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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Finance

Institutional crypto trading platform LMAX is exploring sale, IPO

LMAX is working with Morgan Stanley and investment bank KBW to assess its options, which could lead to a sale or a public offering.

Nasdaq sign on a building (CoinDesk Archives)

Finance

Crypto market maker B2C2 held sale talks with multiple potential buyers

The SBI-owned crypto trading firm is said to have attracted takeover interest from a number of suitors over the past 18 months, but valuation has been a sticking point.

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Markets

Bitcoin settles near $65,000 as oil's march toward $100 fails to spook the market

BTC held just under $65,000 and crypto broadly rose on Friday even as Brent crude surged to $97.66, its highest since May, as the Iran conflict persists and traditional markets stay muted.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

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Markets

Bitcoin treasury companies sell up, repay debt, pivot to AI as share prices collapse

Falling share prices, debt obligations and difficult market conditions are forcing former bitcoin accumulators to sell their holdings and restructure operations.

A bridge collapsed into a river. (Ammodramus/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

BitMEX faces proposed class-action suit for theft, insider trading as crypto exchange shuts down

The complaint claims BitMEX designed a system to retain customer collateral and alleges an internal desk accessed private user data during server freezes.

BitMEX logo in front of building (CoinDesk)

Finance

UK digital bond plans hinge on one missing piece: onchain cash

Experts say Britain's digital gilt pilot can unlock trapped liquidity in financial markets only if regulators approve an onchain stablecoin.

UK Prime Minister's official residence and headquarters. (Sgt. Tom Robinson/Wikipedia Commons)


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Markets

Bitcoin retreats from one-month high as oil tops $85, inflation concerns resurface

BTC retreated from a one-month high as WTI crude topped $85 for the first time since June, reigniting inflation concerns and pushing investors toward gold, silver and the safety of bitcoin over altcoins.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Kraken parent expands tokenized stocks to Hong Kong, UK and South Korea equities

Payward's xStocks pushes beyond U.S. equities as competition to bring global stock markets onchain accelerates.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi. (CoinDesk)