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

Binance Is Strongly Leaning Toward Scrapping FTX Rescue Takeover After First Glance at Books: Source

Backing out would be one more stunning development in the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire.

Sam Bankman-Fried vs. CZ (CoinDesk)

Finance

Divisions in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Blur on His Trading Titan Alameda’s Balance Sheet

Alameda had $14.6 billion of assets as of June 30, according to a private document CoinDesk reviewed. Much of it is the FTT token issued by FTX, another Bankman-Fried company.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Singapore’s DBS Explains How Big Banks Can Implement DeFi, Too

Project Guardian involved Ethereum scaling system Polygon, DeFi lending platform Aave and decentralized exchange Uniswap.

Han Kwee Juan, group head of strategy and planning, DBS (DBS Bank)

Finance

Crypto Finance Firm Galaxy Digital to Cut One-Fifth of Workforce: Sources

The company's shares have fallen 80% in the past year.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase-Backed Anti-Money Laundering Group Expands Into Europe

The Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST) has grown its membership to 67 firms.

The FATF ordered crypto service providers to meet its AML guidance back in 2019. (Hervé Cortinat/OECD)

Finance

Standard Chartered-Backed Zodia Custody Offers Crypto Ownership Proofs for Institutions

Should a custodian declare bankruptcy, Zodia’s tech can be used to prove ownership to reallocate wallets and return them to the rightful owner, the company said.

(CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Struggling Bitcoin Miners Are Flocking to Maple Finance’s $300M Lending Pool

A pipeline of 10 mining firms will make up the first cohort of borrowers, with some 25 on the waitlist.

Sid Powell, CEO of Maple Finance (Maple Finance)

Finance

Genesis Chief Risk Officer Said to Be Exiting After 3 Months

Michael Patchen joined the crypto brokerage this past summer.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Data Science Shop Gauntlet Launches Treasury Management System for DAOs

Aera aims to make DAOs the agile, risk-aware institutions DeFi is lacking.

Gauntlet founder and CEO Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet)

Finance

Ripple Builds New Partnerships in France and Sweden Despite Crypto Bear Market

Ripple inked deals with Paris-based payment provider for online marketplaces Lemonway and Swedish money transfer provider Xbaht.

Ripple Labs maintains XRP. (Ripple Labs)