Ian Allison

Senior Reporter

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.

Latest from Ian Allison

Finance

Anchorage Crypto Custody Clients Get Investment Returns Via Deal With Cumberland-Backed Hashnote

Hashnote Harbor will enable clients to earn yields on digital commodities without the assets ever leaving the custody of Anchorage Digital.

Jul 1, 2024

Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley (CoinDesk)

Finance

Prime Broker Hidden Road Adds Major Crypto Exchanges, Expands Use of BlackRock’s BUIDL Token

Hidden Road is now integrated with Coinbase International Exchange, OKX, Deribit, Bitfinex, AsiaNext, SIX Digital Exchange and Bullish.

Jul 1, 2024

Michael Higgins, global head of business development at Hidden Road (Hidden Road)

Finance

Crypto Execution-Only Platform Crossover Markets Raises $12M

The Series A round was led by Illuminate Financial and DRW Venture Capital.

Jun 26, 2024

Crossover Markets cofounders (left to right): Anthony Mazzarese (CCO), Brandon Mulvihill (CEO), Vladislav Rysin (CTO) (Crossover Markets)

Finance

Kraken’s Derivatives Arm Joins Copper’s Crypto Settlement Network

Copper’s ClearLoop provides institutions with connectivity to OKX, Bybit, Deribit, BIT, Gate.io, Bitfinex, Bitget and PowerTrade, with Bitstamp and Bitmart soon to go live.

Jun 24, 2024

(l-r) Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer, Kraken MTF CEO Mark Jennings, Komainu COO Suzanne Hubble (AIM Summit)

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.

Jun 24, 2024

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.

Jun 20, 2024