Key Takeaways The Japanese parliament has passed a new bill clarifying the legal status of stablecoins. The bill ensures rigorous investor protections, including the right to redeem stablecoins at fac...
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Japan’s Akatsuki Raises $20m Fund for Investing in Web3 Projects
Japan’s Akatsuki announced that it has raised a $20 million fund for investing in web3 projects, according to The Block. In a press release, the Japanese entertainment and gaming firm said that ...
Japan’s 7-Eleven Tycoon Bucks The Trend By Doubling Down On Convenience Stores
Masatoshi Ito Kimimasa Mayama/Bloomberg This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Japan’s Richest 2022. See the full list here. The 7-Eleven convenience store made Japan’s Seven & i Holdings the r...
Global Turbulence Shakes Japan’s Growth Outlook
This story appears in the June 2022 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes Asia Japanese yen ullstein bild via Getty Images This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Japan’s Richest 2022. See the f...
Japan’s Bitbank to set up a custody firm to facilitate institutional entry to local markets
In a new development for East Asia, Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank announced a partnership with financial holding company Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings to establish Japan Digital Asset Trust (JADAT...
Japan’s banking giant Nomura set to launch crypto division
Financial Times, in their latest announcement, said that Japanese investment bank Nomura will start a new firm focusing on cryptocurrencies, decentralized financing (Defi), and non-fungible tokens (NF...
Japan’s Investment Bank Nomura to Establish Digital Asset Arm
Nomura, a global investment bank headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, announced plans to launch a digital assets subsidiary for institutional clients. With the launch scheduled for later this year, the digi...
Recession Risks Are Contagious As Japan’s GDP Stumbles—Again
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has very few options to avoid a recession that may be all but inevitable. Getty Images Japan’s economy shrank…Typing these words is maddeningly familiar for long-time Toky...
Crypto Subsidiary To Be Launched By Japan’s Largest Investment Bank
Leading Japanese Investment bank, Nomura has decided to launch a crypto subsidiary. This new unit by Nomura shall be operated outside of Japan with a team of 100 personnel by the end of next year. Thi...
Japan’s Nomura launches crypto subsidiary
The largest investment bank in Japan, Nomura, is ready to ascertain a brand new company to assist institutional shoppers invest in cryptocurrency and Non Fungible tokens (NFTs). The Monetary Times rep...
Japan’s largest investment bank Nomura to launch crypto arm, FT reports
Japanese investment bank Nomura will launch a new company focused on cryptocurrency, decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for institutional clients, according to the Financial T...
Japan’s largest investment bank Nomura readies new crypto subsidiary
The largest investment bank in Japan, Nomura, is set to establish a new subsidiary company to help institutional clients invest in cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens (NFTs). The Financial Times rep...
Japan’s Largest Investment Bank Formed Institutions-Focused Crypto Unit
Only days after launching its first-ever Over-the-Counter Bitcoin derivatives to institutional clients, Japan’s largest investment bank Nomura doubled down on its crypto-based services by launching a ...
Is XRP payment acceptance by Japan’s leading Used Car Exporter resulting in a boom in Asia?
XRP token of Ripple network has recently seen a massive boom in acceptance across the Asian region after getting accepted by SBI Motor Japan One of the leading Used Car Exporters of Japan, based...
Digital Payments Firm Opn Becomes Japan’s Newest Unicorn After Raising $120 Million
Jun Hasegawa speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 at Pier 48 on September 18, 2017 in … [+] San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Japan’s Opn said on ...
Japan’s SBI Group brought XRP to the mainstream, will XRP be bullish?
XRP XRP/USD is a cryptocurrency that allows users to send money at a low cost and, as such, has attracted the interest of both retail customers and banks. XRP is a cryptocurrency that runs on the XRP ...
Ripple Bags Japan’s First E-Commerce Adoption, as XRP Will be Used to Purchase Used Cars on SBI Motors
– Advertisement – SBI Clients Can Now Buy Used Cars Using Ripple (XRP) and Bitcoin (BTC). The initiative further increases XRP’s utility, which has been on a downtrend since the SEC slamme...
Japan’s Double Jump.Tokyo Raises $24m to Scale Blockchain Gaming Products
Double Jump. Tokyo, a rapidly growing blockchain gaming startup in Japan, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $24 million (3 billion yen) in a Series C funding round. This round of funding was l...
Netflix And Japan’s Studio Colorido Inks Multi-Picture Partnership
Yuji Yamano (left), Netflix’s Director of Japan Content, and Koji Yamamoto (right), Studio … [+] Colorido’s President, celebrate their expanded partnership. Netflix Netflix NFLX has inked a mult...
Japan’s Central Bank (BOJ) is cautious about Digital Yen
The Bank of Japan will proceed with caution when it comes to the digital yen, preferring Sweden’s approach to China’s rapid development of experimentation. Central bank digital money has c...
Japan’s Central Bank Will Test Digital Yen Cautiously
Over the past years, developed and developing countries have shown a growing interest in central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Bank of Japan has recently announced a cautious approach to the digit...
Japan’s Top Messaging App LINE Launches Marketplace With 40,000 NFTs – Featured Bitcoin News
Japan’s top social network and messaging app, LINE, has launched a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The new service allows 90 million LINE users to send and exchange NFTs with their friends...
Bank of Japan’s CBDC Will Not Be Used to Combat Negative Rates
Japan is experimenting with the possibility of launching a digital version of its currency in a bid to rein in cryptocurrency usage. The latest insights from the central bank have revealed that the ce...
Kakao Piccoma: The Webtoon Platform Acquires 50% shares Of Japan’s Sakura Exchange
Kakao Piccoma, the Japanese Webtoon platform, purchases half of Japan’s Sakura Exchange. Sakura Exchange Bitcoin (SEBC) is among the total thirty crypto exchanges in the country registered with the F...
Webtoon platform Kakao Piccoma buys 50% of Japan’s Sakura Exchange
Kakao Piccoma, a Japanese digital comics’ subscription service and subsidiary of the Korean internet company Kakao, has purchased a 50% controlling stake in the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange,...
How Japan’s Yen ‘Lost Its Mojo’ as a Safe Haven
(Bloomberg) — What a difference eight years make for Japan’s currency. Most Read from Bloomberg “Yen Rises for Fifth Day Amid Ukraine Tension,” a Bloomberg News headline exclaimed in March 2014,...
Litecoin rallies by 27.54%, thanks to Japan’s…
Even though Litecoin hasn’t been the most-favored cryptocurrency, it has performed decently on the price chart. In fact, regulators and merchants across the globe have held it in high esteem. Moshi Mo...
Japan’s Messaging Platform LINE to Launch NFT Marketplace
Japanese social media and messaging platform LINE has launched its Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace dubbed LINE NFT which is set to officially go live on April 13. The launch of the LINE NFT platf...
Japan’s Coincheck to combine with SPAC Thunder Bridge in $1.25 billion deal
Coincheck Inc., a cryptocurrency marketplace and digital asset exchange that’s a unit of Japan’s Monex Group, said Tuesday it has agreed to a business combination with special purpose acqu...