Sheldon Reback

Regional Head of Europe

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 of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist 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.

Latest from Sheldon Reback

Finance

Coinbase's Base Prepares for Mainnet Launch With Slew of Security Audits

Base has engaged with over 100 external security researchers to test its forthcoming layer 2 blockchain.

Jun 29, 2023

Finance

Julius Baer Eyes Expansion to Dubai for Crypto Services: Bloomberg

The expansion would be the private bank's first for its crypto offering beyond its native Switzerland, where it has provided digital asset services since the start of 2020.

Jun 29, 2023

Blockchain.com abrirá una oficina en Dubai. (Shutterlk/Shutterstock)

Finance

Developer Six Clovers Rolls Out Cross-Border Crypto Payments on Sui

The Versal Network will allow companies to transact in stablecoins and central bank digital currencies.

Jun 29, 2023

Payments network built on Sui (Steve Johnson/Unsplash)

Tech

Tokenization Is Likely to Transform Infrastructure and Financial Markets: Bank of America

Implementation of blockchain technology will accelerate as the opportunity cost of uncaptured efficiencies increases, the report said.

Jun 29, 2023

Binary digits superimposed on a cityscape with three computer screens in the foreground.

Finance

Ex-Genesis CEO Michael Moro to Head Crypto Derivatives Exchange Startup

Ankex, a non-custodial exchange with a centralized order book, is being spun out of crypto custody firm Qredo, which Moro joined in January.

Jun 29, 2023

Genesis Trading Michael Moro at the Crypto Bahamas event in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

FTX Customers Have Until End-September to Submit Bankruptcy Claims

Former customers will receive an email containing a link to the Customer Claims Portal.

Jun 29, 2023

Policy

Former NYSE Broker to Pay $54M to Settle CFTC Crypto Fraud Charges

Michael Ackerman pleaded guilty in 2021 to accusations that he defrauded some 150 investors for $33 million in a digital asset trading scheme.

Jun 28, 2023

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be granted far-reaching authority over crypto trading and regulation in a new Senate bill. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Ledger Introduces Institutional-Grade Trading Network

The network has a range of partner firms, including Crypto.com, Bitstamp, Huobi, Wintermute and Komainu.

Jun 28, 2023

(Cleveland Trust Co/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Horizen Scraps Privacy Coin Moniker Amid Regulatory Scrutiny

Horizen says it's now simply a layer 0 blockchain after deprecating the shielded pools on its main chain.

Jun 28, 2023

"Zen will no longer be considered a privacy coin." (Nghia Do Thanh/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange KuCoin to Introduce Mandatory ID Checks Next Month

As of July 15, new customers will be required to complete identification checks to use KuCoin's services.

Jun 28, 2023