Sandali Handagama

Sandali Handagama is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor for policy and regulations, EMEA. She is an alumna of Columbia University's graduate school of journalism and has contributed to a variety of publications including The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Nation and Popular Science. Sandali doesn't own any crypto and she tweets as @iamsandali

Sandali Handagama

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Policy

Israeli Exchange Bits of Gold Becomes First Crypto Firm to Receive Capital Markets License

The firm will now be able to work with local bank and financial institutions.

(Carl & Ann Purcell/Getty Images)

Policy

La Unión Europea finaliza el reglamento de la normativa cripto bajo la ley MiCA

Un borrador del texto que se filtró muestra que las normas podrían aplicarse a stablecoins algorítmicas y NFTs fraccionados, según revisiones hechas por CoinDesk.

 EU flag (Unsplash)

Policy

EU Finalizes Legal Text for Landmark Crypto Regulations Under MiCA

A leaked draft of the text, reviewed by CoinDesk, shows the rules could apply to algorithmic stablecoins and fractionalized NFTs.

The EU flag (Håkan Dahlström/Getty Images)

Policy

Iran to Start Testing a Digital Rial This Week

The country's central bank published a draft document outlining goals and opportunities for a digital currency in August.

Iran's central bank is ready to test a digital rial (Peter Polic/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Finance

El exchange FTX no está autorizado para operar en Reino Unido, advierte el organismo de control financiero

Sin embargo, FTX le comentó a Bloomberg que piensa que un estafador se está haciendo pasar por la empresa.

Página de inicio del sitio web de la Autoridad de Conducta Financiera para la organización de regulación financiera del Reino Unido. (Shutterstock)

Policy

France Orders Jail Time for 2 Men Charged With Funding Terrorism in Syria With Crypto: Report

The amount transferred via crypto by three Islamic extremists is estimated at around $280,000, one news outlet in France reported.

French authorities sentenced two men to jail for using crypto to fund terrorism in Syria (Shutterstock)

Policy

Eth.link Restored After Ethereum Name Service Wins Injunction Against GoDaddy

The company behind the Web3 domain service and Virgil Griffith sued GoDaddy earlier this month, alleging the domain registration platform falsely announced eth.link had expired, and then sold it to a third party.

Ethereum Name Service's eth.link is back online after it was sold to a third party by GoDaddy earlier this year (ENS Domains)

Policy

Crypto Exchange FTX Not Authorized in UK, Financial Watchdog Warns

However, FTX told Bloomberg it believes a scammer is impersonating the company.

Página de inicio del sitio web de la Autoridad de Conducta Financiera para la organización de regulación financiera del Reino Unido. (Shutterstock)

Policy

ECB Picks Amazon, Nexi, 3 More to Prototype Digital Euro Apps

The European Central Bank plans to test how well the technology underlying a digital euro integrates with user interfaces developed by companies.

En un principio, el euro digital se utilizará solo para pagos personales. (Koron/Getty Images)

Policy

SEC's Crypto Guidance Pushes US Banks to Rethink Custody Projects: Report

The regulator suggests that customers' crypto assets should be treated as liabilities by lenders, which could be "prohibitively costly" for banks.

Comisión de Bolsa y Valores de Estados Unidos. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)