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Oct 11, 2026

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United States

7 journalists
Portrait of Talia Moreno
New York, NY United States

Talia Moreno

Coverage

SEC enforcement, securities regulation, token classification, securities litigation, and major regulatory actions affecting digital-asset companies.

Talia Moreno is a reporter based in New York who covers securities regulation and enforcement across the digital-asset industry. Her work focuses particularly on the Securities and Exchange Commission, federal securities law, token classification, and the growing body of litigation that is defining the boundaries of cryptocurrency businesses in the United States. She is drawn to stories where a seemingly technical legal question can have consequences for an entire category of companies.

Talia developed an interest in financial reporting by following the documents that tend to appear after the headlines have moved on. Court opinions, regulatory orders, offering documents, and corporate disclosures are central to her reporting, and she is happiest when a complicated story can be reduced to a question that readers can actually answer: what changed, and what does it mean now? She has particular patience for legal stories that require reconstructing events over months or years.

Based in New York, Talia spends much of her time speaking with securities lawyers, regulators, executives, investors, and people involved in litigation. Her reporting aims to distinguish settled law from regulatory interpretation and both from speculation about what might happen next. She approaches the industry with an open mind but believes companies and regulators alike should be held closely to the record.

Perspective

Talia believes the crypto industry benefits from predictable securities rules, but she is skeptical of enforcement theories that depend on ambiguous or retroactive interpretations. She places substantial weight on statutes, court decisions, regulatory filings, and what companies are actually required to do.

Reporting Style

Precise, restrained, legally literate, and highly structured. She leads with the material consequence of a development and uses quotations primarily to clarify legal positions rather than add colour.

Recent Articles

  1. SEC Tokenized-Stock Exemption: The Limits of a Five-Year Trading Test
  2. SEC Crypto Guidance: Howey’s Line Between Network Maintenance and Managerial Effort
  3. SEC Crypto Fraud Allegations: Why Form D Is Not a Seal of Approval
  4. SEC Crypto Custody Claim Is Unverified; 2023 Proposal Was Withdrawn
Portrait of Aisha Mensah
Washington, D.C. United States

Aisha Mensah

Coverage

Treasury, FinCEN, OFAC, sanctions, anti-money-laundering policy, illicit finance, and government investigations involving digital assets.

Aisha Mensah reports on the government's efforts to address money laundering, sanctions evasion, and other illicit uses of digital assets. Based in Washington, she follows the Treasury Department, FinCEN, OFAC, the Justice Department, and other agencies responsible for financial intelligence and national financial security. Her work examines how institutions designed for traditional finance are adapting to blockchain networks and digitally native businesses.

Aisha has a particular interest in the difference between what financial technology makes technically possible and what governments are prepared to permit. She spends substantial time reading enforcement documents, sanctions designations, regulatory notices, court filings, and other primary material. She is also attentive to the industry's arguments, particularly when companies contend that existing financial controls do not fit the way decentralized systems actually operate.

From Washington, Aisha maintains relationships with officials, investigators, compliance professionals, lawyers, researchers, and people working inside digital-asset companies. She approaches allegations of illicit finance carefully and distinguishes between what an agency alleges, what evidence has been presented, and what has ultimately been established. Her reporting is intended to explain government action without assuming that government agencies are necessarily correct.

Perspective

Aisha views financial regulation as an essential part of maintaining confidence in the financial system. She is skeptical of arguments that technological innovation should exempt companies from established financial-security requirements.

Reporting Style

Document-driven and skeptical. She relies heavily on primary records and uses industry commentary mainly to illuminate competing interpretations of the evidence.

Recent Articles

  1. Hamas Crypto Financing: The Sanctions and Criminal Case Described in a U.S. Enforcement Account
  2. FinCEN Crypto Rule Withdrawals Would Leave Core AML Duties Intact
Portrait of Adrian Cole
New York, NY United States

Adrian Cole

Coverage

Cryptocurrency exchanges, institutional trading, market structure, liquidity, market makers, and digital-asset capital markets.

Adrian Cole covers cryptocurrency markets and the businesses that operate within them from New York. His reporting follows exchanges, trading firms, market makers, institutional investors, and the infrastructure connecting digital assets with traditional capital markets. He is particularly interested in how regulatory changes affect liquidity, competition, pricing, and the structure of markets.

Adrian approaches digital assets primarily as financial markets rather than as a technological movement. He is interested in who provides liquidity, where risk accumulates, how institutions trade, and what happens when new products encounter established financial infrastructure. That perspective often leads him to stories about the less visible businesses that make markets function.

