Fujitsu and SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”) announced that SoftBank on October 26 completed the nationwide deployment in core areas of an all optical network in Japan using a disaggregated architecture*1 optical transmission system that supports open networks, including Fujitsu’s next-generation optical transmission…
SoftBank Corp. (hereinafter, the “Company”) announces the status of its share buyback program, resolved at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on May 10, 2023, pursuant to the Company’s article of incorporation in accordance with Article 459, paragraph…
KDDI CORPORATION, SoftBank Corp., and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. (“the three companies”) announced their views on the “The NTT Law: Our Perspective” (“NTT’s Perspective”) document issued by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (“NTT”)*2 on October 19, 2023. Currently, discussions are underway within…
Naspers and Prosus have announced that the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has validated the Group’s science-based climate targets. This is a major milestone in our commitment to decarbonise our business while we support a just and fair transition to…
SoftBank Corp. (President & CEO: Junichi Miyakawa, “SoftBank”) announced it developed a new “Model for Predicting Direction of Radiowaves Arriving at Mobile Station” as part of its “HAPS Radiowave Propagation Prediction Method for Design of Systems,” which is necessary for…
The Board of Directors of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced that Co-President Edward (Ted) Pick will become the Firm’s Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2024. James Gorman will become Executive Chairman. Mr. Pick will also join Morgan Stanley’s…
SoftBank Corp. (hereinafter the “Company”) announces that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on October 23, 2023, its Board of Directors resolved the distribution of dividends from capital surplus with a record date of September 30, 2023…
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”) today announced the listing of five new ETFs on NYSE Arca. These latest additions to MSIM’s ETF platform are all actively-managed and span asset classes with one Parametric-branded alternative income strategy, one Parametric-branded hedged equity…
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announced that Ed Huang, Chief Operating Officer, Blackstone Private Equity Asia, has been promoted to Head of Private Wealth Solutions (PWS), APAC. Herbert Suen has been named Head of Southeast Asia, PWS, and Manali Parekh has been…
On October 19, 2023, a total of 180 entities, including telecommunications operators and local governments, submitted a jointly-signed request (the “Request”) to the Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party (“LDP”), as well as the Chairman…
The Government of Rwanda and SoftBank Corp. (President & CEO: Junichi Miyakawa, “SoftBank”) announced that on September 24, 2023, they successfully tested SoftBank’s proprietary 5G communications payload in the stratosphere installed on a solar-powered High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) unmanned…
Blackstone (NYSE:BX) announced that funds managed by Blackstone Real Estate have secured A$1.45 billion (US$930 million) for a sustainability-linked loan (“SLL”), representing the largest of its kind to date in Australia’s industrial sector1 and a continuation of its efforts to build…
