Sandali Handagama

Sandali Handagama is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor for policy and regulations, EMEA. She is an alumna of Columbia University's graduate school of journalism and has contributed to a variety of publications including The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Nation and Popular Science. Sandali doesn't own any crypto and she tweets as @iamsandali

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Policy

Former NYSE Broker to Pay $54M to Settle CFTC Crypto Fraud Charges

Michael Ackerman pleaded guilty in 2021 to accusations that he defrauded some 150 investors for $33 million in a digital asset trading scheme.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be granted far-reaching authority over crypto trading and regulation in a new Senate bill. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

EU Publishes Digital Euro Bill Featuring Privacy Controls, Offline Guarantee

Officials want a digital payment system available to “everyone, everywhere, for free.”

EU officials are touting the benefits of a digital euro. (Ervins Strauhmanis/Flickr)

Policy

EU’s Controversial Smart Contract Kill-Switch Rules Finalized by Negotiators

Lawmakers and governments have reached a deal on the Data Act despite protests from the blockchain industry.

The EU is looking to govern data from connected devices (Pete Linforth/Pixabay)

Policy

UK Needs Bespoke Legal Framework for Using Crypto as Collateral: Law Commission

The Commission, funded by the Ministry of Justice, also pushed for legislation to treat crypto as a new type of property in its latest set of recommendations.

The U.K. Law Commission wants crypto and NFTs to be treated as personal property. (Reinaldo Sture/Unsplash)

Consensus Magazine

Berlin: The Center for Decentralized Finance – and Techno Music

When the tech hub of Europe meets a society that prizes financial autonomy, the result is a crypto community that practices the very decentralization it preaches. Case in point: Blockchain Week Berlin, the flagship annual conference of the No. 10 spot in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023, is a self-organized, crypto-agnostic community initiative.

berlin germany (Florian Wehde/Unsplash)

Policy

Zimbabwe's Gold-Backed Digital Token Won't Fix the Country's Currency Woes, Economists Say

Sound macroeconomic policies like raising interest rates and bringing down the country's deficit could dampen Zimbabwe's currency instability, economists said.

Zimbabwe flag (Nabil Kamara/ GettyImages)

Policy

Singapore's MAS Proposes Design Framework for Interoperable Digital Asset Networks

Banking giants like Standard Chartered, HSBC and Citi are set to run multiple tokenization trials across wealth management, fixed income and foreign exchange.

Singapore (Shutterstock)

Policy

Japanese Crypto Issuers Won't Pay Taxes on Unrealized Gains, Govt. Clarifies

Token issuers in the country were taxed for unrealized gains from holding on their own tokens.

(Shutterstock)

Policy

Binance Ordered to Halt Offering Crypto Services in Belgium by Markets Regulator

The crypto exchange is accused of serving Belgian customers from countries outside the European Economic Area in violation of the law, the Financial Services and Markets Authority said.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Sam Bankman-Fried Can't Subpoena Law Firm Fenwick & West for Documents, U.S. Judge Rules

The founder of collapsed crypto enterprise FTX had argued legal advice from the Silicon Valley law firm was "at the core" of the government's criminal allegations against him.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)