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

Celsius CFO Arrested on Charges Tied to Former Job at Moshe Hogeg’s Firm

Yaron Shalem, the CFO of crypto lender Celsius, previously worked at Singulariteam, whose founder, Hogeg, was arrested last week on money laundering and other charges.

(National Gallery of Art, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Jutta Steiner Leaves Polkadot Builder Parity Technologies

The CEO stepped away earlier this year after running the company since 2015, a Parity representative confirmed.

Jutta Steiner (center) (Parity Technologies)

Finance

Soccer Star Andrés Iniesta Warned by Spanish Regulator After Promoting Binance

“I’m learning how to get started with crypto with @binance,” Iniesta told his 25 million Twitter followers.

Kobe, Japan (isseymatnoh/Pixabay)

Finance

JPMorgan Hiring Software Engineers for ‘Collateral Blockchain Tokenization’

The intriguing vacancy doesn’t go into much detail, however.

JPMorgan analysts are trying to figure out what's driving bitcoin. (Getty Images)

Finance

Blockade Games Raises $5M Round at $23M Valuation From Animoca Brands, Others

The round was led by metaverse and NFT stalwart Animoca Brands.

(Marguerite deCourcelle/Blockade Games)

Finance

Bank of England Governor Touts CBDCs Over Stablecoins: Report

BoE chief Andrew Bailey said the bank wouldn’t be moving into the retail bank account business through a CBDC.

Bank of England Chief Andrew Bailey

Finance

Citi Plans to Hire 100 Staffers for Beefed-Up Crypto Division

The bank has also named Puneet Singhvi as head of digital assets for its institutional clients group starting Dec. 1.

Close up of Citigroup logo on the side of a building.

Finance

Algorand Project Raises $3.6M to Make Cross-Chain DeFi Friendly for Big Investors

C3 will operate a cross-chain clearing engine in the same way prime brokers act as a hub for collateral management in traditional finance.

(Jainath Ponnala/Unsplash)

Tech

Polkadot Chief Promises Freedom From Ethereum’s ‘Economic Enslavement’

Polkadot creator (and Ethereum co-founder) Gavin Wood says Ethereum is actually closer to Bitcoin than many of its adherents would freely admit.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood (Parity Technologies)

Finance

Switzerland’s Six Digital Exchange Launches With Blockchain Bond

The SDX blockchain bond is the first digital issuance that uses regulated market infrastructure, according to parent company SIX.

A SIX logo sits on the exterior of the Six Swiss Exchange AG stock exchange in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. In a move that has implications for Brexit, Switzerland disallowed the trading of its shares on the bloc's bourses as of July 1 to prevent a drop in liquidity as it faced the expiry of its recognition under European Union rules. Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images