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

Bitstamp Backs BCB’s SWIFT Alternative for Instant Cash-Crypto Settlements

BCB Group is launching an instant settlement network for cash and crypto.

OKCoin Lightning Network

Policy

Banks Won't Rush to Hold Crypto – But OCC's Regulatory Approval Makes It Harder to Ignore

Regulatory approval doesn't mean banks are about to begin providing crypto custody, but it is accelerating a conversation about financial institutions safeguarding bitcoin.

OCC

Finance

How One Firm Is Addressing the Interoperability Problem Posed by FATF's 'Travel Rule'

Crypto companies building solutions to the FATF "Travel Rule" may be creating a new interoperability problem. Netki is offering a fix.

(Kumiko SHIMIZU/Unsplash)

Finance

PayPal Picks Paxos to Supply Crypto for New Service, Sources Say

PayPal has chosen Paxos to handle the new service’s supply of digital assets, according to two people familiar with the matter.

paypal, venmo, hq

Finance

Coffee Giant Behind Folgers, Café Bustelo Taps IBM for Track-and-Trace Blockchain

IBM is giving its blockchain track-and-trace capabilities the social-impact treatment with a provenance application focused on coffee.

Coffee berries (Rodrigo Flores/Unsplash)

Finance

Morgan Creek Leads $2.8M Seed Round for Crypto Insurance Upstart Evertas

Formerly called BlockRe, the crypto insurance provider raised the seed round from Morgan Creek,Plug n Play, Kailash Ventures and other investors.

dollars

Finance

Shyft Debuts ‘Decentralized Version of SWIFT’ for FATF 'Travel Rule'

Shyft Network says 30+ exchanges are testing its blockchain-based solution to help cryptocurrency companies comply with the FATF Travel Rule.

Shyft Network co-founder Joseph Weinberg speaks at Consensus 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

BitGo Looks to Rally Exchange Clients Around FATF Travel Rule Product

BitGo has joined the pack of solution providers attempting to bring crypto in line with FATF anti-money laundering standards.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe (right) speaks at CoinDesk's Invest: NYC 2019. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Ethereum and EOSIO Square Up Over Enterprise Blockchain Business in Latin America

With ConsenSys in one corner and LatamLink in the other, a project backed by the Inter-American Development Bank is weighing Ethereum vs. EOS tech.

Birds in Costa Rica

Finance

Binance Labs Leads $1M Seed Round in Crypto Tor Alternative HOPR

Binance Labs, the seed funding arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange, has made its first investment of 2020, backing privacy startup HOPR.

HOPR's founding team: Robert Kiel, Sebastian Bürgel and Rik Krieger.