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.

Tanzeel Akhtar

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Policy

Discord Scammers Lure Users to Fake Exchange With Promise of Free Bitcoin

The scammers may be trying to collect a database of crypto users for sale on the dark web, said Kaspersky.

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Policy

South Africa's Tax Agency Is Clamping Down on Crypto Users: Report

The South African Revenue Service is likely "ensnaring" non-compliant taxpayers, a tax consultancy said in a news report.

Cape Town, South Africa

Finance

Japan’s SBI Adds XRP to Cryptocurrency Lending Service

Users of SBI's cryptocurrency exchange can lend XRP for a return of 0.1% per annum.

SBI Holdings

Markets

Elon Musk Is Back Tweeting About Dogecoin as Price Rises 50%

Musk was apparently welcoming dogecoin's latest price bounce.

Image tweeted by Elon Musk.

Policy

Jack Ma’s Ant Group Agrees to Restructure After Pressure From China’s Regulators: Report

Regulators have been clamping down on Ant Group, even cancelling its expected $35 billion twin IPO late last year.

Ant Group and Alibaba founder Jack Ma

Finance

Ruffer Turns Bitcoin Investment Into $750M Profit in Under 2 Months

"We did not expect immediate fireworks,” said a Ruffer executive.

City of London, UK

Finance

Uphold to Launch Crypto Card in Europe After Optimus Acquisition

The firm plans to start rolling out its multi-asset debit card on the Optimus platform in Europe "shortly."

Credit cards

Finance

Crypto Banking Company BCB Group Hires Former Coinbase UK CEO

Feroz will bring experience "built across the global payments and fintech industry," BCB Group said.

Zeeshan Feroz

Finance

Binance Says It Wants to Get More People Using Crypto With Its New Payments Service

The beta Binance Pay product currently allows users to make and receive payments in five cryptocurrencies and the euro.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

Markets

Canadian Firm Files for Bitcoin ETF on Toronto Stock Exchange

The Accelerate Bitcoin ETF would list on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker “ABTC.”

Toronto Stock Exchange