Tag: finance

The Tokyo Financial Exchange, one of Japan’s leading financial exchanges, has announced that they will begin preparations for Bitcoin futures offerings at the beginning of 2018. The company boasts some high value trading partners like JP Morgan Chase and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- As Brexit looms and the world looks to Frankfurt as the financial center of Europe, Tokyo looks the other way, tapping the City of London as its partner in its quest to become a hub of international finance. Has Tokyo chosen the right city as its ... ( read original story ...)

He had been at Ashurst since 1998, but stepped down as head of the firm's Tokyo base this June after two years in the role. He was replaced by finance partner Dominic Gregory. His move marks the latest in a spate of departures from Ashurst. In November ... ( read original story ...)

A futures exchange in Tokyo is reportedly taking the first steps toward launching bitcoin-related products. Bloomberg News said earlier today that Tokyo Financial Exchange has formed a working group as part of an early effort to start listing futures ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened slightly lower on Thursday as investors digested the US Federal Reserve's announcement that it would lift interest rates while maintaining its outlook for further hikes next year. At the open, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged down 0 ... ( read original story ...)

Colt has “substantially reduced” the latency between the Tokyo and London financial centres to less than 159 milliseconds, the company announced today. This reduction is part of the company’s continuing investment in its Colt IQ Network, which has ... ( read original story ...)

That’s because one huge Tokyo-based BTC exchange is letting people borrow up to 15 times their cash balances to purchase the crypto-currency. The exchange in question is called bitFlyer. According to a Financial Times interview with its CEO Yuzo Kano ... ( read original story ...)

Law firm Mayer Brown has announced that it will open a Tokyo office in the first half of 2018. The office will be led by Rupert Burrows, a corporate and project finance lawyer, who joins the firm from Ashurst. Burrows has more than 20 years’ experience ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- With a record number of wooden boats drifting into coastal areas, the Japanese government is bolstering patrols and other measures to better respond to what are believed to be illegal fishing vessels from North Korea. A total of 83 such vessels ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s government is expected to cut new bond issuance for fiscal 2018 from the previous year thanks to economic recovery pushing up tax revenues, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday. Total new bond issuance will likely fall by ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- With staff getting harder to come by, nearly 60% of top executives at major Japanese companies are inclined to invest more in training and educating personnel in fiscal 2018, according to a Nikkei Inc. survey. Yet despite the widespread sense that ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will lighten its float of government bonds in fiscal 2018 for an eighth straight year, the Finance Ministry decided Wednesday, anticipating that tax revenue growth will exceed the spending increase in the nation's budget. The JGB issuance ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- With a record number of wooden boats drifting into coastal areas, the Japanese government is bolstering patrols and other measures to better respond to what are believed to be illegal fishing vessels from North Korea. A total of 83 such vessels ... ( read original story ...)

Investing.com – Japan stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 1889 to 1447 and 207 ended unchanged. Shares in The Shizuoka ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- SG Holdings, the parent company of Japanese parcel delivery specialist Sagawa Express, is basking in the glow of its successful initial public offering, a move that turns the page for a company that was in crisis not so long ago. Its shares, which ... ( read original story ...)

Scheduled to open its first leg in 2027, the maglev line will link Japan’s two biggest cities of Tokyo and Osaka upon completion in 2045. As part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to export infrastructure technology, the government said last year ... ( read original story ...)