Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble and collapse. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. Before that, he worked for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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Pananalapi

Eightco shares jump on $125 million funding commitment, investment in OpenAI, Beast Industries

Eightco holds a digital asset treasury that includes some 277 million WLD tokens and 11,000 ether.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

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Crypto accounting firm Cryptio raises $45 million as institutional demand accelerates

The company's platform tracks digital assets, storage locations and crypto loans, enabling financial institutions and corporations to produce accounting records and financial reports.

Stacks of 100 dollar bills (Dmytro Glazunov/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Merkado

Bitcoin steady near $70,000 as rising open interest hints at cautious, bearish positioning

Bitcoin traded around $69,800 as open interest rose to $102 billion, suggesting defensive, bearish bets while altcoins outperformed in a risk-off macro backdrop.

Bear. (Photo by Sean Benesh on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Patakaran

Crypto-friendly fintech Revolut gains full UK banking license

The move is a major step in Revolut's goal to become a global digital bank. Services like crypto and stock trading remain separate.

A Revolut card (Kay/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Pananalapi

European Central Bank unveils tokenized finance plan to bolster EU's financial autonomy

The Appia roadmap for a euro-based tokenized financial system is part of the European Union’s push to reduce reliance on foreign financial infrastructure.

ECB headquarters Germany. (Photo: Thomas Wolf-Wikimedia Commons/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Binance.US names compliance veteran as CEO as regulation, competition get tougher

The appointment of Stephen Gregory comes as U.S. crypto exchanges intensify competition and broaden offerings beyond digital assets.

(Source: Binance.US)

Patakaran

Ghana opens crypto trading sandbox with 11 firms under new VASP law

The companies will be able to run their products in a controlled environment while regulators monitor risks and compliance.

Ghana's flag (Planet Volumes/Unsplash+/Modified by ConDesk)

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Binance sues Wall Street Journal as newspaper says U.S. Dept. of Justice is investigating Iran transactions

The situation adds pressure to Binance, which is already operating under a compliance monitor following its $4.3 billion anti-money laundering and sanctions settlement in 2023.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)