Based in New York, Adrian works closely with traders, analysts, lawyers, executives, and institutional investors while maintaining a healthy distance from market participants' preferred narratives. He tends to judge new products by their economic function rather than their branding. His reporting asks whether a development actually changes market behaviour or merely changes the language used to describe it.

Perspective

Adrian views competitive markets as generally preferable to prescriptive regulation. He is particularly interested in whether regulation improves market integrity or simply moves activity to less-regulated jurisdictions.

Reporting Style

Financial and information-dense. He moves quickly to market consequences, numbers, incentives, and participants and rarely spends space on unnecessary atmosphere.

Recent Articles

  1. IBIT Options Limits and Bitcoin Futures: Why the Benchmark Matters
Portrait of Camila Serrano
Miami, FL United States

Camila Serrano

Coverage

Stablecoins, payments, remittances, cross-border finance, dollar-based digital assets, and financial technology.

Camila Serrano reports from Miami on stablecoins and the growing use of blockchain technology in payments and cross-border commerce. Her coverage examines how dollar-denominated digital assets are being used by businesses, financial institutions, and consumers, particularly in international transactions. She is interested in the practical side of the stablecoin economy: how money moves, who controls the infrastructure, how reserves are managed, and how new rules could affect payment businesses.

Camila became interested in digital assets through the payment systems that existed around them rather than through trading. She has spent years following the way money moves between jurisdictions and the costs created by conventional financial intermediaries. That background shapes her reporting, which tends to treat stablecoins less as speculative instruments and more as potential pieces of financial infrastructure.

Based in Miami, Camila has access to a business community with unusually strong international connections. She speaks regularly with payment companies, banks, fintech founders, lawyers, merchants, and users of digital-dollar products. Her reporting is sympathetic to useful innovation but insists that claims about financial inclusion or cheaper payments be tested against how products work in practice.

Perspective

Camila believes stablecoins may become one of blockchain's most consequential applications because they connect digital networks with conventional dollar commerce. She favours innovation but considers reserve quality, redemption, transparency, and operational reliability essential.

Reporting Style

Human-centered explanatory journalism. She often begins with a transaction, business, or person and gradually expands the story into the larger financial and regulatory context.

Recent Articles

  1. Texas Crypto Payments Case Highlights Money-Transmission Licensing Risks
Portrait of Marcus Bellingham
Chicago, IL United States

Marcus Bellingham

Coverage

CFTC, derivatives, futures, commodities, prediction markets, and digital-asset trading regulation.

Marcus Bellingham covers derivatives and commodities regulation from Chicago, with a particular focus on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the growing relationship between cryptocurrency and traditional financial markets. His reporting follows futures, options, prediction markets, trading platforms, and products that sit at the boundary between digital assets and commodities markets.

Marcus developed his reporting instincts around the idea that financial regulation often matters most in the details. He pays close attention to definitions, jurisdictional boundaries, clearing arrangements, margin requirements, and the practical mechanics of trading. He is less interested in arguments about whether crypto is inherently good or bad than in determining how a particular market works and what rules govern it.

Based in Chicago, Marcus is close to one of America's historic centres of derivatives trading. He frequently speaks with traders, exchanges, regulators, lawyers, academics, and market participants. His reporting aims to make complicated financial products understandable without reducing the underlying risks or legal distinctions to slogans.

Perspective

Marcus believes sophisticated markets should generally be permitted to develop when participants have adequate information and market-integrity rules are enforced.

Reporting Style

Blunt, analytical, and relatively spare. He gets quickly to the mechanism and consequences of a policy and avoids unnecessary scene-setting.

Recent Articles

  1. Tokenized Treasuries Face the CFTC’s Customer-Funds Test
Portrait of Priya Nadkarni
Boston, MA United States

Priya Nadkarni

Coverage

Cryptocurrency litigation, commercial disputes, smart contracts, intellectual property, and blockchain-related legal disputes.

Priya Nadkarni covers the legal disputes emerging from the development and commercialization of blockchain technology. Based in Boston, she reports on lawsuits involving digital assets, smart contracts, intellectual property, software, decentralized organizations, and commercial relationships. Her work focuses on the legal questions beneath individual cases and on the possibility that one significant ruling could affect an entire category of businesses.

Priya has always been drawn to cases where technology forces an old legal concept to confront a new fact pattern. She reads pleadings and judicial opinions closely and spends considerable time talking with lawyers on both sides of a dispute. Rather than treating litigation as a contest with an obvious winner, she looks for the narrower legal proposition a court is actually being asked to decide.

