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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.

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Finance

Add Coinbase to the List of Crypto Stocks HSBC Won't Touch

An HSBC representative said the bank has “limited appetite to facilitate products or securities that derive their value from virtual currencies.”

Apr 15, 2021

HSBC Operations in Singapore As Bank Plans To Accelerate Expansion Across Asia

Finance

Bitcoin Price Lifts Crypto Stocks Ahead of Coinbase Listing

Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy was up 18.5% in global markets. His firm’s bitcoin proxy stock wasn’t alone in seeing green.

Apr 14, 2021

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Finance

This VC Gave Coinbase Its First Check

Initialized Capital’s Garry Tan first came across Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong when the latter was still at his day job debugging Airbnb.

Apr 13, 2021

Initialized Capital co-founder Garry Tan

Finance

Swiss Custody Firm METACO Primed to Offer DeFi to Banks

A first wave of private banks is looking for exposure to DeFi and staking, but with an easy user interface.

Apr 13, 2021

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Finance

Ethereum Hub ConsenSys Raises $65M From JPMorgan, Mastercard, UBS, Others

ConsenSys has multi-year commercial arrangements with JPMorgan and Mastercard, and commercial activity happening with UBS, said founder Joe Lubin.

Apr 13, 2021

ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin

Finance

How the Coveted 'COIN' Ticker Found Its Way to Coinbase

London-listed Coinsilium has been trading under COIN since 2015. The Winklevoss twins registered the symbol for their proposed bitcoin ETF back in 2014. How did Coinbase land it in 2021?

Apr 12, 2021

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at CoinDesk's Consensus 2019.

Finance

Rap Icon Nas Could Net $100M When Coinbase Lists on Nasdaq

Nasir Jones’ QueensBridge Venture Partners invested in 2013. A source familiar with the matter confirmed QueensBridge is still on the Coinbase cap table.

Apr 12, 2021

Nas performs in Oakland, Calif., Feb. 21, 2020.

Finance

Communitas Capital's 'Infrastructure-First' Investing Approach Is Paying Off With Coinbase and Others

Ex-Reuters CEO Tom Glocer was an angel investor in Coinbase’s 2015 Series C round. Here are the other crypto VC bets his Communitas Capital is making.

Apr 9, 2021

Communitas Capital co-founder Tom Glocer

Finance

Anchorage Is Supporting DeFi Governance Token TRIBE Despite Its FEI Troubles

The TRIBE governance token’s FEI stablecoin project recently saw whales making gains and retail getting rekt.

Apr 8, 2021

Anchorage CEO Nathan McCauley

Finance

State Street May Start Trading Crypto on Platform It's Helping Build

The plan is to transpose FX infrastructure to the crypto space via a bank-led consortium.

Apr 8, 2021

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