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Helene Braun

Exchanges & TradFi Reporter

Helene is a New York-based markets reporter at CoinDesk, covering the latest news from Wall Street, the rise of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds and updates on crypto markets. She is a graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program and has appeared on CBS News, YahooFinance and Nasdaq TradeTalks. She holds BTC and ETH.

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Finance

Coinbase Losses Expected to Narrow; Analysts Seek Details About International Exchange

Coinbase will report its first-quarter earnings results after the market closes on Thursday.

May 3, 2023

Coinbase (COIN) reports fourth quarter earnings on Thursday and is expected to post strong numbers as trading volume picked up in the last few months of the year. (Piggybank/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Trading Platform Enclave Starts Fully Encrypted Spot Exchange

The new platform is secured by independent attestors, including Blockdaemon, Ava Labs, Republic Crypto and Enclave.

May 3, 2023

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Finance

PayPal to Enable On-Chain Transfers From Venmo Accounts, Including to On-Chain Wallets

The feature will become available in May, PayPal's Jose Fernandez da Ponte said during a panel at Consensus 2023.

Apr 28, 2023

PayPal's crypto lead Jose Fernandez da Ponte says PayPal's new stablecoin, PYUSD, is "an extension of the PayPal balance." Does that include PayPal's interest revenue? (CoinDesk/Helene Braun)

Finance

WisdomTree CEO Says Crypto Is 'Natural Evolution' of ETF Products

CEO Jonathan Steinberg discussed his company’s soon-to-launch crypto wallet for trading tokenized real world assets such as gold. Blockchain brings democratization to traditional finance, he tells CoinDesk Editor-in-Chief Kevin Reynolds.

Apr 26, 2023

WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg (left)(Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Coinbase Receives License to Operate in Bermuda

In March, the company was reported to be exploring options to launch an offshore platform.

Apr 20, 2023

Coinbase's Base blockchain has gone live (Chesnot/Getty Images)

Finance

Metropolitan Commercial Bank Is Almost Done Exiting Crypto Business

The New York-based bank has only $278.5 million in crypto-related deposits left, according to a filing.

Apr 20, 2023

(Paul Brennan/Pixabay)

Finance

BNY Mellon CEO Says the Bank Is Going 'Incredibly Slow' on Crypto

Robin Vince said the lender won't be as aggressive as other banks have been in trying to gain crypto deposits.

Apr 18, 2023

(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Finance

Payments Firm Nuvei’s Ties With FTX Questioned in Spruce Point Capital Report

Nuvei's shares fell by as much as 6% in premarket trading after Spruce Point warned of a 50% downside, but rebounded into positive territory mid-morning.

Apr 18, 2023

(Nuvei)

Policy

NY Financial Regulator Adopts Virtual Currency Assessment Rule

The regulation affects only companies with a state-issued BitLicense.

Apr 17, 2023

NYDFS Superintendent Adrienne Harris in conversation with Chainalysis co-founder Jonathan Levin at Links 2022. (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

Finance

CME to Add Daily Expirations on Bitcoin and Ether Futures Options Contracts

Contracts on micro-sized BTC and ETH futures will also have daily expirations, up from three times a week now.

Apr 17, 2023

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