Ian Allison

Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.

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Finance

Stablecoins Will Expand Beyond Crypto Trading, Become Part of Mainstream Economy, Citi Predicts

The next five years will likely see stablecoins substitute for some overseas and domestic U.S. currency holdings, according to a Citi Future Finance report.

Citigroup tower in London

Finance

Citi, Switzerland’s SDX Join Forces to Tokenize $75B Pre-IPO Shares Market

Citi will act as a custodian and issuer agent for tokenized assets on SDX’s digital Central Securities Depository (CSD) platform.

Close up of Citigroup logo on the side of a building.

Finance

Visa and Baanx Launch USDC Stablecoin Payment Cards

The Visa cards enable holders to spend USDC directly from their crypto wallets, using smart contracts to move a stablecoin balance.

Casa central de Visa en Foster City, California. (Wonderlane/Creative Commons)

Finance

Telegram’s TON Takes On Real World Assets With Libre’s $500M Tokenized Bond Fund

Libre’s Telegram Bond Fund ($TBF) will offer accredited investors institutional-grade yield products that will also be available as collateral for on-chain borrowing and product development on TON,

Libre CEO Avtar Sehra sits on a chair in front of a microphone (Libre)

Finance

Kraken’s Former Legal Chief Marco Santori Joins Pantera Capital

“The timing couldn’t be better, and Pantera couldn’t be better positioned to capitalize on it,” Santori said about his new role.

Marco Santori (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Binance to Offer Crypto Asset Managers ‘Fund Accounts’ That Mirror TradFi Trading

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is offering digital asset managers special omnibus accounts that allow pooling of their investors’ assets.

Photo of Binance's head of institutional and VIP, Catherine Chen

Finance

Travel Rule Compliance Surges on New Regs, Stablecoin Payments, Notabene Says

Notabene’s annual survey of crypto firms found that almost all respondents expect to be Travel Rule compliant by mid-2025.

Notabene CEO Pelle Braendgaard (Notabene)

Finance

Dutch Bank ING Said to Be Working on a New Stablecoin With Other TradFi and Crypto Firms

ING’s stablecoin project could take the form of a consortium effort including some other banks and crypto service providers, two people familiar with the plans said.

(Sundry Photography/Shutterstock)

Finance

Stablecoin Giant Circle Is Launching a New Payments and Remittance Network

Circle is unveiling a new payments and cross border remittance product on Tuesday, from the firm’s One World Trade Center headquarters, according to an invite to the launch event.

CEO Jeremy Allaire's Circle is part of the consortium behind USDC. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Kraken Sheds ‘Hundreds’ of Jobs to Streamline Business Ahead of IPO, Sources Say

A Kraken spokesperson said the firm is “making the difficult decision to eliminate certain roles and consolidate teams where redundancies exist, while continuing to hire in key areas of the business.”

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