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Nomura Holdings is a Japanese financial services group offering investment banking, securities brokerage, and asset management worldwide.
Jio Platforms set its IPO price band at 1,065 to 1,119 rupees, valuing it near $108 billion against over $130 billion floated a year ago. CNBC reported pushback from investors unconvinced by its technology label.
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Capitolis raised $220 million, including a $120 million Series E led by Citi at a $1.9 billion valuation, with eight other big institutions joining. Most of the money backs its purchase of eSecLending, putting securities lending inside the capital and balance-sheet software Capitolis sells to banks.
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Brent's return above $100 lifted the dollar index 0.3% to 102.13 on Wednesday, even as traders cut October Fed hike odds to 21.6% from about 51%. That leaves the dollar leaning on oil prices while the September minutes test how much appetite the Fed still has for hikes.
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Japan's FSA cleared a fourth stablecoin pilot, letting four banks, TradeWaltz and NTT Data pay exporters for receivables in a bank-issued coin. Only the exporter's sale of the receivable to its bank is in scope, so collection from the importer stays on letters of credit and paper.
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Autoheal raised a $7.9 million seed round for a platform that scores a company's AI agents and repairs the weak ones. Its customer evidence so far covers incident investigation, so teams buying it for vulnerability fixes are buying on the pitch alone.
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Shanghai has valued a small but profitable robot maker above Figure AI, Baidu and JD.com. The multiple, not the machines, is the number to check.
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The FSA, Ministry of Finance and Bank of Japan want a development plan by early 2027 for real-time settlement of stocks and government bonds. Everything reported so far traces to one Nikkei story.
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Laser Digital Japan holds an exchange registration it does not plan to aim at retail. Its first business is selling liquidity to the licensed venues already operating there.
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Taiwan and South Korea are splitting the AI server chain because demand exceeds what either can build. For 2026 supply forecasts, the binding step is the handoff, not any single fab.
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The chipmaker raised more than $2.6 billion selling depositary receipts, then announced a $27 billion buyback-and-cancel at prices roughly a third lower. Price discipline, not signalling.
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Nomura's Charlie McElligott says structured product hedging has turned mega-cap tech into a volatility mechanism, while AI borrowing runs at roughly 12 times its decade average.
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