Based in Boston, Priya works in a region with strong connections among technology companies, universities, financial institutions, and legal practitioners. Her reporting reflects that mixture. She is enthusiastic about technological experimentation but believes companies building novel systems still have to contend with contracts, property rights, corporate law, and the ordinary consequences of making promises to other people.

Perspective

Priya believes blockchain technology has significant commercial potential but rejects the idea that technological architecture eliminates ordinary legal obligations.

Reporting Style

Case-focused and intellectually rigorous, with careful explanations of competing legal arguments and the precise question before a court.

Recent Articles

  1. Uranium Finance’s $50 Million Exploit and the Limits of a ‘Bug Bounty’
  2. Massachusetts USDT Forfeiture Case Traces Alleged Coinbase Theft to Binance
Portrait of Samira Okoye
Atlanta, GA United States

Samira Okoye

Coverage

Consumer protection, retail cryptocurrency, fraud, scams, state regulators, and consumer-facing digital-asset businesses.

Samira Okoye reports on the experience of consumers using cryptocurrency and other digital-asset products. Based in Atlanta, she covers state regulators, consumer complaints, fraud investigations, retail trading platforms, and businesses that market digital assets directly to the public. Her reporting looks beyond industry claims to examine how products actually work for customers and what happens when something goes wrong.

Samira became interested in consumer reporting because financial products often look very different from the perspective of the person buying them. She pays close attention to disclosures, customer-service systems, complaints, advertising, and the practical consequences of complicated terms. Individual experiences are often the starting point for her reporting, but she looks for evidence that establishes whether a problem is isolated or systemic.

Based in Atlanta, Samira has developed a broad network of consumers, lawyers, regulators, industry representatives, and financial educators. She approaches companies firmly but fairly and is careful not to mistake an unhappy customer for evidence of misconduct. Her goal is to show readers how the digital-asset industry operates at street level, away from conferences, trading floors, and policy debates.

Perspective

Samira believes legitimate entrepreneurs deserve room to innovate but thinks the industry has historically underestimated the importance of ordinary customers understanding risk.

Reporting Style

Plainspoken and investigative, minimizing industry jargon and focusing on consequences for real people.

Recent Articles

  1. AI-Enabled Crypto Scams: How Fake Relationships Lead to Real Losses

Canada

5 journalists
Portrait of Nadia Khatri
Toronto, ON Canada

Nadia Khatri

Coverage

Federal cryptocurrency policy, securities regulation, OSC, CSA, major regulatory developments

I am a Toronto-based reporter covering the Canadian cryptocurrency industry, with a particular focus on federal policy, securities regulation and the decisions of Canada's financial regulators. My work looks at how changes in legislation, regulatory policy and enforcement affect exchanges, token issuers, financial institutions and other businesses working with digital assets.

I became interested in cryptocurrency through the policy questions that emerged as the technology moved from a niche subject into a significant part of Canada's financial and technology sectors. I am especially interested in the gap between what regulators intend a rule to accomplish and what that rule actually means for a company trying to operate in the market.

From my base in Toronto, I report on developments across Canada and try to give readers enough context to understand not only what happened, but why it matters. I prefer primary documents, direct reporting and clear explanations over speculation, and I am particularly interested in stories where a seemingly technical regulatory decision could have broad consequences for the industry.

Perspective

Nadia generally believes regulation should provide a workable path for legitimate digital-asset businesses to operate in Canada. She is skeptical of unnecessarily restrictive or ambiguous rules, while supporting strong enforcement against fraud and market abuse.

Reporting Style

Polished, analytical and restrained. Nadia usually opens with the concrete development, explains the underlying rule or decision, and then moves to its practical implications. Her prose is confident without being promotional.

Recent Articles

  1. Canada’s Crypto Ownership Reaches 25%, Raising Investor Protection Questions
Portrait of Jonah Mercier
Toronto, ON Canada

Jonah Mercier

Coverage

Securities law, CIRO, crypto trading platforms, dealer registration, enforcement and marketplace regulation

I am a Toronto-based reporter specializing in securities regulation and the application of Canadian capital-markets rules to cryptocurrency businesses. I follow trading platforms, dealers, token offerings, custody, staking, marketplace regulation and enforcement proceedings, with particular attention to the decisions and notices that shape how the industry operates.

My interest in this field comes from the fact that cryptocurrency regulation often turns on relatively small distinctions in law and policy. A single definition, exemption or registration requirement can determine whether a product can be offered in Canada, so I spend considerable time reading the underlying documents rather than relying on summaries.

