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.

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First Midwest Bank Trust Division Holding 29.5K Shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust

First Midwest Bank Trust Division has $14 billion of assets under management and is the third-largest independent Illinois-headquartered bank.

The Grayscale Solana Trust was launched in 2021 as the asset managers 16th product.

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Gryphon Digital Mining to Buy 7.2K S19J Pro Antminers From Bitmain for $48M

Bitmain is scheduled to deliver 600 miners on a monthly basis, with the first delivery starting next month.

Bitcoin mining rigs

Policy

Bank of Thailand: Don't Use Crypto for Payments

The central bank stressed that cryptocurrencies are not legal tender in Thailand.

Buy things with baht, says Thailand's central bank.

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Tetra Trust Receives Nod to Become Regulated Crypto Custodian in Canada

The company was certified by the Alberta government to become the country’s first regulated custodian for crypto assets.

canadian flags

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Bitcoin ETF Would Be Good for Investors and Regulators, Says Former CFTC Chairman

The SEC could use the ETF approval process to improve trading integrity on crypto exchanges, said Timothy Massad.

Timothy Massad, a former chairman of the CFTC

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Jamaica’s Central Bank to Start CBDC Pilot With Financial Institutions in August

The bank plans to expand the trial between September and December.

Jamaican dollars.

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Bybit to Introduce Stricter Customer-Identification Procedures Next Week

Users will have to undergo facial recognition and share identity documents make withdrawals.

Facial recognition technology

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Solrise Finance Raises $3.4M for Non-Custodial Protocol on Solana

Solrise said the capital will be used to make the DeFi ecosystem more accessible to wider investor audiences.

Sunrise

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UK Hedge Fund Marshall Wace to Start Investing in Crypto Assets: Report

The hedge fund plans to invest in areas such as blockchain technology, payments systems for digital currencies and stablecoins.

investment, hedge fund

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Bank of France Carries Out Fifth CBDC Experiment With BNP Paribas, Euroclear

“This experiment made it possible to test the integration of issuance and settlement activities, including exchanges on the secondary market,” said the Bank of France.

The Bank of France is one of Europe's leading voices on CBDCs.