Spectators from abroad will be barred from the Tokyo Olympics when they open in four months, the IOC and local organizers said Saturday.The decision was ... ( read original story ...)
Markets may see Bank of Japan’s policy tweaks as signaling change down the road
A set of tweaks by the Bank of Japan designed to make monetary easing effective and sustainable could be a harbinger of a measured, l ... ( read original story ...)
Robinhood Plans To Expand Crypto Operations
The Menlo Park, California-based online brokerage added cryptocurrency trading features to its platform in 2018. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Investment Bank Seeks to Hire a Dozen for Flurry of Deals
Imperii, an investment bank that focuses on the cryptocurrency industry, is looking to hire at least a dozen people this year to handle a flurry of deal activity that it’s expecting. ( read original story ...)
Climate-Positive Crypto Art: The Next Big Thing Or NFT Overreach?
Beeple, together with digital artists such as Andres Resigner, Refik Anadol, Sara Ludy, and Kyle Gordon, are gearing up for an NFT charity auction. All of the proceeds will go to Open Earth Foundation ... ( read original story ...)
People on the West Coast are largely driving the conversation around crypto art, with Middle America showing the least interest
The states that tweeted the most about the digital assets in the last month include California, Oregon, and Washington. ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan carves out more flexibility for longer inflation fight
A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. The BoJ unveiled a set of carefully crafted policy tweaks aimed at giving itself more flexibility to keep up its long quest to revive ... ( read original story ...)
Revolution Populi’s crypto clearing house could potentially super-charge the volume of crypto trading
One of the obstacles to crypto-currencies in the mainstream financial world is the absence of a neutral party to help banks settle trades in crypto by making sure that no counter-party reneges on a ... ( read original story ...)
Rise of Crypto Market’s Quiet Giants Has Big Market Implications
An influential set of cryptocurrencies is under increasing scrutiny, and how it’s regulated will have major implications for digital tokens as a whole. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo organisers expected to discuss foreign spectators on Saturday
Tokyo Olympics organisers will meet with Japanese government officials on Saturday, the local organising committee said, with discussion of whether to allow in foreign spectators expected to be on the ... ( read original story ...)
G7 ministers backed new help for low-income countries, Japan’s Aso says
TOKYO (Reuters) – Financial leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations backed a new allocation of special drawing rights at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help low-income countries, ... ( read original story ...)
Toshiba shareholders vote for probe in landmark win for Japan corporate governance
The vote marks only the fourth time an activist shareholder motion has won approval in Japan and the first at a major company that is a household name, albeit one sullied by a string of scandals. ( read original story ...)
BNY Mellon Joins $133 Million Funding Round for Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks
This will be done by a new team that will explore additional services like lending against crypto collateral. "We are starting with the anchor in this space, which is custody," the head of BNY ... ( read original story ...)
Hype over U.S. crypto ETF approval fuels Bitcoin inflows
Investors are optimistically anticipating the first American exchange-traded crypto products will be approved by the SEC after a leadership change at the commission introduced a more favorable hearing ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Didi Chuxing is eyeing a mega-IPO next quarter that values the ride-hailing service above $62 billion, report says
Didi is targeting an IPO as early as this summer at a valuation above the $62 billion it secured in its last funding round, Bloomberg said. ( read original story ...)
Ukraine, Japan start talks on updating Convention on Avoidance of Double Taxation
The Ministries of Finance of Ukraine and Japan will begin negotiations to update the 1986 Convention on Avoidance of Double Taxation on March 22. "Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan ... ( read original story ...)