Tag: finance

Kuroda speech included new language on risks of more stimulus Changes are said to have been wrongly interpreted as exit hint A new dissenter on the Bank of Japan board calling for more stimulus has prompted the BOJ to adjust its communications to flag ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese trading platforms are expanding overseas in an effort ... urging investors to pay close attention to price fluctuations and potential risks. Nikkei Inc. group company QUICK holds an equity stake in bitFlyer. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — A quarterly business outlook survey by Japan’s central bank shows sentiment improved to its highest level in 11 years in a further upbeat signal for the economy. The Bank of Japan’s “tankan” index for large manufacturers, released Friday ... ( read original story ...)

That term is often used to describe the individual Japanese investor, traditionally a housewife who runs her family’s finances. And that’s who behind the surge in bitcoin, according to a Deutsche Bank AG note Thursday. “We think that retail investors ... ( read original story ...)

Gov. Yuriko Koike may be taking Tokyo’s “London of the East” dream a bit too literally, inking a four-year partnership agreement with the British capital. Predecessors dating back to Shintaro Ishihara (1999-2012) long coveted London’s energy, heft ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)