Tag: crypto

In a recent webinar Kodai Sato, a senior researcher at Nomura Research Institute in Japan, contended that financial inclusion is not the top priority of Japan currently while it may be so for other ... ( read original story ...)

The verified accounts for Gates, Musk and Apple issued tweets promoting a cryptocurrency scam, asking followers to send money to a blockchain address. ( read original story ...)

This comes across as a fairly benign question to most people. If fintech is simply a term describing a range of financial technologies, and crypto is a financial technology, among other things, then ... ( read original story ...)

Viasat, Inc. VSAT recently announced that its U.K. counterpart joined forces with a leading cybersecurity solutions provider — Cyber1st — to reinforce crypto capabilities and deploy reliable ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the country's central bank, has set up a new dedicated team to further study digital currencies.The post Japan's central bank sets up new team to research digital currencies ... ( read original story ...)

Aiding adoption and creating innovative experiences in the crypto space, Mastercard today announced the expansion of its cryptocurrency program, making it simpler and faster for partners to bring ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s exports plunged 26.2% in June from a year earlier, Ministry of Finance (MOF) data showed on Monday. The fall compared with a 24.9% decline expected by economists in a Reuters poll. It followed ... ( read original story ...)

The value of Japan’s overall shipments overseas slid 26.2% from a year earlier, the finance ministry reported Monday. Economists forecast a 24.7% fall. “Looking ahead, exports are likely to continue ... ( read original story ...)

Stock markets across Asia have begun the new trading week on a mixed note as earnings season continues to gather steam.Markets in Japan and South Korea have opened with a positive bias while those ... ( read original story ...)

Japan posted a merchandise trade deficit of 268.824 billion yen in June, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday. That missed ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's exports suffered a double-digit decline for the fourth month in a row in June as the coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on global demand, reinforcing expectations that the economy has sunk ... ( read original story ...)

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was flat at 541.49, with Australian shares down 0.3% and South Korea's KOSPI just a shade higher. Japan's Nikkei was up 0.1%. E-minis for the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is aiming to invite Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd or other global chipmakers to build an advanced chip manufacturing plant jointly with domestic chip equipment suppliers, the Yomiuri ... ( read original story ...)

Finance Minister Taro Aso and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda participated with the aim of revisiting the issue of debt relief for developing countries. ( read original story ...)

The British government asked Japan to help build its 5G wireless networks without Huawei Technologies, citing NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd as potential alternative suppliers, the Nikkei business daily ... ( read original story ...)

A top Pentagon investigative unit, the Army Contracting Command, has said it wants to hire a crypto analytics service to "quickly detect criminal and suspicious cryptocurrency ... ( read original story ...)