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

Crypto Miner Hive Blockchain to List Shares on Nasdaq

The shares will continue to trade on the TSX Venture Exchange.

Crypto mining machines

Markets

Spain's BBVA Opening Bitcoin Trading Service to Private Banking Clients in Switzerland

BBVA said the service will be available only to clients in Switzerland because of the country's clear regulations and the widespread adoption of digital assets.

BBVA headquarters in Madrid

Finance

NASCAR Driver to Be Paid Entirely in Crypto in Voyager Sponsorship Deal

Voyager Digital is sponsoring Landon Cassill in a 19-race deal. He’ll be paid in a portfolio led by litecoin.

Landon Cassill at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 29, 2021, in Concord, N.C.

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MSCI Is Considering Launching Crypto Indexes: Report

The index publisher’s CEO said he has spoken to experts and didn’t give a timeframe for a decision.

Trading screen

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Crypto.com Expands Institutional Reach With Fireblocks Integration

Fireblocks’ network includes liquidity providers, OTCs, hedge funds and digital asset managers.

Left to right: Fireblocks co-founders Pavel Berengoltz, Michael Shaulov and Idan Ofrat.

Markets

BIS Launches Innovation Hub With Nordic Central Banks Focusing on CBDCs

The launch of the Nordic hub marks the fifth BIS Innovation Hub Centre to be opened in the past two years.

BIS headquarters in Basil, Switzerland.

Finance

Norway’s Arcane Crypto to List an ETP With Valour Later This Year

The ETP will be based on Arcane's cryptocurrency fund and will allow investors to buy and sell the product through their brokers.

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Step Finance to Aggregate Solana’s Decentralized Exchanges Onto Dashboard

The Solana ecosystem is backed heavily by Sam Bankman-Fried, and has been pitched as a faster, cheaper alternative to Ethereum.

A mockup of the Step Finance dashboard

Markets

Bakkt Allows Users to Send Bitcoin, Gift Cards From Its Wallet

New functionality allows users to email crypto assets to people who don’t use the app.

Wallets

Markets

Former Coinbase Legal Exec Lempres Joins Silvergate Capital as Chairman

Lempres takes over from Dennis Frank, who had served as chairman since 1996.

Silvergate bank