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Bloomberg: Nomura Holdings considers selling its encryption business Laser Digital, Marex is evaluating acquisitions

According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, Japan’s Nomura Holdings is considering selling its encryption business Laser Digital Holdings AG and has started contacts with potential buyers, including Marex Group, which is evaluating acquisitions. No final decision has been made and Nomura may choose another buyer or retain the business. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Zurich, Laser Digital mainly provides crypto asset trading, asset management and venture capital services to institutional investors. Affected by the violent fluctuations in the crypto market, the company suffered large losses, causing Nomura's European business to fall into a quarterly loss, and management subsequently tightened risk control. Laser Digital recently obtained a Japanese crypto-asset trading services license and received conditional approval for a U.S. National Trust banking license in May this year. Even as Nomura considers selling the business, Japan is pushing ahead with the listing of cryptocurrency ETFs and a reduction in tax rates on related investment income, with the first ETFs likely to be launched as early as next year.

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International

Ex-member of radical Marxist group scales balcony, escapes house arrest in Argentina

Leonardo Bertulazzi, 74, awaiting extradition to Italy, reportedly used harness to flee custody A 74-year-old former member of Italy’s radical Marxist group the Red Brigades has escaped from house arrest in Argentina, the country’s security ministry confirmed on Wednesday, after he reportedly hid his ankle monitor inside a tube of pork and lowered himself from a fifth-floor balcony. Authorities placed Leonardo Bertulazzi under house arrest in Buenos Aires in 2024, prior to his extradition to Italy to serve a 27-year prison sentence. He had received the sentence in 1987 for joining a subversive

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Sports

‘I’ve had to prove people wrong’: Kane still striving before record England cap

Captain to surpass Shilton with 126th cap against Croatia Kane aims to increase record for younger players to catch Harry Kane says he still feels a pressure to prove his worth, even as he prepares to become England’s most capped men’s player, as he outlined his determination to set records that will stand for years. The captain will make his 126th appearance against Croatia at ­Wembley on Thursday night, moving him ahead of Peter Shilton on the all-time list. Kane is England’s record ­goalscorer with 91, comfortably clear of Wayne Rooney, who retired with 53. Continue reading...

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Sports

Complaint filed to IRS in relation to Fifa head Gianni Infantino’s housekeeper

It calls for inquiry into claims she was on Fifa payroll Fifa: Infantino personally pays for ‘any domestic staff’ A complaint has been filed to the United States Internal Revenue Service calling for an investigation into claims an individual on the Fifa payroll was working privately as a housekeeper for Gianni Infantino. If the IRS investigates and finds the claims to be proven then Fifa could lose its tax-exempt status in the US. Fifa has 501(c)(4) status in the country, a category for organisations “created to promote community welfare for charitable, educational or recreational purposes”. C

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