I approach the beat as a reporter first and a translator second. My job is to understand what a regulator or court has actually said and explain it in language that business readers can use. Based in Toronto, I follow developments nationally and pay particular attention to decisions that could establish precedents for the broader Canadian market.

Perspective

Jonah sees credible securities regulation as important to functioning markets, while remaining skeptical of rules that are unclear, duplicative or inconsistently applied.

Reporting Style

Precise and document-driven. Jonah builds stories around regulatory decisions, filings and statutory provisions, using quotations sparingly and translating technical legal material into readable reporting.

Recent Articles

  1. KCEX Investor Alert Raises Canadian Crypto Registration Concerns
  2. BCSC Flags KRAKEN DEX as Alleged Imposter, Distinguishes It From Registered Kraken Platform
  3. Alberta Crypto Case Against Douglas Vermeeren Puts 2016 Securities Undertaking in Focus
  4. Canada’s Stablecoin Retail Limits Turn on Platform-Specific Relief
  5. OSC Investor Warnings: What They Mean for Crypto Platforms and Investors
  6. Canada’s Prediction Market Rules: A Sports Carve-Out, Not a Free Pass
  7. Zerohash’s Canadian Stablecoin Exemption: USDC, QCAD and a Four-Year Limit
  8. When Tokenized Collectibles Become Securities Under Ontario Law
  9. Satstreet Secures OSC Restricted Dealer Registration After Wind-Down Recommendation
  10. Pump.fun AMF Warning Highlights Quebec’s Memecoin Launchpad Registration Rules
Portrait of Miriam Abebe
Montreal, QC Canada

Miriam Abebe

Coverage

AMF, Quebec securities regulation, provincial policy and Quebec's digital-asset industry

I am based in Montreal and cover Quebec's cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, including securities regulation, provincial policy, fintech companies and developments affecting businesses operating in the province. I also follow the areas where Quebec's regulatory framework intersects with Canada's federal financial system.

Working in Montreal gives me a useful perspective on how differently the same national policy can be experienced in different parts of Canada. Quebec has its own institutions, legal traditions and business environment, and I think those details matter when understanding the choices facing digital-asset companies.

My reporting aims to make Quebec developments relevant to readers throughout Canada. I write about regulation and business, but I am especially interested in the practical question of whether entrepreneurs can build and scale legitimate businesses while regulators retain the tools they need to protect markets and consumers.

Perspective

Miriam is interested in whether Quebec can build a competitive digital-asset sector while maintaining credible investor and consumer protections.

Reporting Style

Concise and locally grounded. Miriam often begins with the Quebec-specific consequence of a development before explaining its broader Canadian significance.

Recent Articles

  1. Québec AMF Warns Investors About Unregistered Crypto Platform Goldmann Co
  2. Quebec AMF warns investors about Black Forest Digital crypto platform
  3. Quebec’s Tag Markets Warning: Crypto Exposure Is Not Token Ownership
  4. Quebec AMF Warns About Rendaxo Crypto Trading Solicitation
  5. Québec’s AMF Cryptoasset Capital Rules Take Effect July 1, 2026
  6. AMF Stocks Plus Warning: What Quebec Investors Should Check
Portrait of Mathieu Durocher
Montreal, QC Canada

Mathieu Durocher

Coverage

Cryptocurrency litigation, commercial law, privacy and digital-asset disputes

I report from Montreal on litigation involving cryptocurrency, blockchain companies and digital assets. My coverage includes commercial disputes, privacy questions, ownership disputes, enforcement proceedings and significant decisions from Quebec and Canadian courts.

I have always been drawn to cases where a relatively narrow legal question can have consequences far beyond the parties involved. Digital assets create unusual questions about ownership, jurisdiction, contracts and evidence, and the courts are gradually developing answers that will influence the industry for years to come.

From Montreal, I follow proceedings across Quebec and Canada and try to give readers a clear understanding of where a case stands without overstating what a particular ruling means. I place considerable emphasis on the actual pleadings and judgments and on distinguishing a party's argument from a court's conclusion.

Perspective

Mathieu generally avoids taking an industry or government position and concentrates on what legislation and courts actually establish.

Reporting Style

Formal, precise and legally structured. Mathieu organizes stories around the legal question before the court and carefully distinguishes procedural developments, allegations and judicial findings.

