Jack Schickler

Jack Schickler was a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He previously wrote about financial regulation for news site MLex, before which he was a speechwriter and policy analyst at the European Commission and the U.K. Treasury. He doesn’t own any crypto.

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Policy

Silicon Valley Bank Customers Can Fully Access Funds After FDIC Creates New Bridge Bank

Loans and other services will resume on normal schedule Monday following a switch to a new bridge bank, the regulator said

Silicon Valley Bank was shuttered Friday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Policy

EU Merchants Could Be Required to Accept Digital Euro, Ministers Told

Governments from the euro currency bloc are due to discuss strategic objectives for the CBDC later Monday.

Ministers are set to discuss a digital euro. (Maarten Wouters/Getty Images)

Finance

HSBC Subsidiary to Acquire Silicon Valley Bank's UK Unit for 1 British Pound

Depositors will be protected, the U.K. government said, as it seeks to limit wider economic fallout from the bank's collapse.

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Policy

After Landmark Crypto Law, European Politicians Contemplate Building Their Own Blockchain

"Europeum" could safeguard values like privacy, Belgian Digital Minister Mathieu Michel told CoinDesk, as he seeks to make his country a blockchain hub.

Belgian minister Mathieu Michel (Office of Mathieu Michel)

Policy

Banks Shouldn’t ‘Punish’ Crypto Industry, Republican Senators Urge

A crackdown on digital-assets companies is reminiscent of a campaign targeting gun sales, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was told.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Policy

SWIFT to Conduct More Tests With CBDC Project

The banking network is seeking to build a system that will connect the digital currencies of different countries.

SWIFT está intentando conectar a las CBDC de todo el mundo. (Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images)

Policy

FTX Proposes $4M Bonus Program as It Seeks to Retain Staff

The bankrupt crypto exchange wants to offer supplements up to 94% of salary to avoid sought-after coders quitting

New FTX CEO John J. Ray III (C-Span)

Finance

FTX Reaches $45M Deal to Sell Interest in Sequoia to Abu Dhabi's Investment Arm

The agreement requires approval from a Delaware bankruptcy court as the failed exchange seeks to raise funds for creditors.

(Carmen Martínez Torrón/Getty Images)

Policy

Crypto Lender Celsius Should Continue Exclusive Right to Pursue Novawulf Deal, Judge Says

Enough progress has been made to suggest the plan to set up a new recovery corporation should be the only one on the table, Martin Glenn said

(Marcia Straub/Getty Images)

Policy

AXA Investment Managers Gains French Crypto Registration

Crypto firms are in a race to pass the governance and money laundering checks monitored by the French financial market authority as new EU rules bed in.

(Cristina Arias/Cover/Getty Images)