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

Crypto Exchange Kraken’s Canada Customer Deposits Rose 25% After Binance Announced Departure

Kraken also saw a fivefold increase in app downloads within a week of OKX saying it was leaving the country back in March.

Toronto, Canada (Shutterstock)

Tech

Crypto Storage Firm Qredo's Revamped Self-Custody Wallet Goes Live

The New Qredo remains aimed at the institutional crypto market, but now it's low-cost and open to anyone, says COO Josh Goodbody.

Qredo COO Josh Goodbody (Qredo)

Finance

Bitpanda Partners With Coinbase to Help Europe’s Banks Offer Crypto to Customers

Coinbase will use Bitpanda Technology Solutions, a business-to-business infrastructure layer provider, to connect directly into banks and fintechs.

Bitpanda COO Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad (Bitpanda)

Finance

DEX Mangrove Launches on Polygon Testnet, Plans to Go Live on Mainnet in June

Wintermute and Cumberland-backed Mangrove plans a mainnet launch of its programmable order book DEX in early June.

Mangroves can store four times as much carbon as other ainforests, according to the WWF. (Jonathan Wilkins/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Coinbase Praises Canada’s Crypto Approach as U.S. Regulatory Pressure Intensifies

Canada is doing crypto regulation by engagement – “which we love,” said Coinbase’s VP International and Business Development Nana Murugesan.

Canadian regulators are providing more clarity than their U.S. counterparts. (Chris Robert/Unsplash)

Finance

EY Launches Ethereum-Based Carbon Emission Tracking Platform

The EY OpsChain ESG made the announcement at the firm’s Global Blockchain Summit in London.

EY blockchain lead Paul Brody (EY)

Finance

Private-Equity Giant Apollo Is Part of a Bid to Buy Bankrupt Crypto Firm Celsius

The $500 billion-plus firm is involved in NovaWulf's offer for Celsius, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Sculpture of Apollo and Daphne (Unsplash)

Finance

Mastercard Launches Crypto Credential Service for Cross-Border Transfers

The set of verification standards uses technology from CipherTrace, the well-known blockchain analytics platform Mastercard agreed to acquire in late 2021.

Raj Dhamodharan, Head of Crypto and Blockchain, Mastercard (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Chelsea Manning: 'I'm Trying to Put the Cryptography Back in Crypto'

The whistleblower turned security consultant also says the internet's basic infrastructure is not suited to privacy.

Chelsea Manning at Consensus 2023 (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Tokenization Is 'Killer App' for TradFi: JPMorgan

Tyrone Lobban, head of the bank's Onyx digital-assets platform, said JPMorgan is moving forward with tokenization in spite of the downturn in the crypto market.

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