U.S. investment fund Fortress Investment Group is set to provide financing to turn around Leopalace21, a struggling apartment builder based in Tokyo, Nikkei has learned. Leopalace21 is reeling from ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Millions Lotto named “Official Online Lottery Partner” of Serie A Club Atalanta B.C.
Professional football club in Italy forms partnership with world’s biggest digital lottery Crypto Millions Lotto named Official Online Lottery PartnerLONDON, Sept. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Co-ops and Game Theory: Why the Internet Must Learn to Collaborate to Survive
The shift to Web 3.0's decentralized standards raises the question: What is the optimal balance between cooperation and competition? ( read original story ...)
How the Crypto Industry Seesaws Between Assets and Infrastructure
It meant that anyone could directly control their assets and could transfer them in a purely peer-to-peer manner. A new form of money. A new model of ownership. With bitcoin, there was born a new ... ( read original story ...)
Japan financial regulator orders two banks to report on vote-counting errors -Nikkei
Japan's financial regulator has ordered two trust banks to report details on vote-counting problems at shareholder meetings, the Nikkei reported on Wednesday, after the banks revealed counting errors ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: Appraising The Landscape
Japan's leading economic index, exports, and industrial production have improved sequentially, but inflation continues to be anemic. ( read original story ...)
Crypto and blockchain won’t catch on until they’re actually useful
Taking blockchain tech from buzzword to essential technology should have a singular focus: Making it useful for people’s everyday lives. ( read original story ...)
Novogratz Plows Ahead In DeFi Amid the ‘Gamifying’ of Crypto
Scams and get-rich-fast schemes in decentralized finance, or DeFi, are giving the crypto industry a black eye, according to Mike Novogratz, chief executive officer of Galaxy Investment Partners LLC. ( read original story ...)
Crypto exchange Bitpanda closes $52M Series A from Valar Ventures, backed by Peter Thiel
Bitpanda, a crypto assets platform, has closed a $52 million Series A funding round form Valar Ventures, a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Vienna-based VC Speedinvest also participated, ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Finance – Withdrawl Application For Re-Classification Of Promoter And Promoter Group
The Company has received Re-classification withdrawl application from Promoter and Promoter Group with reference to letter dated 21/09/2020 ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto will never hit critical mass until cybersecurity improves
Another week, another hack, another exchange, another theft. Welcome to the recurring world of crypto attacks and the reason why ... ( read original story ...)
Kioxia Delays Plan for IPO, Sending Toshiba Shares Lower
Kioxia Holdings Corp., the memory chipmaker spun out of Toshiba Corp. in 2018, said it will postpone its plans for an initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Toshiba shares tumbled. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Three Megabanks to Extend Loans to NTT for NTT Docomo Acquisition: Sources
MUFG Bank will extend the biggest amount, the sources, who are familiar with the matter, told Reuters, declining to be identified because the deal is not official yet. Wealth of Knowledge is a weekly ... ( read original story ...)
Mizuho, Japan’s first megabank, facing tough going again 20 years after launch
The group is seeking to become "a next-generation financial institution," Tatsufumi Sakai, president and group chief executive officer, has said. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s megabanks to extend four trillion yen in loans to NTT for NTT Docomo acquisition: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's three major banks and some others are set to extend about 4 trillion yen ($37.9 billion) in coordinated loans to NTT for the acquisition of its mobile carrier, the Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)
CFTC charges overseas trading company with engaging in illegal crypto transactions
The CFTC has charged an overseas trading company with "engaging in unlawful retail commodity transactions" involving crypto.The post CFTC charges overseas trading company with engaging in illegal ... ( read original story ...)