The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan, the world’s largest pension fund with assets totaling $1.5 trillion, has officially announced its initiative to explore diversification opportunities that include Bitcoin, alongside traditional investments such as gold and more unconventional assets like forests and farmland. This exploration marks a monumental potential pivot in the investment strategy…
Global financial firm Circle has announced a strategic partnership with the Japanese financial services SBI Holdings, Inc., to promote the adoption of Circle’s USDC stablecoin and web3 services in Japan. Circle Joins SBI Holdings In A Memorandum Of Understanding According to the announcement, both parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) toward promoting UDSC‘s…
According to Japanese-based crypto media outlet Coinpost, Binance will launch in Japan fully this month and intends to list 34 tokens on its exchange. This means the platform will offer more tokens than its local competitors in Japan, with major domestic exchanges Bitbank, GMO Coin, and Coincheck listing 30, 36, and 22 tokens, respectively. The…
Presently Japanese crypto firms pay a set 30% corporate tax rate on their holdings, regardless of whether or not they made a profit. Due to this stringent tax law over the past years, some local crypto firms reportedly chose to move their business elsewhere. This development has impacted the country’s economic growth, and the LDP,…
The decentralized nature of crypto assets ensures that transactions and activities involving the assets have no third parties interference. This has remained a leveraging feature that decentralized finance uses against its centralized counterpart. Yet, most criminal activities relating to cryptocurrency are scaling through based on its decentralized characteristics. One of such prevalent crimes is money…
Cardano (ADA) has recently secured another win in its long repertoire of wins lately. The native coin of Cardano, ADA, has now been approved to be listed in Japan, which features one of the hardest listing requirements in the world. Only a handful of coins have been able to receive approval to be listed on…
UBS analysts expect Asia to be the only region that sees positive growth this year, and the return to strong earnings in the region could spark a renewed appetite for risk, and potentially, Bitcoin.UBS Analysts Expect Positive Growth in Asia, May Boost Bitcoin Buying in the RegionThe global economy is crumbling, and although markets are…
Japan has long been a hotbed for crypto adoption. Not only is the pseudonym of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, Japanese, but some of the largest cryptocurrency companies have called the Asian country their home over the past decade. That’s not to mention that Japan is a technologically advanced society ready to adopt innovation.It should come…
SBI Ripple Asia has just confirmed that it will be working with SBI Remit and Vietnam’s TPBank to facilitate remittance payments between Japan and Vietnam. The partnership will enable near-instant, low cost payments using the collaboration between Ripple Labs and SBI Holdings, RippleNet. Although the partnership is certainly encouraging for the adoption of RippleNet, the…
The Japanese government has started developing a crypto payments platform similar to SWIFT according to reports. The effort has come as part of a wider spread initiative to combat money laundering. SWIFT Not So Swift According to Reuters, citing ‘a person familiar with the plan’, the international network for crypto currency payments will rival SWIFT…