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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Casi 7% de la población de España ha invertido en cripto, según autoridad reguladora

La autoridad del mercado de valores de ese país demostró preocupación por la baja concientización de los riesgos del ecosistema cripto a pesar de sus medidas de advertencia en avisos publicitarios.

Una encuesta mostró que casi 7% de los españoles invirtió en cripto. (Kutay Tanir/Getty Images)

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Almost 7% of People in Spain Have Invested in Crypto, Regulator Says

The country's securities-market authority, CNMV, said it's worried about poor appreciation of the risks even after it mandated new crypto ad warnings earlier this year.

Una encuesta mostró que casi 7% de los españoles invirtió en cripto. (Kutay Tanir/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin, Stablecoins the Worst Options for Cross-Border Payments, ECB Study Says

A senior central banker said state-backed digital currencies would be quicker and cheaper.

CBDCs would be better than bitcoin or stablecoins at speeding up cross-border payments, a European Central Bank study says. (Raimund Linke/Getty Images)

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UK Crypto Investors Should Limit Holdings, Financial Regulator Says

The crypto crash only hardened the Financial Conduct Authority’s determination to impose restrictions such as banning refer-a-friend bonuses.

The U.K. Treasury, which needs to propose laws that would extend financial marketing restrictions to crypto. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

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French Lawmaker Calls for Crypto Committee as Legal Questions Loom

A new Senate grouping is needed to educate lawmakers about the risk of crime using virtual assets, the Centrist Union’s Nathalie Goulet told CoinDesk.

The Senate building in Paris. (Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images)

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Digital Euro Needs Curbs to Halt Lending Crunch, ECB Study Finds

The economic evidence appears to support calls to cap how much central bank digital currency people can hold, to stop them fleeing banks all together, the study suggests.

En un principio, el euro digital se utilizará solo para pagos personales. (Koron/Getty Images)

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Direct Blockchain Scrutiny Can Spot Financial Hacks, but Not Easily, German Study Says

Officials can cut out the middleman by examining public ledgers, a report published by the BaFin financial regulator said – but at a cost.

Germany is looking into how financial supervisors can utilize the blockchain. (Richard Klune/Getty Images)

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Según el FMI, la turbulencia cripto no afectará al mercado financiero general

Con la perspectiva económica oscureciéndose, el Fondo Monetario Internacional considera que la inflación y una recesión son riesgos importantes, pero no así las complicaciones dentro del mercado cripto.

Kristalina Georgieva, directora del Fondo Monetario Internacional. (Clemens Bilan/Getty Images)

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IMF Says Crypto Sell-Off Won’t Hit Broader Financial Market

With the economic mood darkening, the Fund sees inflation and a recession as major risks – but not crypto market turbulence.

Kristalina Georgieva, directora del Fondo Monetario Internacional. (Clemens Bilan/Getty Images)

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Unpacking the Latest Bitcoin ETF Rejections

Grayscale and Bitwise saw their bitcoin ETF applications rejected. Have we learned anything new?

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)