advance a pipeline of treatments for both broad psychiatric-related and rare diseases of the central nervous system having to do with neuronal imbalances. ( read original story ...)
Crypto fans mauled by watchdog baring its teeth
For crypto fans, this is somewhere between a nanny state and outright fascism. Who are the pen pushers at the FCA to withdraw a Brit’s god-given right to lose money on made-up numbers? They have one ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan to Start Digital Currency Experiments Next Year
The Bank of Japan said it aims to start early phase experiments next year on issuing a digital currency in order to be ready should demand for one rise quickly. ( read original story ...)
McKinsey guided Japan Post into disastrous Toll purchase
ABC News The client was Japan Post. The target, Toll Group, the Melbourne trucking company that Paul Little had taken public – marrying his IPO banker – and built into an $8 billion-revenue logistics ... ( read original story ...)
Japan stocks post biggest weekly gain in 2 months on U.S. stimulus hopes
Japanese stocks posted their biggest weekly gain in two months on Friday, on hopes of more stimulus in the United States, even though some investors doubted the chances of a deal in the run up to the ... ( read original story ...)
Furikomi – A Step by Step Guide to Bank Transfers in Japan
Living in Japan will require dealing with finances, which also means learning how to do banking through an ATM. While Japanese ATMs these days have an English menu, they are limited to basic essential ... ( read original story ...)
Univ. of Tokyo to issue $190 million debt for post-pandemic projects
The University of Tokyo said Thursday it will issue 20 billion yen ($190 million) worth of bonds next week to finance projects to add ... ( read original story ...)
How Japan’s status as financial hub benefits from China’s Hong Kong crackdown and Singapore’s limits on foreign workers
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong and Singapore’s limits on foreign workers have created an opening for Japan to become more inviting for foreign financiers. ( read original story ...)