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

France Tests CBDC Flows With Singapore Using Automated Liquidity Pool

Running on JPMorgan’s Onyx blockchain, it was the first cross-border CBDC transaction to use automated-market-making smart contracts.

The Bank of France is one of Europe's leading voices on CBDCs.

Finance

Crypto Insurance Platform Coincover Raises $9.2M as Big Firms Seek Safety

The Series A round led by Element Ventures included DRW Venture Capital and Susquehanna Private Equity Investments.

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Finance

Ethereum-Based Shyft Network Launches, Aims for FATF-Compliant DeFi

The mainnet will host a “decentralized SWIFT” and look to connect DeFi pools without sacrificing composability.

Shyft Network co-founder Joseph Weinberg

Finance

Binance Said to Be Hiring ‘UK Version of Brian Brooks’

The crypto exchange is looking for a U.K.-based ex-regulator or government official, according to people familiar with the plans.

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Finance

Aave, Fireblocks and Galaxy Explore Next Steps Toward Permissioned DeFi

The whitelisting and blacklisting of DeFi participants will make life easier for institutions, but potentially at a cost.

Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, speaks at Consensus 2019.

Finance

BaFin-Licensed DeFi Firm Swarm Starts Onboarding $15M of Pledged Liquidity

Swarm Markets, which claims to be the world’s first regulated DeFi protocol, says 250 customers have ponied up funds.

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Policy

FATF Report on Extreme Right Financing Highlights Cryptocurrency Use

“Some [extreme right-wing] groups have used so called ‘privacy coins,’” the FATF report states.

FATF Financial Action Task Force

Finance

Algorand Gets Cozy With Crypto Custodian Copper

Algorand is looking beyond Copper’s safe-keeping provisions to explore the custodian’s ClearLoop system of instant asset exchange and settlement.

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Finance

Crypto Trading Firm Valkyrie Raises $10M to Drive Bitcoin ETF Hopes

Tron founder Justin Sun, Litecoin founder Charlie Lee and former Major League pitcher C.J. Wilson participated in the round.

Valkyrie has filed for a bitcoin futures ETF.

Finance

DeFi Meets AI: Fetch.ai Launches ‘Intelligent Automation’ for Uniswap V2 and PancakeSwap

Users will be able to create up to five “DeFi Agents” with stop-loss triggers.

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