Yasutaka Tamura

Maya Funaki, a Hong Kong-based portfolio manager at RBC BlueBay Asset Management, is leaving the firm, according to a spokesperson for the investment arm of Royal Bank of Canada.

Kioxia Holdings Corp. is considering raising at least $10 billion by listing American depositary receipts, people familiar with the matter said, potentially joining other artificial intelligence-related companies seeking to tap strong investor demand.

SB Energy Inc., a data center firm backed by SoftBank Group Corp., is aiming to raise as much as $500 million in the Japanese portion of its planned initial public offering in the US, following other major deals in tapping the country’s deep pools of capital.

Proceeds will be used to develop and build infrastructure including data centers and power plants.

Buddhist temples are squeezed by lower donations and higher costs

Buy&Ship is the first Hong Kong-based company chosen by the Tokyo Stock Exchange to join its initial public offering incubation program, giving it a hand in expanding its presence in Japan.

Fundraising through initial public offerings in Japan is drying up, in contrast to a dealmaking boom across Asia, after regulatory changes and a dearth of artificial intelligence related companies depleted up the listings pipeline.

Fundraising through initial public offerings (IPOs) in Japan is drying up, in contrast to a dealmaking boom across Asia, after regulatory changes

NOTA Inc. is planning an initial public offering in Tokyo as soon as December, according to people familiar with the matter, setting up what could be one of the larger deals in a down year for Japanese debuts.

Hedge fund managers pitched a range of Japanese companies from machinery makers to software providers at the inaugural Sohn Tokyo Investment Conference on Friday.