Who Will Win the Cashless Wars in Japan?
Astonishing as it may seem but 80% of all retail transactions in Japan are made with cash and 88% if you include the cash stored in so-called...
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Will Rakuten Get A Near-Term Lyft?
Rakuten Inc (4755 JP) is much in the news for many reasons - one of which being a plunge into the deeper waters of being the fourth Type I Mobile...
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Naspers: Softbank Buyback a Guide for Naspers?
Recently, Softbank's (9984 JP) shares jumped +18% after announcing a $5.5bn share buyback. Using Smartkarma's holdco monitor, the discount to NAV...
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🇯🇵 JAPAN: Winter Results & Revisions Scores - Market Composite & Sector Review - Chilling
CHILLING - A winter chill has descended over the Japanese equity market. As we covered in our Insight on market aggregate earnings Japan: Winter...
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Value-Enhancing 5G Spectrum Allocations on the Way for KDDI, DoCoMo, Softbank and Rakuten
The Ministry of Industry Affairs and Communications (MIC, the regulator) will allocate 2.2 GHz of new spectrum bandwidth by the end of March equal...
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