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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Crypto Trading Platform ErisX Hires Serial Exchange Founder Matt Trudeau

Matt Trudeau, who has overseen some 10 global market launches, has joined crypto trading firm ErisX as chief strategy officer.

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BitGo Brings Banker Out of Retirement to Lead Institutional Crypto Custody

Ex-Banker Dick Corcoran will oversee billions of dollars in value as CEO of the recently formed BitGo Trust Company.

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R3’s New Corda App Supports Payments in XRP Cryptocurrency

R3 has launched the Corda Settler, an app aimed to facilitate global crypto payments within enterprise blockchains – and it's starting with XRP.

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Banking Giant State Street Is Waiting on Client Demand for Crypto Custody

State Street bank says there's no sense of urgency yet from clients for it to move into safeguarding crypto assets.

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Fidelity Looking to Expand Digital Asset Trading Beyond Bitcoin and Ether

Fidelity Investments is looking to expand its institutional crypto asset platform to include trading services for the top five to seven cryptocurrencies by market cap.

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Amber Baldet: Don’t Force Public Blockchains ‘Down Enterprises’ Throats’

Until there are well-designed privacy features for enterprise applications on public chains, it's premature for firms to use them, says Amber Baldet.

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The Crypto Insurance Market May Total $6 Billion. That's Nowhere Near Enough

There is less than $5 billion of global capacity to insure crypto wallets held in custody. Coinbase has secured a significant chunk of that.

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IBM and Intel's Blockchain Tug of War

More than a potential competition between blockchain platforms, tensions between IBM and Intel point to bigger questions around governance.

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15 Banks Join DTCC Post-Trade Blockchain as Project Enters Testing

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is now testing its main blockchain project with 15 global banks, before taking the tech live in 2019. 

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PwC Is Advising (Not Auditing) Another Stablecoin Project

PwC's Hong Kong division is exploring best practices for issuing stablecoins with non-profit Loopring Foundation. Auditing, though, is another matter.

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