Tagged: tarō asō

August 24, 2020 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taro Aso, the Japanese Finance Minister, has reportedly said that blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) could potentially help with combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Aso believes that DLT-powered solutions may be used for contact tracing while ensuring the privacy of user data. Aso, whose comments… Read More

June 5, 2020 @ 3:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japan’s largest banks will be looking into the potential benefits of using electronic money and digital currencies in order to make banks and cashless payments systems interoperable. The initiative has been launched by Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, the world’s fifth-largest bank in terms of… Read More

April 23, 2014 @ 2:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to move forward with the legalization of crowdfunding, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and his cabinet approved a de-regulation of equity campaigning to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, which will help companies, especially startups, with raising crowdfunding equity. “Abenomics” encourages small and medium enterprises… Read More