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

Don't Tell Anyone, but Private Blockchains Handle Over $1.5T of Securities Financing a Month

Permission-based repo ledgers are among the most successful applications of blockchain technology.

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Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Adds ‘One-Click’ Audits, Tax Reporting

Software from Web3 accounting company Tres works with a wide range of digital asset networks, and can be integrated with accounting software such as QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite.

Fireblocks sign at Miami airport during Bitcoin Miami conference 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Swiss National Bank and SDX Delve Deeper Into CBDCs, Tokenized Securities

The next two-year phase of Project Helvetia will see other financial institutions and types of transactions join the party.

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Finance

National Australia Bank’s Venture Arm Invests in Crypto-Focused Zodia Custody

Zodia Custody established operations in Australia in late 2023

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Finance

Consensys Helps Decentralize Hollywood With Film.io and VillageDAO Partnership

Film.io is the first partner to join VillageDAO, a smart contract framework and service provider for Web3 communities.

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Finance

Coinbase's Former Head of Communications Joins Worldcoin

Elliott Suthers has joined biometric data and crypto firm Worldcoin.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Stablecoin Issuers Want to Give Something Back in Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market Race

Amid a new generation of yield-bearing stablecoins, PayPal is confident in its purely payments-focused PYUSD.

A U.S. dollar coin balances on top of rocks

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Partners With Coinbase International Exchange for More 'Reliable' Trading

Fireblocks customers can now connect to their Coinbase International Exchange account and protect exchange operations using the custody tech firm’s governance and policy rules.

Fireblocks sign at Miami airport during Bitcoin Miami conference 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Fidelity International Tokenizes Money Market Fund on JPMorgan’s Blockchain

The U.K. firm joined JPMorgan’s Tokenized Collateral Network (TCN), piloting the tokenization of its own money market fund with Onyx Digital Assets.

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Finance

Kraken Said to be Raising Over $100M Pre-IPO Funding: Bloomberg

Kraken is looking to raise more than $100 million and this may be completed by the end of this year, Bloomberg reported.

Kraken Crypto App