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

Swiss Crypto Bank SEBA Wins Hong Kong License

The bank's Hong Kong unit can now deal in and distribute securities, including products related to virtual assets related.

SEBA Bank lobby

Policy

CBDCs Are 'Central' to Innovating Financial Systems, BIS Chief Says

Central banks will have a limited role to play relative to the private sector in CBDC issuance, BIS general manager Agustín Carstens said.

Agustin Carstens (Horacio Villalobos / Getty Images)

Finance

HSBC to Offer Tokenized Securities Custody Service for Institutions

The platform, planned for 2024, complements its new offering for tokenized gold as well as one for issuing digital assets.

(Steve Heap/Shutterstock)

Finance

Ripple Broadens Remittances Between Africa, Gulf States, UK and Australia

At its annual conference, Ripple also announced product enhancements and license updates, including a focus on payments between enterprises and smaller businesses.

Ripple (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Broker sFOX Offers Commission-Free Blockchain Staking from Regulated Custody

“We are providing a gateway to staking without stepping in the middle or taking any revenue or profit,” founder Akbar Thobhani said.

a rank of safe deposit boxes

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Ordinals Protocol Token Jumps 50%

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 7, 2023.

ORDI price chart (CoinGeko)

Policy

Coinbase Blocked in Kazakhstan for Breaking New Digital Assets Law: Report

Issuance, circulation, and offering trading of "unsecured digital assets" is prohibited outside the country's financial center under laws that came into effect earlier this year.

(Alpha Photo/Flickr)

Markets

SHIB, DOGE Top Open Futures Rankings as Bitcoin Rally Spurs Risk-Taking

SHIB and DOGE have seen highest percentage growth in futures open interest since Nov. 1, outshining bitcoin and ether in a sign of increased investor risk appetite in the crypto market.

DOGE Meme shiba inu (Atsuko Sato)

Finance

FTX Relaunch Effort Includes Celsius Winner Proof Group, Sources Say

Plans to bring Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange back to life include the Silicon Valley investment firm Proof Group, which was part of the Fahrenheit consortium that successfully bid for bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius.

FTX former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. (MIT Bitcoin Club, Mercatus Center, Cointelegraph/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Smart Contract Platform Llama Raises $6M From Investors Including Polygon, Aave Founders

The firm aims to allow blockchain governance protocols to encode role-based functionality.

Llama co-founders Austin Green and Shreyas Hariharan (Llama)