Japanese investment conglomerate Softbank Group (SFTBY) (JP:9984) is set to raise roughly $4.1 billion (600 billion yen) in its largest-ever retail bond issuance to date, according to Reuters. The ...

Yoko Kubota is The Wall Street Journal's deputy bureau chief in Beijing, responsible for business news coverage in China ...

Flashback to 2019, SoftBank made headlines when its founder, Masayoshi Son, took a gigantic loss on a personal bitcoin investment. Son had taken exposure to cryptocurrency in late 2017, when the ICO ...

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group plans to raise roughly 600 billion yen ($4 billion) by selling five-year bonds to retail investors in the Japanese technology investor's largest-ever retail bond issuance.

Global tech investor SoftBank Group is turning to a familiar tool to fund its $40 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced late Monday: debt. The Tokyo-based company, led by ...