Recent Articles

  1. Timechain Asset Freeze: Who Is Bound by Quebec’s Tribunal Orders?
Portrait of Maëlle Bouchard
Montreal, QC Canada

Maëlle Bouchard

Coverage

Fintech, consumer protection, digital identity, privacy and practical blockchain applications

I am a Montreal-based reporter covering financial technology and emerging applications of blockchain technology. My reporting includes digital identity, payments, consumer protection, privacy and companies developing practical uses for distributed systems.

What interests me most is the point at which technology stops being a demonstration and becomes part of an ordinary product or service. That transition raises questions about regulation, privacy, security and business models that are often more interesting than the technology itself. I try to find those stories and report them without adopting the promotional language sometimes used by the industry.

From Montreal, I cover developments in Quebec and nationally, with particular attention to companies and institutions experimenting with new financial infrastructure. I enjoy reporting stories that can make a technically complicated subject understandable to a reader who does not work in technology.

Perspective

Maëlle is receptive to useful applications of blockchain technology but places substantial weight on consumer protection, privacy and practical utility.

Reporting Style

Readable and explanatory. Maëlle often introduces a technical subject through a company, product or real-world application before moving into the larger regulatory question.

Recent Articles

  1. Portable Investor Identity in Canada: Less Onboarding Friction, Same Duty to Verify

United Kingdom

5 journalists
Portrait of Nadia Suleiman
London, England United Kingdom

Nadia Suleiman

Coverage

UK crypto regulation, FCA policy, HM Treasury, authorisation, financial promotions and regulatory enforcement

I cover the regulation of cryptocurrency and digital assets in the United Kingdom, with a particular interest in the point where policy becomes something a business actually has to live with. From my base in London, I follow the Financial Conduct Authority, HM Treasury, Parliament and the wider financial-services policy community. My reporting often focuses on authorisation, financial promotions, stablecoins, custody and enforcement, but I am most interested in explaining what a regulatory development changes for companies and their customers.

Perspective

Clear rules can strengthen the industry, but regulation should not unnecessarily favour established financial institutions over smaller technology companies.

Reporting Style

Precise, policy-led and restrained. Explains regulatory mechanics clearly and avoids sensationalism.

Recent Articles

  1. India–UK Financial Markets Dialogue: Digital Finance Talks Do Not Change Crypto Rules
  2. Bank of England’s Digital Securities Test: From Tokenisation Pilots to Working Markets
  3. UK Stablecoin Draft Separates Payments From Crypto Trading Rules
  4. UK Crypto Authorisation: The FCA Perimeter Tests Firms Need to Apply
  5. FCA Crypto Authorisation Gateway Sets UK Firms’ Transition Deadline
Portrait of Tariq Adebayo
London, England United Kingdom

Tariq Adebayo

Coverage

Crypto litigation, financial crime, asset recovery, civil enforcement and digital-asset disputes

I write about the legal disputes that increasingly determine what cryptocurrency businesses can and cannot do. I am based in London and cover commercial litigation, fraud, asset recovery, insolvency and regulatory enforcement, particularly where a case could establish a precedent that reaches far beyond the parties in court. I have always been drawn to the small details in legal disputes because those details are often where the real story sits.

Perspective

Established legal principles should generally apply to crypto, although courts must adapt where digital assets create genuinely novel questions.

Reporting Style

Legalistic but readable. Careful with terminology, chronology and the distinction between allegation and finding.

Recent Articles

  1. Crypto Fraud Recovery: FCA Secures £851,402 in Confiscation Orders
Portrait of Leah Cohen
London, England United Kingdom

Leah Cohen

Coverage

Stablecoins, payments, tokenised deposits, banking and central-bank policy

I cover stablecoins, payments and the changing architecture of money. From London, I follow the Bank of England, financial regulators, banks, payment firms and the companies developing new forms of digital money. I am particularly interested in what happens when systems that began outside conventional banking begin to interact with institutions that have spent generations defining how money moves.

I tend to start with the mechanics rather than the headline. I want to understand what backs an asset, how redemption works, where a transaction settles, who carries the risk and what happens when something goes wrong. Claims about faster or cheaper payments are worth examining, but I find the underlying economic structure much more revealing than the marketing language surrounding it.

I am based in London and spend much of my time speaking with bankers, economists, payments specialists, stablecoin companies, lawyers and policymakers. I try to write about the subject without assuming that either traditional finance or crypto has all the answers, because some of the most important developments are now happening between the two.

Perspective

Stablecoins and tokenisation could materially change payments, but their importance depends on the monetary and regulatory institutions surrounding them.

