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

What ING Bank Might Steal From DeFi

ING blockchain lead Mariana Gomez de la Villa said Ethereum’s composability could inform the next generation of banking services.

ING Headquarters

Markets

Mastercard Exec Shares Thoughts on Crypto Rewards, Stablecoin and CBDC Plans

Jessica Turner, the storied payment network’s fintech executive, reflects on mainstream crypto adoption at Consensus 2021.

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Markets

China’s BSN Builder Urges Developers to Look Beyond Cryptocurrency

Red Date Technologies CEO Yifan He was showing off the BSN stack in public for the first time.

Great Wall of China

Tech

Polkadot Weighs Multichain Tech Challenges Ahead of DOT 'Parachain' Auctions

Polkadot’s interconnected web of blockchains will require “a totally different application programming paradigm,” said Web3 Foundation tech lead Joe Petrowski.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Finance

Solidus Labs Raises $20M From VCs, Ex-Regulators to Fight Crypto Market Manipulation

Solidus won angel support from former U.S. regulators Chris Giancarlo, Troy Paredes and Daniel Gorfine.

Solidus Labs CTO Praveen Kumar (left), COO Chen Arad (top) and CEO Asaf Meir (right).

Finance

Institutional Crypto Exchange LMAX Digital Hit Record $6.6B Volume on Bitcoin’s ‘Black Wednesday’

LMAX Digital says many institutional clients saw last week's crypto crash as "an opportunity to buy."

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Finance

Crypto Hedge Funds Show Growing Appetite for DeFi: PwC

Crypto hedge funds had $3.8 billion in assets under management in 2020. Chainlink, Polkadot and Aave tokens proved to be popular.

PwC's London offices

Finance

Uphold Exec Accused of ‘Fraudulently Misdirecting’ $700K in Funds

Uphold's former chief compliance officer allegedly misdirected corporate and user funds. He denies the claim, though a private investigator says there may be more.

The offices of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in London. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Coinbase in Talks to Buy Asset Manager Osprey Funds: Sources

The talks are at a high level and informal at this stage, said one of the sources.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at Consensus 2019.

Finance

Crypto Custodian Copper Raises $50M in Series B Round

The digital asset custodian says revenue and client growth tripled in the last quarter.

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