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

G7 Officials Stress Need to Regulate Digital Currencies: US Treasury

The U.S. Treasury Department issued a statement following a virtual call with other G7 members.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

Markets

SIX Stock Exchange Joins Venture Opening Up Digital Assets to Swiss Banks

SIX will join Swisscom and Sygnum in a new venture aimed to enable Swiss banks to offer digital assets to their customers.

SIX Swiss Exchange is based in Zurich.

Markets

Crypto Exchange Bittrex Global Lists Tokenized Apple, Amazon, Tesla Stocks for Trading

Bittrex's tokenized shares can be bought in fractions, rather than whole shares.

stocks on screen

Markets

Boerse Stuttgart Group Says Its Crypto Trading App Has Hit €1B Volume in 2020

Germany’s second-largest stock exchange says its trading app Bison exceeded its expectations this year.

Boerse Stuttgart location in Gustav-Heinemann-Platz.

Finance

Standard Chartered, Philippines Bank Issue $187M Blockchain Bond

The proof-of-concept issuance of tokenized bonds was carried out on a blockchain platform built by Standard Chartered's fintech investment unit.

Manilla, Philippines

Markets

Jack Ma’s Ant Group, 3 Other Digital Banks Get OK to Operate in Singapore

The approved digital banks will be able to start operating from Singapore in early 2022.

Singapore

Markets

Ripple CTO Says Majority Vote Would Force the Burning of Billions in XRP

The Ripple exec was responding to a question asking whether a majority vote could force the destruction of XRP held in escrow.

Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz

Markets

Stripe Partnering With Goldman, Citigroup, Others to Offer Checking Accounts, Services: Report

Payments processor Stripe is teaming with some big banks to provide checking accounts and other banking services, according to a report.

stripebtcpayments

Finance

Private German Bank to Launch Cryptocurrency Fund

Hauck & Aufhauser is launching a cryptocurrency fund in January 2021.

Frankfurt, Germany

Markets

In Echo of Bitcoin's Genesis, Mining Pool Embeds Reuters Headline on the Blockchain

Slush Pool has immortalized a potentially iconic Reuters headline on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Reuters headline embedded in Bitcoin's blockchain