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

Buterin Warns Followers Not to Take Out Personal Loans to Buy Crypto

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter to warn his followers not to take personal loans to purchase cryptocurrencies.

Vitalik Buterin at DEVCON 2018

Markets

Crypto Bank Sygnum Tokenizes Shares, Eyes Public Offering

The regulated Swiss firm is now eyeing a dual listing of shares in Switzerland and Singapore in partnership with the SIX Digital Exchange.

Zurich, Switzerland

Policy

Bank of France’s Deputy Governor Discusses CBDC Progress, Regulatory Changes

The Bank of France’s deputy governor said there has been a “hands-on approach” with the bank’s experiment to launch a digital euro for the general public.

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Markets

Revolut App Adds 4 Cryptos to Buying, Selling Service

The fintech firm added eos, omg network, tezos and 0x for its European users.

Revolut app

Markets

Sweden Considering Whether to Switch to the E-Krona: Report

Sweden's central bank has begun to study the feasibility of moving the country to a digital currency.

Stockholm, Sweden

Finance

Multicoin Capital Leads $1.15M Seed Round for DeFi Protocol Swivel Finance

The decentralized protocol says its offerings of fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives will place it in a unique position in Defi.

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Policy

3 Chinese E-Commerce Giants Join Latest Digital Yuan Lottery Trial: Report

Didi, Meituan and Bilibili are reportedly taking part in the latest test of the digital yuan, allowing lottery winners to spend the digital currency online.

Lucky Chinese coins

Finance

JPMorgan Completes Live Blockchain Repo Trade Ahead of New Product Launch

The live repo trade used a blockchain application built in-house, as well as the bank's jpm coin.

JPMorgan

Markets

Kenyans Can Now Buy and Sell Crypto Through Paxful's P2P Marketplace

Paxful has partnered with Kenya-based remittance network BitLipa to allow users to buy and sell bitcoin and the tether stablecoin.

Nairobi, Kenya

Tech

SpaceChain Awarded $585K Grant to Co-Develop Decentralized Satellite System

U.K.-based SpaceChain beat 13 other national applicants to secure the funding.

Illustration of NASA's TESS satellite