Masayoshi Son

Several SoftBank-backed companies have also pulled off successful initial public offerings, raising the prospects for more in the future.

Rajeev Misra's renumeration for the past business year more than doubles despite US$13 billion worth of losses.

“This is looking more and more like the perfect storm for SoftBank...The question is whether there is more to come.”

(Dec 16): Masayoshi Son’s Japanese bankers are taking a hard look at their most important client.

SINGAPORE (Nov 11): Masayoshi Son wants investors to believe that a record loss from investments in money-losing start-ups WeWork and Uber Technologies is but a bump in the road. Some are not buying it.

SINGAPORE (Nov 11): SoftBank Group Corp chairman Masayoshi Son is in the kind of pickle that even Jamie Dimon cannot get him out of.

(Nov 6): Masayoshi Son is finally disclosing the damage from SoftBank Group Corp’s bets on WeWork and Uber Technologies Inc.

(July 29): SoftBank will invest the US$2 billion ($2.7 billion) over five years through Grab to help accelerate the development of Indonesia’s digital infrastructure.

SINGAPORE (April 9): Klook, the Hong Kong-based travel booking platform today announced the completion of its US$425 million ($575.3 million) series D funding after it raised over US$225 million in a series D+ round.

TOKYO (Feb 8): Swiss Re said it is in preliminary talks to sell a minority stake to SoftBank Group - a deal that reportedly could be worth US$10 billion ($13.3 billion) or more, in what would be the Japanese firm's biggest financial services deal to d