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 Exchange FTX Launches Perpetual Futures Contracts on VanEck's MVIS Indices

The products trading under the tickers MVDA10 and MVDA25 will use CryptoCompare’s market data and give investors exposure to digital assets.

FTX Collapse: Breaking News & Analysis

Markets

UK’s AML Rules Could Force Up to 50 Crypto Firms to Cease Trading: Report

The FCA has expressed concern that a "significantly high number" of crypto-asset businesses are not meeting its standards on AML.

The offices of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in London. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Markets

Japan's BitFlyer Gives US Clients Access to Bitcoin and Japanese Yen Pair Trading

“The BTC/JPY spot market posted over $30 billion in trading volume, making it one of the world’s largest bitcoin to fiat markets,” says bitFlyer.

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Finance

Online Broker eToro Added 3.1M New Clients in First Quarter: Report

New registrations jumped by more than 200% to 3.1 million, up from 1 million in the same period last year and 5.2 million for the whole of 2020.

eToro

Finance

Metaplex Foundation Launches Solana-Based NFT Marketplace

“Metaplex will do for NFTs what Shopify did for commerce, but takes it one step further by not acting as the middleman,” said musician RAC.

Andre Allen Anjos, also known as RAC

Markets

CrossTower Names Bryan Christian as Global Head of Exchange

Christian will be responsible for managing CrossTower's U.S. and global exchanges, product expansion, and its transaction business.

CrossTower CEO Kapil Rathi

Finance

Belt Finance to Compensate Users Following $6.23M Attack

Belt Finance said it will compensate users who were directly affected in the 4Belt pool or beltBUSD vault and holders of BELT tokens.

treasure, gold

Markets

Goldman Sachs Analyst Says Crypto Is an Alternative to Copper, Not Gold

The analyst noted both bitcoin and copper behave as “risk-on” inflation hedges, while gold is viewed as a haven.

Goldman Sachs

Markets

UK’s Starling Bank to Lift Ban Blocking Payments to Crypto Exchanges in 3 Weeks

The temporary ban was in response to concern about “high levels of suspected financial crime” associated with such payments.

London at sunset.

Markets

ETC Group to List First Bitcoin ETP in London on the Aquis Exchange

This is the first cryptocurrency ETP to be made available for trading on the U.K. market.

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