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A BitPay study found US consumers are increasingly interested in making purchases with cryptos, creating a growth opportunity for payment providers. ( read original story ...)

Takahide Kiuchi, executive economist at Nomura Research Institute and a former Bank of Japan board member, said that the first nationwide state of emergency last spring had caused an estimated 6.4 ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday the government will stick to a pledge to achieve a primary balance surplus in its fiscal blueprint due next month. Suga made the remark at the ... ( read original story ...)

News; Japan's External Assets Hit Record at End of 2020; Japan's External Assets Hit Record at End of 2020. News from Japan. Economy May 25, 2021 ... ( read original story ...)

The latest dip was brought about by China announcing yet another crackdown on crypto mining, though more positive news in the space has helped boost the crypto market. The market rebound at the start ... ( read original story ...)

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he chose Dogecoin over other cryptocurrency tokens because it "has dogs and memes." ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government will create a new fund to offer payouts to low-income households hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Tuesday. The government's new fund will be around ... ( read original story ...)

United States citizens have been warned against travelling to Japan a little over eight weeks out from the Olympics. With public opinion in Japan increasingly turning against the Games going ahead as ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Cumulative global cases have reached 167,104,468, according to Johns Hopkins ... ( read original story ...)

Caitlin Long, Founder and CEO of Avanti Bank, says the prices are the least interesting aspect of Bitcoin. She speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Shery Ahn on "". (Source: Bloomberg) ... ( read original story ...)

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and Beyond Next Ventures announced today that they have reached a partnership aiming to strengthen investments in and building an innovation ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is at risk of losing its independence, as it heads towards the realm of fiscal policy amid an absence of conventional monetary policy tools, a former central bank board member, ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government is stepping up discussions on whether to ease a firewall rule that bans the sharing of customer information across banking groups' commercial banking and investment banking ... ( read original story ...)

A dearth of conventional monetary tools is pushing the Bank of Japan closer to the realm of fiscal policy and could threaten its independence from political meddling, said former central bank board ... ( read original story ...)

Risk management is inescapable for any banking or financial institution. It has consistently been in the spotlight and every institution strives to practice innovative risk management strategies to ... ( read original story ...)

Without the ability to release films in major cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, which account for 35% of theatrical revenues, distributors are finding it hard to turn a profit. Some have delayed ... ( read original story ...)