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Satsuki Katayama is a Japanese politician serving as Finance Minister, overseeing fiscal policy, debt issuance, and financial regulation.
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Japan's Ministry of Finance sold 7.27 trillion yen of retail government bonds in nine months, 291 billion yen short of the record set in 2007. The record looks all but certain, but the sums are small next to household cash and do little for the yields Tokyo pays.
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Japan's FSA cleared a fourth stablecoin pilot, letting four banks, TradeWaltz and NTT Data pay exporters for receivables in a bank-issued coin. Only the exporter's sale of the receivable to its bank is in scope, so collection from the importer stays on letters of credit and paper.
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Investors had held US equities near records on the view that Bessent was coordinating Trump's policy sensibly. His answer to a 10-year yield testing 5% was a buyback he announced at $6 billion and executed at about $5.2 billion.
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The 10-year JGB touched 3.027% before slipping back into the 2.9% range, while 40-year paper trades near 93 yen per 100 of face and insurers are asking their asset managers how to limit valuation losses.
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Ministry of Finance flow data show a bid under global stocks and bonds funded by yen carry, and repriced in July by one minister's suggestion about GPIF.
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