Tanzeel Akhtar

European Reporter

Tanzeel Akhtar has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes Africa, Financial Times, The Street, Citywire, Investing.com, Euromoney, Yahoo! Finance, Benzinga, Kitco News, African Business Magazine, Hedge Week, Campden Family Office, Modern Investor, Spear's Wealth Management Magazine, Global Investor, ETF.com, ETF Stream, CIO UK, Funds Global Asia, Portfolio Institutional, Interactive Investor, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoNews.com, Bitcoin.com, The Local, The Next Web, Mining Journal, Money Marketing, Marketing Week and more. Tanzeel trained as a foreign correspondent at the University of Helsinki, Finland and newspaper journalist at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature from the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and completed a semester abroad as an ERASMUS student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is NCTJ Qualified - Media Law, Public Administration and passed the Shorthand 100WPM with distinction. She does not currently hold value in any digital currencies or projects.

Latest from Tanzeel Akhtar

Finance

DeFi Platform Kava Launches $185M Fund to Onboard New Projects

The Ignition Fund will be used to speed up the process of adding vetted projects to the Kava Ecosystem.

Set 22, 2021

Finance

Ex-ConsenSys Ventures Head Kavita Gupta Raising Over $50M for New Fund

The female-led fund is oversubscribed for the first fundraising round at more than $30 million and could raise as much as $100 million eventually. It plans blockchain investments for a “multi-chain” world.

Set 21, 2021

Kavita Gupta, founder of Delta Blockchain Fund (Fintech.TV)

Finance

FTX Expands in Bahamas With Registered Subsidiary

The Nassau-headquartered unit has been registered by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas as a digital assets business.

Set 20, 2021

Lighthouse, Nassau, Bahamas. (Viola/Pixabay)

Finance

21Shares Crypto ETP Director Laurent Kssis Departs

Laurent Kssis oversaw the firm’s rapid expansion into crypto-linked investment products.

Set 20, 2021

Finance

Bankman-Fried Says Stricter Regulation of Crypto Exchanges Would Be Positive

FTX’s CEO said a ban on stablecoins would be “sad.”

Set 20, 2021

Policy

FTX-Owned Derivatives Exchange ZUBR Approved in Gibraltar as a DLT Provider

The exchange had previously received in-principle approval in March 2020.

Set 17, 2021

Finance

Games Maker Animoca Brands to Acquire Majority Stake in NFT Platform Bondly

The firm’s investment in Bondly will help drive mass NFT adoption across its portfolio companies operating in gaming, sports, entertainment and collectibles.

Set 17, 2021

Finance

Blockchain Social Network Minds Putting 25% of Its Balance Sheet Into Crypto

Minds is allocating 5% of its cash to bitcoin, 10% to ether and 10% to USDC.

Set 16, 2021

Minds CEO Bill Ottman, center (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Revolut Is WeWork’s First Enterprise Member to Pay for Office Space in Bitcoin

The digital bank is using BTC to pay for a 300-worker office in Dallas, its largest in the U.S.

Set 16, 2021

A pedestrian walks past the entrance to the We Work co-working office space, operated by the parent company We Co., on Eastcheap in London, U.K., on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. While WeWork has been rapidly expanding in Canada, the New York-based company is facing challenges on multiple fronts with Landlords in London and New York the most exposed to any further deterioration at the co-working firm. Photographer: Bryn Colton/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Finance

Australia’s zkTube Labs Raises $15M for Its Ethereum Layer 2 Protocol

Funding will be used for the operation of zkTube’s mainnet, which launched on Sept. 10.

Set 16, 2021

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