日本金融科技观察家 #74

诺伯特·格尔克（Norbert Gehrke）关注东京金融科技新闻通讯听分享欢迎阅读第七十四期《日本金融科技观察家》。

74th Edition of the Japan FinTech Observer

第 74 期《日本金融科技观察家》

Norbert Gehrke

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We will host the Japan FinTech Observer weekly call again on Monday evening, starting at 8pm JST on LinkedIn Audio. You can find this week’s event here.

我们将于周一晚上再次在 LinkedIn Audio 上举办日本金融科技观察家每周电话会议（日本标准时间晚上 8 点开始）。您可以在这里找到本周的活动。

Canadian Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT), with one-fifth of the stores but 1.5x the market capitalization, is making a bid for 7&I Holdings. “Japan’s M&A scene may never be the same again,” says Leo Lewis in the Financial Times.

Canadian Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT) 拥有五分之一的门店，但市值却是 7&I Holdings 的 1.5 倍。 “日本的并购场景可能再也不会一样了，”Leo Lewis 在《金融时报》上说道。

The partnership of the Astar Foundation and Sony is due to launch Soneium, an Ethereum Layer 2. The ASTR token remains at less than half recent highs, and at about a quarter of a spiky peak. With an abundance of Layer 2s already in the market, this move smells like the “not invented here” syndrome.

Astar 基金会和索尼的合作伙伴关系将推出以太坊第 2 层 Soneium。ASTR 代币的价格仍低于近期高点的一半，约为峰值的四分之一。由于市场上已经有大量的 Layer 2，这一举措听起来就像“不是这里发明的”综合症。

The Fed will cut interest rates in September, and the JPY closed Friday nearer to USD 1.40 than to 1.50. Or, in other words, we are still just about where we started the year, when analysts were predicting up to six US rate cuts. Among the analysts we follow, there remains a split opinion regarding the next BOJ move: October or January.

美联储将在 9 月份降息，周五日元收盘价接近 1.40 美元，而非 1.50。或者，换句话说，我们仍处于年初的水平，当时分析师预测美国将降息多达六次。在我们关注的分析师中，对于日本央行下一步行动：10 月还是 1 月，仍存在不同意见。

Otherwise, here is what we are going to cover this week:

否则，这就是我们本周要讨论的内容：