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 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.

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Policy

France's Markets Regulator Backs Global Rules for DeFi

The AMF wants industry stakeholders to contribute to a discussion about its views on supervising DeFi, DAOs and associated risks.

The Financial Markets Authority in Paris, France (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Market Regulatory Uncertainty Overshadows Blockchain Development: Bank of America

The bank said it expects blockchain infrastructure and tokenization to transform financial and non-financing infrastructure and markets over the next five to 10 years.

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Policy

Hinman Documents Release in SEC-Ripple Case Is a Boost to Ether: JPMorgan

The documents are likely to intensify the move among major cryptocurrencies to become more decentralized and look more like ether, the report said.

William Hinman

Policy

U.S. Banking Watchdog Makes Case for Tokenization, Just Not on Public Blockchains

OCC chief Michael Hsu – a crypto critic – argued asset tokenization is the future, but he said centralized efforts are the way ahead.

Acting OCC Chief Michael Hsu (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Binance Under Investigation in France for 'Aggravated' Money Laundering

Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks, the Paris public prosecutor told CoinDesk.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Professional Investors Still Have an Appetite for Digital Assets: Survey

A survey by Nomura’s digital asset subsidiary shows that investors overwhelmingly say digital assets represent an important diversification opportunity.

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Finance

Binance to Quit Netherlands After Failing to Acquire License

The crypto exchange's attempt to secure a virtual asset service provider (VASP) license from the Dutch regulator was unsuccessful.

The Dutch Central Bank cited its nation’s declining use of physical cash as one of the reasons it may do well with a CBDC trial. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

Unveiling the Uniswap Foundation's Bridge Report: Winners and Losers

Wormhole and Axelar take top honors after a months-long assessment process aimed at addressing concerns with Uniswap’s previous bridge selection practices.

Puente. (Aleksandr Barsukov/Unsplash)

Finance

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s ResearchHub Startup Raises $5M in Funding

The Series A round was led by Open Source Software Capital with participation from Boost VC, RedHat's Bob Young, Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch and Replit's Amjad Masad.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

Polkadot Revamps Governance System, Removes ‘First Class Citizen’ Voting Groups

The new Polkadot OpenGov system allows multiple voting tracks to take place simultaneously without bottlenecks.

The Polkadot pavilion on the Promenade at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)