Nikhilesh De

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering regulators, lawmakers and institutions. He owns < $50 in BTC and < $20 in ETH. He won a Gerald Loeb award in the beat reporting category as part of CoinDesk's blockbuster FTX coverage in 2023, and was named the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers' Journalist of the Year in 2020.

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Regulación

Witnesses Will Vouch for Stablecoins, Digital Dollars in US Senate Hearing Tuesday

Witnesses will discuss stablecoins and tokenized dollars during Tuesday's Senate Banking hearing on the digitization of money.

Christopher Giancarlo (CoinDesk archives)

Regulación

Mapping the Future of the SEC (There's a Nonzero Chance Hester Peirce Takes Over)

The future of the U.S.’s federal securities regulator, and perhaps the direction of cryptocurrency policy, is up in the air. We game out the scenarios.

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Mercados

AML Bitcoin Founder Claims DC Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, US Government Are 'Extorting' Him

AML Bitcoin's Marcus Andrade claims he is being extorted by the U.S. government in a response to Thursday's charges by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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DOJ Indicts Founder of Anti-Money Laundering Bitcoin Project for Money Laundering

Rowland Marcus Andrade, the founder of AML Bitcoin, was indicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges related in part to an initial coin offering conducted in 2017 and 2018.

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Publicidad

Regulación

New York Moves to Lure Crypto Startups as BitLicense Turns Five

Five years after erecting a wall around its market few crypto startups could scale – a wall known as the BitLicense – New York is handing down a ladder.

NYDFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell (NYDFS)

Regulación

BitLicense Recipients

A list of all New York Department of Financial Service BitLicense and limited purpose trust charter recipients.

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Finanzas

Veteran Commodities Trader Chris Hehmeyer Goes All In on Crypto

Hehmeyer Trading is ditching its non-crypto businesses to focus solely on being a market maker in a space its founder, longtime trader Chris Hehmeyer, calls "liberating."

Veteran commodities trader Chris Hehmeyer is steering his firm to full-time market making for the crypto space. (Courtesy Chris Hehmeyer)

Finanzas

'Big 4' Auditor KPMG Launches Crypto Asset Management Tools

KPMG has built a suite of tools designed to make it easier to collate and query data from both traditional databases and blockchains, allowing for streamlined cryptoasset management.

KPMG's Chain Fusion project has been in the works for a year, said project director Sam Wyner. (Eddie Jordan Photos / Shutterstock)

Publicidad

Mercados

New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman Steps Down, President Trump Nominates SEC Chair Jay Clayton to Post [Updated]

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has been nominated to become the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, replacing U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who said he had not resigned.

Former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton (CoinDesk archives)

Regulación

US Fed Chair Says Private Entities Should Not Help Design Central Bank Digital Currencies

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said central banks should design and implement CBDCs, not private entities.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell