Tanzeel Akhtar

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.

Tanzeel Akhtar

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Finance

Nike and Hermès File Lawsuits for Trademark Infringement as Fashion Collides With NFTs

The sportswear brand says online sneaker reseller StockX is “blatantly freeriding” on its trademark.

Hermes Birkin (EmmaKisstina/flickr)

Finance

Muneeb Ali’s Trust Machines Raises $150M

Participating investors include Breyer Capital, Digital Currency Group, GoldenTree, Hivemind and Union Square Ventures.

Blockstack PBC CEO Muneeb Ali

Finance

Loopring Names CTO Steve Guo as CEO, Replacing Founder Wang

Guo replaces Daniel Wang, who will work as an adviser to the firm and focus on developing its layer 2 strategy.

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Finance

Paris Hilton Drops Autobiographical NFTs on Origin Story Marketplace

Hilton’s NFT collection features Superplastic’s synthetic superstar, Dayzee, and is being released on Origin Protocol.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 26: Paris Hilton seen leaving Bravo's Late Night Show with Andy Cohen in Manhattan on January 26, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images)

Finance

Grayscale Launches First Equity ETF Tracking New Joint Index With Bloomberg

The ETF will invest in companies in the digital assets space by tracking the performance of the Bloomberg Grayscale Future of Finance Index.

Grayscale Offers New Trusts in 5 More Cryptos Including Chainlink, Filecoin

Finance

Sheila Warren Leaves World Economic Forum to Lead Crypto Lobbying Group

The Crypto Council for Innovation's founding members include Coinbase, Fidelity and Paradigm.

Sheila Warren (Crypto Council for Innovation)

Finance

Blockchain Firm Valereum Acquires 90% of Gibraltar Stock Exchange

The company is looking to build an exchange that will link the fiat and crypto markets.

Gibraltar (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Finance

Brevan Howard Taps Talent From Jump Capital and Gemini for New Crypto Unit

The European hedge fund has now expanded its team to more than 30 employees and 12 portfolio managers, Bloomberg reported.

The offices of Brevan Howard Asset Management in London, U.K. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Policy

DOJ Indicts Cryptsy Exchange Founder for Stealing $1M in Crypto

The charges against Paul Vernon, who was CEO of the now-defunct crypto exchange, include tax evasion, wire fraud and money laundering.

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Finance

Chainlink Labs Hires Diem Co-Creator Christian Catalini as Technical Adviser

In his new role, Catalini will primarily work on a new protocol for decentralized inter-blockchain messaging, data and token movements.

Christian Catalini (Chainlink Labs)