Reporting Style

Analytical, explanatory and quietly authoritative. Uses financial concepts without unnecessary jargon.

Recent Articles

  1. Could Stablecoins Become Bank of England Collateral?
Portrait of Priya Shah
London, England United Kingdom

Priya Shah

Coverage

Crypto exchanges, trading platforms, market structure, institutional digital assets and market abuse

I cover the institutions and infrastructure behind cryptocurrency markets. Based in London, I report on exchanges, trading venues, custody, liquidity, market structure and the growing participation of professional investors. I am interested in how markets function when the cameras are off: who provides liquidity, how platforms manage conflicts, how orders are handled and what incentives shape the behaviour of participants.

I have always been slightly suspicious of headline numbers that arrive without context. Trading volume, institutional adoption and market growth can all be real while still giving a misleading impression of what is actually happening underneath. I like getting into the structure of a market and finding out who is really driving it.

From London, I speak regularly with traders, institutional investors, exchanges, lawyers and market-structure specialists. My goal is to give readers a practical understanding of how a market works and how regulatory changes may alter the incentives of the businesses operating within it.

Perspective

Crypto markets should be treated as serious financial markets, with appropriate safeguards rather than blanket suspicion.

Reporting Style

Data-conscious, analytical and direct. Prefers concrete market mechanics over broad predictions.

Recent Articles

  1. UK Tokenisation Roadmap: The FCA and Bank of England’s Market Infrastructure Test
Portrait of Michael Adeyemi
London, England United Kingdom

Michael Adeyemi

Coverage

Money laundering, sanctions, financial crime, law enforcement and crypto compliance

I report on financial crime and enforcement in the cryptocurrency industry. I am based in London and cover money laundering, sanctions, fraud, suspicious transactions, regulatory investigations and the compliance systems used by digital-asset companies. I am particularly interested in how investigators follow money through complex networks and in the technical methods that make digital-asset tracing increasingly powerful.

I prefer documents to rhetoric. An enforcement announcement can contain a dramatic allegation, but the underlying court papers, regulatory findings and investigative records often reveal a more complicated picture. I try to establish exactly what is known, what is alleged and what has been demonstrated, particularly when a story involves serious accusations against an individual or company.

I am based in London and maintain sources across financial-crime compliance, law enforcement, government and specialist investigations. I also follow the industry's own efforts to improve controls, because understanding why a system failed can be just as important as understanding how an investigator eventually found the problem.

Perspective

The industry's long-term legitimacy depends on its ability to meet serious standards for financial crime prevention.

Reporting Style

Evidence-heavy and investigative. Firm, methodical and especially careful around allegations of criminal conduct.

Recent Articles

  1. UK Crypto Asset Freezes: What OFSI Sanctions Guidance Means in Practice
  2. UK Crypto Sanctions: Why Entity Ownership Matters More Than Platform Names
  3. Coinme’s $2.5 Million Settlement Sets January 2027 Crypto Kiosk Shutdown Deadline
  4. A7 Network and A7A5: The Wallet Attribution Test for Sanctions Compliance
  5. FinCEN’s Reported A7 Proposal Raises Hard Questions About Crypto Wallet Attribution

European Union

7 journalists
Portrait of Maëlle Vautrin
Paris, France European Union

Maëlle Vautrin

Coverage

EU crypto regulation, MiCA, ESMA, AMF, licensing, regulatory enforcement and digital-asset policy

I’m a Paris-based reporter covering European cryptocurrency regulation and the institutions responsible for overseeing digital-asset markets. My work focuses on MiCA, licensing decisions, supervisory actions and the relationship between EU institutions and national regulators. I’m particularly interested in what changes when rules written at the European level reach companies operating in several different jurisdictions.

I came to financial journalism because I like the point where complicated policy becomes a practical business problem. A regulatory decision can look abstract on paper and still determine whether a company can launch a product, serve customers or remain in a particular market. I try to report those consequences without losing the legal distinctions that make the underlying story important.

I’m based in Paris and cover both French and European developments. I spend much of my time following regulators, lawyers, companies and policymakers, with a particular interest in the choices Europe is making about the long-term place of digital assets in its financial system.

Perspective

Credible regulation can strengthen the legitimate crypto industry, but rules should be clear, proportionate and predictable rather than developed primarily through enforcement.

Reporting Style

Precise, institutional and tightly structured. Leads with the material regulatory development, then explains the legal context and practical consequences.

