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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Markets

Katy Perry Launches NFTs, Acquires Stake in Theta Labs

The singer known for her hits “Dark Horse” and “Roar” will have a minority interest in Theta, alongside her talent agency, Creative Artists Agency.

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Ripple Hires Mastercard’s Sendi Young as European Managing Director

Young will be responsible for overseeing strategy, including the expansion of Ripple’s network technology, RippleNet.

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Markets

Argo Blockchain Secures $20M Bitcoin-Backed Loan to Expand Texas Data Center

The loan agreement is for a six-month term and will be used to expand Argo’s West Texas data center.

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Bitcoin Miner TeraWulf to Buy 30K Bitmain Mining Machines

The Bitmain Antminer S19j Pro will be delivered from January to June of 2022.

Illuminated racks of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining devices  at the BitCluster cryptocurrency mining farm in Norilsk, Russia.

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Crypto Exchange Kraken Slashes Deposit Fees Across All Digital Assets to Zero

Kraken said it is preparing to provide DeFi products and services from the exchange, a long-term ambition.

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UK Bank NatWest Limits Amount Users Can Transfer to Crypto Exchanges

The bank has seen a "high level" of crypto investment scams, a company spokesman said.

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Singapore’s Central Bank, IMF Launch Global Challenge for CBDC Solutions

The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s “Global CBDC Challenge” will be supported by Amazon Web Services, Mastercard, Hyperledger and others.

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Finance

21Shares Launching World’s First Solana ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange

The exchange-traded product will track the performance of Solana’s native SOL token.

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Finance

Citi Launches ‘Digital Assets Group’ Within Wealth Management Division

It’s the latest megabank to roll out crypto services to at least some of its customers.

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Markets

FTX Follows Binance's Lead With Move Into Tokenized Stocks

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX will allow users to trade tokenized stocks of companies such as Facebook, Google, Netflix, Nvidia, PayPal and Tesla.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried