Tag: finance

At the center of Facebook’s push into payments is Novi, a digital wallet intended for users to move money around the world quickly and cheaply (free, in many cases). The company had plans to pair it ... ( read original story ...)

Almost no doctors are seeing first-time patients online in Japan more than a year since the government greenlighted the option, Nikkei has learned, even as the health care system struggles to cope ... ( read original story ...)

The second seed fought back from a set and a break down to beat American teenager Coco Gauff in the second round at the Western and Southern Open. ( read original story ...)

Japan was the largest provider of development aid in response to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis among the Group of Seven industrialized nations in 2020 despite the hit its economy suffered ... ( read original story ...)

Bitpanda has been diversifying its business toward a more holistic offering that will help to engage users. ( read original story ...)

Jake Weinig, an ex-Goldman Sachs trader who most recently ran now-shuttered hedge fund firm Malachite Capital, has formed a new firm to trade Bitcoin, Ethereum derivatives. ( read original story ...)

Changpeng Zhao said Binance is pivoting from being a technological innovator to being a financial services company. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Defense Ministry will seek a fiscal 2022 budget of more than 5.4 trillion yen ($49.3 billion), a record amount that could surpass the long-standing cap of 1% of gross domestic product. Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei index snapped its four-day losing streak to close higher on Wednesday, supported by gains in other Asian shares.The Nikkei 225 index gained 0.59 percent, or 161.44 points, to ... ( read original story ...)

Global crypto adoption among ordinary investors has surged in the past year, according to crypto-analysis firm Chainalysis. ( read original story ...)

Genpact Japan K.K. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), the Japanese subsidiary of Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, today announced that it will ... ( read original story ...)

Binance said on Wednesday it had appointed a former U.S. Treasury criminal investigator as its global money laundering reporting officer, part of an attempt by one of the world's largest crypto ... ( read original story ...)

In a remarkable plot twist, the company's response might be the best-case scenario for restoring confidence.The story of how Poly Network lost--and then recovered most of--$600 million in the largest ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei National Geographic has released a new photography book, Happy Moments of Animals (Expanded Edition), full of heartwarming images of joyful animals. ( read original story ...)

A sale-leaseback real estate company for the cannabis industry NewLake Capital Partners, Inc. announced on Monday that it has closed its initial public offering of 3.91 million shares of common stock ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese shares bounced back on Wednesday, led by gains in Fujifilm and other defensive stocks, with the Nikkei share average snapping its four-day losing streak, but concerns about the Delta variant ... ( read original story ...)