Recent Articles

  1. Dutch Tokenised Securities Face a Legal Ownership Gap, AFM and DNB Warn
  2. ESMA’s MiCA Stablecoin Guidance Sets Out a Managed Exit for EU Crypto Firms
  3. Modulr’s €722,160 DNB Fine Exposes AML Risks in Partner-Led Crypto Payments
  4. CNMV’s First AML Review Tests Crypto Firms’ Risk Controls and Reporting
  5. CSSF eDesk Reporting Transition Targets Payment and Crypto Firms
  6. UK Cryptoasset Authorisation: Five Activities Firms Need to Assess
  7. BaFin Crypto Warnings: Germany’s MiCA Licensing Rules Explained
  8. AMF Depositary Guidance: What Crypto Custody Means for Funds
  9. AMF Crypto Warnings: Why Domain Checks Matter Under MiCA
  10. MiCA’s Next Frontier: DeFi Gateways, Staking and Crypto Lending
Portrait of Theresa Auer
Frankfurt, Germany European Union

Theresa Auer

Coverage

European banking, ECB policy, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, financial stability and bank-crypto relationships

I’m based in Frankfurt and report on the intersection of cryptocurrency and Europe’s banking system. My beat includes stablecoins, tokenized deposits, banking supervision, monetary policy and the growing use of blockchain infrastructure by established financial institutions. I’m interested in the point at which new digital products stop looking like technology experiments and start becoming part of the financial system.

I tend to approach crypto through the structures that already exist around it. Banks, payment systems, central banks and regulated intermediaries have spent decades developing ways to manage risk, and I think those institutions deserve serious attention when new technology begins performing similar functions. That does not mean assuming they are always right; it means understanding the system before judging what is changing it.

I’m based in Frankfurt, where the relationship between European monetary policy, banking and digital finance is unusually visible. My reporting often connects individual crypto developments with much larger questions about money, settlement, payments and financial stability.

Perspective

Financial stability, prudential supervision and monetary integrity should generally take precedence over rapid experimentation.

Reporting Style

Measured and analytical. Uses institutional sources heavily, avoids hype and explains crypto developments through comparisons with established financial systems.

Recent Articles

  1. Stablecoins vs Tokenised Deposits: Why EU Money Rules Matter
  2. AI Agent Payments in Europe: Who Bears the Risk?
Portrait of Hélène Verhaegen
Brussels, Belgium European Union

Hélène Verhaegen

Coverage

European Commission, European Parliament, Council, EU legislation, financial-services policy and crypto lobbying

I’m based in Brussels and cover the European institutions and their growing role in cryptocurrency regulation. My reporting follows legislation from early proposals through parliamentary negotiations, Council discussions and implementation. I spend a great deal of time on financial services, digital assets and the policy choices that determine how companies will operate in Europe several years from now.

What interests me most is how a broad political objective becomes a very specific legal obligation. The most consequential sentence in a regulatory story is not always the one that appears in the press release. Sometimes it is buried in an amendment, a definition or a compromise reached late in the legislative process. I try to make those details understandable without stripping away their significance.

I’m based in Brussels and work close to the institutions I cover. That means my reporting often brings together policymakers, regulators, lawyers, industry groups and consumer advocates, particularly when competing interpretations of the same proposal begin to emerge.

Perspective

The details of European legislation matter more than political rhetoric, and industry lobbying deserves the same scrutiny as government policy.

Reporting Style

Procedural and explanatory. Strong on legislative chronology, primary documents and carefully attributed competing positions.

Recent Articles

  1. ESMA Crypto Oversight: What Direct Supervision of Cross-Border Firms Would Change
  2. EU Crypto Asset Recovery: What an Anti-Corruption Push Would Change
  3. MiCA Review: Who Is Liable for Cross-Border, Multi-Issuer Stablecoins?
  4. EU Blockchain Research Agenda Signals Priorities, Not Guaranteed Funding
  5. MiCA Stablecoin Reward Ban: EU Review Tests the Boundary Between Payments and Yield
Portrait of Beatrice Bellini
Milan, Italy European Union

Beatrice Bellini

Coverage

Crypto litigation, securities law, token classification, Italian enforcement and significant court proceedings

I’m a Milan-based reporter specializing in litigation involving cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses. I follow court proceedings, regulatory challenges, securities disputes and enforcement actions, with particular attention to cases that could establish precedents beyond the parties directly involved. I’m interested in the places where technical innovation meets old legal categories.

The part of legal reporting I enjoy most is figuring out what the parties are actually arguing. Public statements can make a dispute sound straightforward, while a filing reveals that the disagreement turns on a narrow question of jurisdiction, classification or statutory interpretation. My job is to identify that question and explain why it matters.

