Tanzeel Akhtar

Tanzeel Akhtar

Tanzeel Akhtar has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes Africa, Financial Times, The Street, Citywire, Investing.com, Euromoney, Yahoo! Finance, Benzinga, Kitco News, African Business Magazine, Hedge Week, Campden Family Office, Modern Investor, Spear's Wealth Management Magazine, Global Investor, ETF.com, ETF Stream, CIO UK, Funds Global Asia, Portfolio Institutional, Interactive Investor, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoNews.com, Bitcoin.com, The Local, The Next Web, Mining Journal, Money Marketing, Marketing Week and more. Tanzeel trained as a foreign correspondent at the University of Helsinki, Finland and newspaper journalist at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature from the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and completed a semester abroad as an ERASMUS student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is NCTJ Qualified - Media Law, Public Administration and passed the Shorthand 100WPM with distinction. She does not currently hold value in any digital currencies or projects.

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The number of crypto criminals using so-called privacy wallets to help hide their identities is on the rise, according to analytics firm Elliptic.
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Standard Chartered, Northern Trust to Launch Crypto Custody Service in the UK
Zodia Custody is currently pending approval by the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority and is expected to launch in 2021.
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Coinbase UK Discloses 22% Profit Drop in 2019
The British arm of the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange saw a sharp downturn in business in 2019.
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Ohio Bill Enabling Blockchain Use by Government Moves to State Senate
House Bill 220 would enable Ohio's governmental bodies to use blockchain and DLT in their operations if signed into law.
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NEM's Enterprise Blockchain 'Symbol' Enters Final Stage Before Launch
The code for Symbol has now been "frozen" in its current iteration, marking the last step in preparing for its mainnet launch.
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Square will dedicate $10 million to the development of clean bitcoin mining technologies.
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Desigual store, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Fashion Brand Desigual Turns to Blockchain Tech for Supply Chain Visibility
The Barcelona-based fashion brand plans to start tracing its supply chains on a blockchain platform from Finboot.
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SBI Teams Up With Swiss SIX Exchange to Offer Institutional Crypto Services in Singapore
An SBI Holdings subsidiary and SIX Digital Exchange will offer digital asset services for institutional investors in Singapore.
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