Sheldon Reback

Regional Head of Europe

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.

Latest from Sheldon Reback

Finance

Crypto Robo-Adviser Hedgehog Launches as App With Gemini as Custodian

Parent company Hedgehog Technologies raised $1.6 million in August 2021 to build the platform.

Jun 21, 2023

Close-up photo of a hedgehog in a field or garden.

Finance

Tether Issues USDT on Kava Blockchain; KAVA Token Climbs 5%

Tether is looking to improve the stablecoin's liquidity across multiple blockchains.

Jun 21, 2023

A kava farm (Scot NElson/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons)

Tech

Arpa Network Goes Live on Ethereum Mainnet

Arpa Network will also initiate the minting of the remaining 500 million arpa (ARPA) tokens that have been reserved for staking rewards out of its max supply.

Jun 21, 2023

Finance

Crypto Sites Are Naming Fake Dispute Resolution Organizations: Canada’s Securities Regulator

Most organizations the regulator mentions have little or no online presence and, with one exception, aren’t working with any major crypto platforms.

Jun 21, 2023

Canada's regulatory situation is both clear and more conservative than in the U.S. (Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)

Policy

Stablecoins, DeFi Likely to Be SEC’s Next Targets in U.S. Crypto Crackdown: Berenberg

If USD Coin is targeted by regulators, the impact on Coinbase revenue could be significant, the report said

Jun 21, 2023

Finance

Crypto Exchange Gemini to Expand Asia-Pacific Operations to Capture 'Next Wave' of Growth

The company plans to open an engineering center in India and increase headcount in Singapore to over 100.

Jun 20, 2023

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Tokenization Might Be a $5T Opportunity: Bernstein

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 20, 2023.

Jun 20, 2023

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Is Becoming Illiquid at 147K a Month in Signal of Steady Accumulation

"The market appears to be in a period of quiet accumulation, which suggests an undercurrent of demand," one analyst said.

Jun 20, 2023

Bitcoin investors continue to accumulate coins, shrugging of market uncertainty. (Source: Elizabeth Kay/Unsplash)

Markets

Japan’s Crypto Exchanges Push for 10 Times Leverage on Margin Trading: Bloomberg

The push for revised margin trading caps aims to attract diverse traders, including institutional investors, while enhancing market liquidity.

Jun 20, 2023

Finance

Australian Data Center Startup Arkon Expands to U.S. With $26M in Fresh Funding

CEO Joshua Payne said he expects the acquisition of a data center in Hannibal, Ohio to be "the first of several" over the next year.

Jun 20, 2023

Bitcoin miners are attractive partners to build AI data centers: Bernstein. (Shutterstock)