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Cars for export await shipment at Kawasaki port. Exports rose 38% in April from a year earlier, official data showed on Thursday, compared with a 30.9% increase expected by economists and following a 16.1% rise in March. | KYODO
Reuters May 20, 2021
Japan’s exports grew the most since 2010 in April while capital spending rose on surging global demand for cars and electronics, lifting hopes that an improvement in trade could help lead the world’s third-largest economy back to growth.
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ThetaRay moves to the cloud on $31 million fund raise 4 hours ago ThetaRay, the Isralei fintech that enables banks to monitor payment traffic to sniff out money laundering risks, has completed a $31 million fundraising round. New investors include Eric Benhamou, investing through Benhamou Global Ventures, and Saints Fund, which has appointed one of its managing partners as an observer to the ThetaRay board. Existing backers OurCrowd, Bank Hapoalim, SBT and others also participated.
The new financing brings ThetaRay s total funding to more than $90 million. The company intends to use the capital raised to market a cloud version of its AI-based anomaly-detection products, and expand its target audiences to any organization that deals in cross-border payments.