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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Policy

Philippines' central bank says Binance and its local partner lack licenses to operate

Binance and its local partner do not hold the necessary license required to operate in the country, the Philippine central bank said, according to a local media report.

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Finance

Singapore bank DBS to offer tokenized gold to retail customers

Each token is backed by one gram of physical gold held by DBS in a dedicated vault in Singapore.

Close-up of stacked gold bars. (Jingming Pan/Unsplash)

Finance

Mastercard prepares for a future where AI agents make payments

The company is working with Coinbase, Stripe and other companies to build trusted payment systems for AI-driven commerce.

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Markets

Zcash, Hyperliquid tokens lead losses as traders bet against a bitcoin bounce

Crypto markets are under pressure ahead of key U.S. inflation data due later Wednesday.

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Finance

Japan's three largest banks aim for joint stablecoin issue by March

MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho will establish a council to explore operational frameworks and prepare for the issuance of stablecoins.

Japan flag in front of a building (Roméo A./Unsplash)

Markets

XRP market shows signs of capitulation as holders sell at loss

XRP holders are capitulating, according to data tracked by Glassnode. That suggests a bottom may be near.

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Policy

UK financial regulator moves to allow mutual funds 10% exposure to crypto ETNs

The Financial Conduct Authority proposed allowing some investment schemes to add exposure to crypto exchange-traded notes.

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Finance

Trad.Fi, W3 target $650 million in onchain private credit using AI evaluation

Equipment-financing lender Trad.Fi is working with W3 to automate capital workflows and bring real-economy business lending onto public blockchain rails.

Onchain credit. (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

Finance

A16z, Paradigm lead $175 million bet to move global credit markets onchain

Morpho secured $175 million from Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit as the lending protocol seeks to become foundational infrastructure for onchain credit markets.

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