Tag: crypto

Electric Capital, a venture firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based businesses, fintech companies, and marketplaces, announced on Monday the closing of its second fund, a $110 million ... ( read original story ...)

These teen crypto entrepreneurs are building a business based on transparency with users and a thoughtful approach to risk. In crypto, that may just make them the real adults in the room. ( read original story ...)

Electric Capital, a San Francisco-based venture fund, said it will use $110 million raised from university endowments and other nonprofits to invest in cryptocurrencies and related businesses. ( read original story ...)

The FATF's review measured the progress from jurisdictions and the private crypto sector in implementing the intergovernmental revised standards. ( read original story ...)

The trust banking arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc plans to strengthen its testament business with a new app in September aimed at giving Japan's aging population experience in crafting a ... ( read original story ...)

Madrid-based payment app and card issuer 2gether said it can only reimburse investors with its native tokens following Friday’s hack. ( read original story ...)

Crypto businesses seeing strong growth across the 54-country continent are working hard to meet the FATF's anti-money laundering standards. ( read original story ...)

The Wall Street Journal, for example, is "considering" Tokyo as an option for some of its Hong Kong-based staff, according to two employees familiar with the matter. Japanese Finance Minister Taro ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s economy shrank at the same pace as previously estimated in the first quarter, according to a further revision of data that continued to show the country was in a recession before the pandemic ... ( read original story ...)

The additional revision for gross domestic product (GDP) compared with economists' median forecast for a 2.8% contraction in a Reuters poll. On a quarter-on-quarter basis GDP shrank 0.6%, also ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's economy shrank an annualised 2.2% in January-March, unchanged after a second revision, data from the Cabinet Office showed on Monday. The additional revision for gross domestic product (GDP) ... ( read original story ...)

This week, bitcoin rallied past $11,000 and value in DeFi climbed toward $4 billion. But what's the point of crypto if regular markets are just as volatile? ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan (BOJ) and Financial Services Agency (FSA), a top currency official Okamura said that the govt and BOJ ... ( read original story ...)

The bitcoin price has now bounced back to trade at around $11,300—but not before more than $1 billion of bitcoin positions were liquidated across various crypto ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Ryozo Himino is set to take the initiative in updating the administration and regulation of Japanese finance in line with global trends as new chief of the Financial Services Agency. ( read original story ...)

Shandong Industrial Cooperation Conference was held concurrently in Jinan, Tokyo and Osaka on July 30, bringing together government officials and business executives across all sectors in Japan and in ... ( read original story ...)