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

Santander Private Bank Introduces Bitcoin, Ethereum Trading for Clients in Switzerland

Santander Private Banking International is offering buy, sell and hold services with bitcoin and ether to clients with accounts in Switzerland.

a row of parked, Santander-sponsored bicycles, aka Boris bikes.

Finance

Crypto Giant OKX Goes Live With Off-Exchange Derivatives Trading

Asset manager CoinShares, along with crypto custody joint venture Komainu, are aiming for TradFi standards in derivatives settlement with much-reduced counterparty risk.

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Finance

Tokenized Cash Fintech Fnality Raises $95M Led by Goldman and BNP Paribas

DTCC, Euroclear, Nomura and WisdomTree also participated in the Series B funding round.

Art installation reminiscent of digital ecosystems

Finance

Meet Midas: A New Yield-Bearing Stablecoin Investing in U.S. Treasuries

The proposed stablecoin, which tokenizes ownership of Treasuries, mentions BlackRock, Circle, Fireblocks and Coinfirm as "institutional partners."

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Finance

HSBC to Offer Tokenized Securities Custody Service for Institutions

The platform, planned for 2024, complements its new offering for tokenized gold as well as one for issuing digital assets.

(Steve Heap/Shutterstock)

Finance

Ripple Broadens Remittances Between Africa, Gulf States, UK and Australia

At its annual conference, Ripple also announced product enhancements and license updates, including a focus on payments between enterprises and smaller businesses.

Ripple (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Broker sFOX Offers Commission-Free Blockchain Staking from Regulated Custody

“We are providing a gateway to staking without stepping in the middle or taking any revenue or profit,” founder Akbar Thobhani said.

a rank of safe deposit boxes

Finance

FTX Relaunch Effort Includes Celsius Winner Proof Group, Sources Say

Plans to bring Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange back to life include the Silicon Valley investment firm Proof Group, which was part of the Fahrenheit consortium that successfully bid for bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius.

FTX former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. (MIT Bitcoin Club, Mercatus Center, Cointelegraph/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

BitGo and Copper Combine Crypto Custody Settlement Networks

The network effect of BitGo’s cold storage settlement system and Copper’s ClearLoop comprises exchanges like Bybit, OKX, Powertrade, Bitget, Gate.io, Deribit, BIT, Bitfinex and Bitstamp.

CEO of BitGo Mike Belshe in a chair on-stage at Consensus 2023

Finance

St.Galler Kantonalbank Works With SEBA Bank to Offer Swiss Customers Bitcoin, Ethereum

The first tier of customers will be wealth-management clients; retail customers are next in line, and other coins and staking services are planned, said SEBA Bank's Christian Bieri.

SEBA Bank lobby