Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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Policy

UK Regulator Publishes Guidance for Crypto Marketing Regime

The Financial Conduct Authority’s new ad regime took effect in October.

FCA building with logo (FCA)

Policy

UK's National Crime-Fighting Agency Seeks Six Crypto Investigators

A crime bill passed last week gives law enforcement agencies more powers to seize and freeze crypto.

A U.K. policeman seen from behind stands in the middle of road

Policy

PayPal Faces SEC Subpoena Over Its PYUSD Stablecoin

In August, PayPal said it would introduce its own U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD.

paypal logo on a smartphone booting up the payments app (Marques Thomas/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Swiss National Bank to Work With SIX Digital Exchange, 6 Banks on Wholesale CBDC Pilot

The Helvetia Phase III pilot will create a tokenized version of the franc as a settlement instrument between financial institutions for digital assets on the exchange.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

St.Galler Kantonalbank Works With SEBA Bank to Offer Swiss Customers Bitcoin, Ethereum

The first tier of customers will be wealth-management clients; retail customers are next in line, and other coins and staking services are planned, said SEBA Bank's Christian Bieri.

SEBA Bank lobby

Markets

First Mover Americas: Trading Giants Like Jane Street Might Support Blackrock’s BTC ETF

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 1, 2023.

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

FTX, Alameda Wallets Move More Than $78 Million in Crypto to Exchanges: Spotonchain

The tokens were moved to Binance and Coinbase overnight in accordance with a bankruptcy court order allowing the sale of some FTX assets, data from Spotonchain show.

FTX Logo

Policy

CFTC Awards $16M to U.S. Whistleblowers; Most Tips Were Crypto-Related

Crypto continues to have pervasive fraud and other illegality, Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero said.

Christy Goldsmith Romero (CFTC)

Policy

BitGo Granted German Crypto Custody License by BaFin

BitGo had already been storing crypto assets under the regulator's supervision since 2019 as part of a transitional regime, the firm said.

CEO of BitGo Mike Belshe in a chair on-stage at Consensus 2023

Finance

Celestia Airdrops TIA Token as Network Goes Live, Claims Start of 'Modular Era'

Celestia has released its mainnet beta after issuing tokens to 580,000 users.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)