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

Goldman Sachs Plans to Offer Ether Options: Report

In March, the investment bank relaunched its cryptocurrency trading desk after a three-year hiatus.

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Markets

Paul Tudor Jones Could Go 'All In' on Inflation Trades, Wants 5% Bitcoin Allocation

Jones sees BTC as a great way to protect wealth over the long run.

Paul Tudor Jones (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Robin Hood)

Finance

China’s Xiong’an New Area Begins Using Digital Yuan for Salary Payments

The country is testing the currency in different pilots.

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Policy

Italian Regulator Says Unsupervised Spread of Crypto Is Cause for Concern: Report

Cryptocurrencies could facilitate illegal activity and undermine central banks' ability to conduct monetary policy, Consob Chairman Paolo Savona said.

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Finance

Hut 8 Mining's Underwriters Agree to Buy $82M in Stock Ahead of Nasdaq Listing

The shares are scheduled to make their debut on Nasdaq next week.

Bitcoin mining rigs

Markets

Making Bitcoin Legal Tender in El Salvador an 'Interesting Experiment,' Central Banking Official Says

At the same time, the BIS executive cast doubts on the cryptocurrency as a "means of payment."

BIS headquarters in Basil, Switzerland.

Finance

Silvergate Bank to Discontinue Binance USD Deposits, Withdrawals

“We are working hard to provide an alternative USD solution,” the exchange told traders in a widely shared email whose authenticity CoinDesk confirmed.

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Markets

Bank of France, Swiss National Bank Begin Cross-Border CBDC Experiment

The banks will experiment with cross-border settlements of two wholesale CBDCs and a French digital financial instrument on a distributed ledger technology platform.

Geneva, Switzerland

Markets

Kraken to No Longer Offer Margin Trading for US Investors Who Don't Meet 'Certain' Requirements

Kraken said the changes come due to regulatory guidance about leveraged digital asset transactions.

Cryptocurrency prices on Kraken, May 22, 2021.

Markets

Bram Cohen’s Chia Drives Hard Disk Demand in Europe: Report

Research by Context shows just under 200,000 enterprise-grade nearline storage devices of 10TB capacity were sold to end-users in Europe this April.

Chia founder Bram Cohen