Three banks based in central Japan are teaming up to combat the enduring challenge of a dwindling population that’s threatening their long-term viability. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/28/japan/banks-alliance-depopulation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #banks #depopulation #nagano #yamanashi #shizuoka
Japan's regulators are proposing tighter rules for safe deposit boxes following a recent spate of thefts involving bank employees, including barring the storage of cash and other items that can be used to launder money. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/28/japan/crime-legal/safe-deposit-boxes-rules/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fsa #banks #moneylaundering #theft
Citigroup is expanding its investment banking team in Japan as the Wall Street firm bets that the country’s deal fee pool will finally rebound after a two-decade slump. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/27/companies/citigroup-dealmakers-hire-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #citigroup #banks #investments #mergers #acquisitions
@aral : most Let's Encrypt (and other Domain Validated) certificates are issued to junk- or plain criminal websites.
They're the ultimate manifestation of evil big tech.
They were introduced to encrypt the "last mile" because Internet Service Providers were replacing ads in webpages and, in the other direction, inserting fake clicks.
DV has destroyed the internet. People loose their ebank savings and companies get ransomwared; phishing is dead simple. EDIW/EUDIW will become an identity fraud disaster (because of AitM phishing atracks).
Even the name "Let's Encrypt" is wrong for a CSP: nobody needs a certificate to encrypt a connection. The primary purpose of a certificate is AUTHENTICATION (of the owner of the private key, in this case the website).
However, for human beings, just a domain name simply does not provide reliable identification information. It renders impersonation a peace of cake.
Decent online authentication is HARD. Get used to it instead of denying it.
REASONS/EXAMPLES
Troy Hunt fell in the DV trap: https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114222237036021070
Google (and Troy Hunt!) killed non-DV certs (for profit) because of the stripe.com PoC. Now Chrome does not give you any more info than what Google argumented: https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114224682101772569
https:⧸⧸cancel-google.com/captcha was live yesterday: https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114224264440704546
Stop phishing proposal: https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113079966331873386
Lots of reasons why LE sucks:
https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/112914047006977222 (corrected link 09:20 UTC)
This website stopped registering junk .bond domain names, probably because there were too many every day (the last page I found): https://newly-registered-domains.abtdomain.com/2024-08-15-bond-newly-registered-domains-part-1/. However, this gang is still active, open the RELATIONS tab in https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/13.248.197.209/relations. You have to multiply the number of LE certs by approx. 5 because they also register subdomains and don't use wildcard certs. Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/revolver-rabbit-gang-registers-500-000-domains-for-malware-campaigns/
Japan's National Police Agency is considering setting a ceiling of ¥300,000 per day on the amount of money elderly people can withdraw or send from automated teller machines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/25/japan/japan-atm-elderly-limit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atm #banks #elderly #japanesepolice
Katsunori Tanaka spent years at Goldman Sachs scrutinizing Japan’s biggest banks. Now he obsesses over much smaller regional lenders in the country at his ¥48 billion ($320 million) hedge fund Ariake Capital. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/25/companies/japan-hedge-fund-regional-bank-investment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #hedgefunds #regionalbanks #banks #investments #japaneseeconomy #boj #inflation
U.S. President Donald Trump's fast-moving effort to rewire international trade has left central banks across the globe guessing what the fallout of stagflation in the U.S. might mean for them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/21/economy/trump-trade-foreign-banks-uncertainty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #us #globaleconomy #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #banks
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group quit the banking industry’s largest climate alliance, joining domestic peers in walking away from a group abandoned by U.S. and Canadian heavyweights. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/20/companies/mufg-leaves-climate-group/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mufg #banks #climatechange
Japan Post Holdings said that the number of Japan Post Bank customers affected by Japan Post's misappropriation of personal information has risen to about 10 million. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/18/japan/japan-post-customer-information-misappropriate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #banks #japanpost
A year since Japan’s historic rate hike, its biggest banks are booming, consumers are forced to scrimp while higher borrowing costs are fueling a battle over how the government can rein in its outlays. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/17/economy/a-year-after-japans-rate-hike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #inflation #boj #japaneseeconomy #banks
