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Laser Digital, a subsidiary of Nomura Holdings in Japan, has announced the launch of the Laser Digital NEAR Adoption Fund. The fund's strategy aims to provide institutional investors with long-term exposure to NEAR tokens, combined with a pledge mechanism to enable investors to participate in the blockchain consensus mechanism.
Nomura Securities: The Federal Reserve is expected to stand still in 2025, compared with the previous forecast of a rate cut.
On January 23rd, according to Bloomberg, Etherealize, founded by former Nomura Holdings and UBS bond trader Vivek Raman, has received investment from Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation. The company has formed an eight-person team in New York to promote Ethereum to Wall Street Financial Institutions Group and develop bank-friendly products.
Komainu Holdings Ltd., a cryptocurrency custodian backed by Nomura Holdings Inc., has raised $75 million from Blockstream Capital Partners. The funds will be used to support Komainu's global expansion and integrate collateral management and tokenization technology developed by Blockstream Inc.
More than a dozen new cryptocurrency ETFs are expected to be approved in the US by 2025, according to a report by Laser Digital, a digital asset subsidiary of Nomura Holdings. Several asset management institutions have submitted applications to the SEC, including the ProShares bitcoin-denominated S & P 500 ETF, the Bitcoin/Ethereum portfolio ETF, and products based on Litecoin, XRP and Solana. The report points out that under the leadership of new SEC chairperson Paul Atkins, the crypto regulato...
David Seif, chief economist for developed markets at Nomura, responded to a question about what Trump's trade policy would mean for the Fed. His answer was as follows: "We think Trump will impose tariffs quickly, and tariffs will lead to inflation, which will rise by about 0.75 percentage points in the United States by the end of 2025. So we think the Fed will only cut interest rates by 25 basis points (in March) in 2025, compared to our previous forecast of 100 basis points."
Affected by Trump's election victory, Nomura expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates only once in 2025.
Brokerage firms such as Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank, Nomura, and Daiwa Securities, as well as a consortium of Japanese institutions such as cryptocurrency exchanges such as BitFlyer and Bitbank, have proposed launching cryptocurrency ETFs focused on bitcoin and Ethereum in Japan.
