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Glonghui, May 15th — Japan's third-largest bank, Mizuho Financial Group, announced on Friday that its fourth-quarter profit surged by 661%. During the January-March period, the group achieved a net profit of 228.7 billion yen (approximately $1.44 billion), compared to a net profit of 30.1 billion yen in the same period last year. In addition, Mizuho also recorded a record annual net profit of 1.25 trillion yen (about $7.88 billion). The group also announced a share repurchase plan, intending to buy back shares worth up to 100 billion yen.

```htmlGolden Ten Data reported on May 15th that Japan’s Kioxia Corporation announced plans to list in the United States, as it benefits from the global shortage of storage chips, driving the price of this key component to a historic high. The company stated it expects its operating profit for the quarter ending in June to reach 1.3 trillion yen (approximately $8.2 billion), exceeding analysts’ average forecasts. In addition, the company achieved a record profit of 596.8 billion yen in the quarter ending March, also surpassing market expectations. The Tokyo-based company’s rapid growth reflects hyperscale data center operators racing to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, resulting in soaring memory demand. Since the beginning of this year, Kioxia’s share price has surged by approximately 300%. Analysts expect the company’s average operating profit in 2026 to reach 4.2 trillion yen, at which time it will surpass Toyota Motor Corporation to become Japan’s most profitable enterprise.```

BlockBeats News, May 15th, Stablecoin infrastructure and Web3 payment company WSPN announced today the launch of a new product, W Agent. This is a payment capability module for the AI Agent Economy, aiming to enable autonomous AI agents to complete the full payment process on-chain, from discovering goods to placing orders to settlement. WSPN stated that W Agent is built on top of its existing payment stack, W Checkout, and can embed stablecoin payment capabilities into an AI agent's workflow, allowing the agent to execute purchases, API calls, computing power payments, and other transactions on behalf of users or businesses, settling in stablecoins. The core positioning of this system is an integrated "payment + acquiring" solution, covering multi-chain settlements. It introduces an enterprise-level "human-in-the-loop" mechanism to meet compliance and risk control requirements. In its design, W Agent separates order orchestration from on-chain settlement: the AI agent is responsible for order discovery and process coordination, while fund settlement is performed on-chain through W Checkout, reducing custody risks and enhancing auditability. WSPN emphasized that the majority of existing AI Agent payment solutions in the market only cover the payment side or operate in a single-chain environment, often lacking enterprise-level approval processes. W Agent strives to achieve a balance between multi-chain support, two-way transactions (payment and acquiring), and compliance controls.