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

XRP Gets Wrapped by Tokensoft for Ethereum DeFi Debut

Tokensoft’s Wrapped is now taking a multi-custodial approach, having partnered with Hex Trust on wXRP.

Wrapped assets can live away from their native blockchains. (Kari Shea/Unsplash)

Policy

FATF Crypto Guidance Looks to Bring Industry in Line With Banks

The message from the regulator is countries have to implement these standards now.

(Hervé Cortinat/OECD, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Ledger Expands Institutional Footprint in Switzerland and UK

The rebranded Ledger Enterprise Solutions is opening offices in Zurich, Geneva and London.

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier (Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Bank Anchorage to Command $2B+ Valuation in New Funding Round, Sources Say

The custody firm raised an $80 million Series C in February but did not disclose its valuation at the time.

Anchorage CEO: Regulation Is 'Fundamentally Bullish' for Crypto Space

Finance

UK Regtech Firm ComplyAdvantage Adds Elliptic to Its Crypto Compliance Suite

ComplyAdvantage is already working with crypto firms like Paxos and Gemini, but mainly on the fiat AML side of things.

London's financial district (Ergin Yıldızoglu/Unsplash)

Finance

Walmart Has Quietly Begun Hosting Bitcoin ATMs

The retail giant is offering bitcoin through 200 of its Coinstar kiosks in a tie-up with crypto ATM firm Coinme. We made sure it’s real.

One of the bitcoin-enabled Coinstar kiosks at a Walmart in Warminster, Pa. (Kevin Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Policy

FATF Will Finally Publish Crypto Anti-Money Laundering Guidance Next Week

President Marcus Pleyer said the watchdog now expects countries to implement its “Travel Rule” guidance as soon as possible.

FATF meeting.

Finance

Associated Press Taps Chainlink for Elections, Sports Data

As well as providing race call data on the 2021 U.S. state elections, AP will begin adding macroeconomic and sports feeds to the blockchain.

The Associated Press will call some 7,000 races in the 2020 elections. Everipedia will record these calls on its network.

Finance

Société Générale Shopping for Crypto Custodian: Sources

The French bank is said to be looking closely at a pair of Swiss firms.

(Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Finance

Stablecoins Like Tether Could Pose New Risks to Securities Markets, Fitch Warns

“Stablecoin-related turbulence could both affect the CP [commercial paper] market itself and transmit shocks to other market participants,” the ratings agency wrote.

A sign for the financial ratings agency Fitch in London, U.K. (Matt Lloyd/Bloomberg via Getty Images)