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

Coinbase Sees TradFi Institutions Driving Crypto Derivatives Boom

The listed exchange expects a rebalance from Asia's dominance towards U.S. and Europe-based, non-market maker institutions.

Usman Naeem, global head of derivative sales at Coinbase (Coinbase)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Coinbase Introduces Its Own Stablecoin Payments Platform

Coinbase Business, as the new service is called, will simplify vendor payments, eliminate chargebacks, and offer seamless API integrations.

Tom Duff Gordon, vice president of international policy at Coinbase, hosts a panel with former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and former UK Chancellor George Osborne at the recent Coinbase Crypto Forum in London (Coinbase)

Finance

France’s Lise Wins License to Launch Europe’s First Tokenized Stock Exchange

The Paris-based exchange has secured a distributed ledger technology license from French regulator ACPR.

France bank

Finance

Societe Generale-FORGE and Bitpanda Expand Partnership to Bring Regulated Stablecoins to DeFi

The move makes SG-FORGE’s euro and dollar stablecoins available to retail users across Europe through Bitpanda’s DeFi wallet

SocGen sign outside an office building

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Finance

Bybit Snags UAE’s Virtual Asset Platform Operator License

ByBit says it’s the first crypto exchange to get this nod from UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority.

Dubai UAE (Pexels, Pixabay)

Finance

Bittensor’s Decentralized AI Studio, Yuma, Launches Asset Management Arm

Yuma Asset Management, a gateway to the Bittensor AI ecosystem for accredited investors, is the latest decentralized AI driving force from DCG's Barry Silbert.

 Yuma founder and CEO Barry Silbert (DCG)

Finance

Majority of Institutions Expect to Double Digital Asset Exposure by 2028: State Street

Tokenized private markets seen as first major wave of blockchain adoption, the survey by State Street highlighted

State Street building in London (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Luxembourg Claims Bragging Rights as First Eurozone Nation to Invest in Bitcoin

Luxembourg’s Intergenerational Sovereign Wealth Fund (FSIL) has invested 1% of its holdings in Bitcoin ETFs, making it the first state level fund in the Eurozone to do so.

Luxembourg chamber of deputies

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Finance

Ex-Revolut Team Offers Leveraged Bitcoin Strategy to Build Retail Crypto Wealth

Neverless lets everyday investors use automated recurring buys with up to 5x leverage to grow bitcoin holdings

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Finance

Crypto-Focused AMINA Bank of Switzerland Offers Regulated Staking of Polygon Token

The bank claims to be the first to offer regulated staking for Polygon’s native token (POL), with rewards of up to 15%.

Lucerne, Switzerland