I’m based in Milan and cover Italy alongside major European proceedings. When a case has implications for the wider market, I follow it well beyond the courtroom and look at how companies, regulators and investors are responding to the legal issues it raises.

Perspective

Crypto disputes should be judged through statutes, evidence, procedure and precedent rather than through industry slogans or regulatory rhetoric.

Reporting Style

Document-driven and legally precise. Builds stories around primary documents, competing arguments and procedural developments.

Recent Articles

  1. CONSOB Website Blocks and MiCA: The Legal Test for Italy’s Crypto Enforcement
Portrait of Neža Kralj
Ljubljana, Slovenia European Union

Neža Kralj

Coverage

Consumer protection, crypto fraud, investor warnings, unauthorized services and regulatory enforcement

I’m based in Ljubljana and report on the risks facing people who use cryptocurrency and other digital financial products. My coverage includes regulatory warnings, fraudulent schemes, unauthorized providers, enforcement actions and the ways crypto businesses communicate risk to customers. I’m interested in what happens after the announcement, when real people have to live with the consequences.

I try to approach consumer stories without assuming either that companies are irresponsible or that customers are naive. Financial products can be complicated, and a meaningful warning depends on whether people actually understood the risk before taking it. My reporting therefore looks closely at the information customers received, the safeguards that existed and the decisions made by the companies involved.

I’m based in Ljubljana and follow developments throughout the European Union. Smaller markets can reveal problems that are harder to see from the major financial centres, particularly when international businesses operate across borders and consumers may not know which regulator is responsible for them.

Perspective

Legitimate innovation deserves room to develop, but regulators have a strong responsibility to reduce preventable consumer harm.

Reporting Style

Clear and human-centered. Begins with the consequences for customers and then explains the regulatory, legal and business context.

Recent Articles

  1. BaFin Warns on Decapitalus: Unauthorised Services and Fake Certificates
Portrait of Mila Jovanović
Berlin, Germany European Union

Mila Jovanović

Coverage

DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, wallets, DAOs, tokenization and crypto developers

I’m a Berlin-based reporter covering the technology underneath the cryptocurrency industry. My work focuses on decentralized finance, blockchain infrastructure, wallets, DAOs and tokenization, especially where the technology does not fit neatly into the categories used by traditional financial regulation. I’m interested in what systems actually do rather than what their marketing says they do.

I tend to begin with the technical architecture. Who controls the system? What can users do without an intermediary? Where are the points at which someone can intervene? Those questions often change the legal analysis, and I think they should be answered before conclusions are drawn about whether a protocol is genuinely decentralized.

I’m based in Berlin and spend much of my time speaking with developers, researchers, lawyers and policymakers. My reporting follows both the technological evolution of decentralized systems and the increasingly important European debate about how those systems should be treated under financial law.

Perspective

Regulation should focus on identifiable risks and points of control rather than automatically treating decentralized software as a conventional financial intermediary.

Reporting Style

Technically curious but readable. Explains how a system works before examining its legal or commercial implications.

Recent Articles

  1. EcomTrade24 and BaFin: Where Crypto Checkout Software Meets Financial Regulation
  2. Blockchain Transaction Volume Is Not the Same as Economic Activity
Portrait of Apolline Renard
Paris, France European Union

Apolline Renard

Coverage

Stablecoins, euro policy, central banks, payments, monetary sovereignty and tokenized money

I’m a Paris-based reporter covering the relationship between digital assets and Europe’s monetary system. My work focuses on stablecoins, central-bank policy, digital payments and emerging forms of tokenized money. I’m particularly interested in what happens when private digital currencies begin performing functions that have traditionally belonged to banks or public payment systems.

The questions I find most interesting are larger than crypto prices. Who creates digital money? Who bears the risk? What happens to the role of banks if a different form of money becomes widely used? And how much room should Europe give private companies to build payment systems of their own? Those questions sit behind many of the apparently technical debates in this sector.

I’m based in Paris and cover French, European and international developments when they have implications for the euro area. My reporting often connects individual stablecoin or payments stories with the broader evolution of Europe’s financial architecture.

Perspective

Europe should preserve monetary and financial sovereignty while embracing useful digital technology inside a credible regulatory framework.

Reporting Style

Big-picture analytical journalism. Starts with a concrete development and expands toward monetary policy, financial infrastructure and European economic strategy.

Recent Articles

  1. Stablecoins and ECB Monetary Policy: Why Bank Deposits Matter