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

Kraken parent Payward to become first crypto firm to buy a EU bank as it expands into deposits, lending

Payward agreed to buy Lithuania’s Saldo Bank, which holds $190 million in total assets, securing an EU license for deposits and lending.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi sits at a panel discussion at Consensus Miami. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin holds above $83,000 ahead of U.S. inflation data as altcoins lag

Bitcoin briefly reached $84,000 before easing back, while the CoinDesk 80 fell 0.6% since midnight as traders waited for U.S. inflation data.

Altcoins lag ahead of CPI (CoinDesk data)

Markets

S&P 500 options are the hottest bet on this Hyperliquid exchange

Hypercall, an exchange built on Hyperliquid, says most of its $640 million in volume since June has come from the index.

Trading desk. (TyliJura/Pixabay)

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Finance

Standard Chartered unlocks direct bitcoin and ether trading for affluent UAE clients

The bank manages custody and settlement in-house via a closed-loop model, removing the need for separate crypto wallets.

Standard Chartered London (Shkuru Afshar/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Largest Philippines crypto exchange, Coins.ph, said to face central bank regulatory action

The exchange, which has over 18 million customers, is said to have handled business transactions involving restricted offshore gaming and gambling companies.

Map centered on the Philippines

Policy

UK crypto trader says almost $800,000 lost in knife assault as wrench attacks proliferate

A crypto trader in the U.K. claimed masked intruders stole nearly $800,000 in cryptocurrency at knifepoint, furthering concerns of "wrench attacks" spreading in the country.

A man holds a penknife in a threatening manner.

Markets

Bitcoin, ether slip and rebound as South Korean stocks slide on AI-related concerns

Investors are positioning ahead of today's bank earnings reports and Wednesday’s U.S. inflation data.

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Tech

Ledger says 'spy' chip inside CryptoBilis Ledger devices transmitted wallet keys over mobile network

Ledger announced MediaMarket Saturn stopped selling devices after a customer found a corrupted signer in Germany.

A Ledger hardware wallet resting on a computer keyboard.