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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Do Kwon's Millions Are Not in South Korea, Prosecutors Say: Report

South Korea has requested the extradition of the Terraform Labs CEO after his recent arrest in Montenegro.

Terra Community AMA with Do Kwon (April 2021)  (Terra, modified by CoinDesk)

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Robinhood Faces $10.2M Penalty From Multiple U.S. States Over Technical Failures, Investor Harm

The settlement follows an investigation into Robinhood platform outages in March 2020 spearheaded by a regulators in seven states including California and Alabama.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

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U.S. Treasury Warns DeFi Is Used by North Korea, Scammers to Launder Dirty Money

The department's first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.

U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Japan Regulator Flags 4 Crypto Exchanges Including Bybit for Operating Without Registration

Bitget, BitForex and MEXC Global were also named in the Financial Services Agency's warning letter.

(Shutterstock)

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Dubai’s Crypto Industry Welcomes New Licensing Regime Amid Global Regulatory Uncertainty

The emirate’s ambitious framework tackles a broad range of assets and activities, designed to attract firms seeking regulatory clarity.

Dubai (Lu ShaoJi/Getty)

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Australia’s Central Bank Taps Mastercard and Others to Test CBDC Use Cases

The projects will take part in the country’s central bank digital currency pilot, expected to wrap later this year.

Reserve Bank of Australia (Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Nigeria Picks Bola Tinubu as President Amid Cash Shortages

Tinubu will replace Muhammadu Buhari, whose government issued the eNaira and banned banks from interacting with crypto firms.

Nigerian flag (Emmanuel Ikwuegbu/Unsplash)

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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Plans to Let Customers of Its Nonbank Members Trade Crypto

The exchange is trying to meet the demand for digital assets while mitigating the risks.

(Nicholas Cappello/Unsplash)

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FATF Agrees on Action Plan to Drive Implementation of Global Crypto Norms

The global financial crime watchdog's plenary, made up of 206 members including observer organizations like the UN, also agreed to take stock of what jurisdictions have been doing so far.

The FATF, a global anti-money-laundering watchdog, said many countries have failed to implement its standards for crypto. (NASA/Unsplash)

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Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Additional Bank Fraud Charges in New Indictment

The document calls on the former FTX CEO to forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of assets, which in many cases have already been seized by the U.S. government.

Sam Bankman-Fried leaving court on Feb. 16, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)