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

Customers Bank Said to Debank Some Digital Asset Hedge Funds

The move is not a widespread debanking of hedge-fund clients, but rather the offboarding of inactive accounts, one person said.

Jun 7, 2024

A Customers Bank poster at Consensus 2022.

Markets

RoaringKitty a GameStop Billionaire by Friday? Crypto Traders Are Placing 50% Odds

A new market on betting application Polymarket has seen over $120,000 in trader placed on Keith Gill making ten figures on his GameStop equity and options holdings.

Jun 7, 2024

Keith Gill, a.k.a Roaring Kitty, returned to Youtube (Youtube)

Finance

Coinbase Wallet Adds Crypto Trading Alerts From Notifi

"If you're not constantly monitoring what's happening on-chain it's impossible to keep up," said Notifi CEO Paul Kim.

Jun 6, 2024

A look at the new Coinbase Wallet (Coinbase)

Finance

Franklin Templeton Weighs New Crypto Fund Investing in Tokens Beyond Bitcoin, Ether: Report

The private fund would offer exposure to a range of cryptocurrencies and potentially provide staking rewards, The Information reported.

Jun 6, 2024

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton President and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Crypto Regulations Are Moving Against a CBDC and Non-Compliant Stablecoins Like Tether: JPMorgan

Out of four recent crypto regulatory initiatives, the stablecoin bill has the highest chance of being passed before the U.S. presidential election, the report said.

Jun 6, 2024

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Fluctuates Around $71K, Consolidating This Week's Rally

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 6, 2024.

Jun 6, 2024

Markets

Meme Coin Institutional Holdings Surged Since January, Led by DOGE, SHIB, PEPE

Institutional investors on crypto exchange Bybit increased meme coin allocations to a high of $300 million in April from $63 million at the start of the year.

Jun 6, 2024

Policy

Crypto Remains Sidelined as EU Election Kicks Off

Voters will choose the more than 700 MEPs who may drive the next wave of regulation around crypto.

Jun 6, 2024

The EU's parliamentary elections start June 6. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

Tech

IOTA Kickstarts EVM Targeting DeFi, Real World Assets

The EVM will let developers build applications with smart contracts that run on the IOTA network.

Jun 5, 2024

(Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Binance Asks UK Competition Tribunal to Throw Out Most of Collusion Case: Reuters

The case relates to the delisting of the BSV token in 2019.

Jun 5, 2024