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

Major European Bank Said to Be Building Crypto Custody Arm

CACEIS, the European custody bank with $4.96 trillion in assets under custody, is working with Swiss tech firm Metaco, sources say.

Commuters arrive in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, June 9, 2021. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Market Making on Polkadot Gets Prospective Boost With $22.3M Raised by dTrade

Which of the investors will be the primary market makers on the derivatives DEX is still to be finalized.

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Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Opens Switzerland Office

Morgan Stanley alum Ana Santillan and former Bitcoin Suisse executive Richard Astle will co-lead the new office.

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Finance

Zero-Knowledge Credit Risk Platform X-Margin Raises $8M

Coinbase Ventures, HashKey Capital and Spartan Group participated in the Series A funding round.

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Finance

Binance.US Hires Ant Group Exec to Succeed Ex-CEO Brian Brooks

Brian Shroder’s brother, Matt Shroder, also works for Binance, as a vice president heading up the global markets team in Singapore.

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Finance

Tapiero’s 10T Holdings Tops Off War Chest With $389M for Crypto Investments

The private equity firm has raised a total of $750 million since launching last year.

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Markets

Flexa Hops Into El Salvador With Lightning Payments as Bitcoin Law Goes Live

Crypto payments firms are rushing into El Salvador as bitcoin becomes legal tender.

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Finance

Former Libra Director Joins Polkadot Builder

Bertrand Perez is joining the Web3 Foundation as chief operating officer after resigning from the Facebook-linked Diem in July.

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Finance

Moody’s Wants to Get Its Head Around DeFi

The credit-ratings giant is looking for staff to support research on DeFi, CBDCs, stablecoins, NFTs and other crypto-assets.

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