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

Jim Cramer Tells GameStop to Buy Bitcoin Amid Latest Stock Surge

Cramer's comments came as GameStop shares spiked 100% in late trading.

CNBC's Jim Cramer

Policy

Ex-London Stock Exchange Chief Says UK Should Embrace Crypto Post-Brexit

"It is a good example of a policy area where independence allows us to be more agile," said Xavier Rolet and others in a blog post.

City of London, U.K.

Markets

JPMorgan Carried Out 'Nerdy' Test of Blockchain Payments in Space, Exec Says

The experiment was to trial payments for the internet of things in a "fully decentralized way," said Umar Farooq.

satellite

Finance

Canadian Bank Launching Fiat-Backed Digital Currency in Claimed World First

The bank says its VCAD stablecoin is the first digital currency issued by and backed by deposits with a North American bank.

Canadian dollars

Markets

Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain Starts Trading on the US OTCQX Best Market

The crypto mining company said the news marks an upgrade from its previous presence on the middle-tier OTCQB Venture Market.

Trading screen

Markets

CoinShares Launches Physically Backed Ethereum ETP With $75M in AUM

This is the firm’s second such product after its "BITC" bitcoin ETP was listed on the SIX exchange in January.

Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer of CoinShares at CoinDesk Invest:NYC 2019.

Finance

Swiss Private Bank Bordier & Cie Launches Crypto Trading for Clients

Bordier & Cie clients will be able to buy, hold and trade digital assets such as bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash and tezos.

Geneva, Switzerland

Policy

India’s Central Bank Chief Airs ‘Major Concerns’ About Crypto Risks

Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said he expects the government to "take a call" on cryptocurrencies.

Reserve Bank of India

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Firm Northern Data Plans US Listing to Raise $500M: Report

The Germany-based firm owns the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining facility in Rockdale, Texas.

stocks, exchange

Finance

Bottlepay, a Payments Startup That Lets You Send Bitcoin on Social Media, Raises $15M

The payments platform is built with the Lightning Network scaling solution, which enables cheaper and faster bitcoin transactions.

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