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.

Ian Allison

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Finance

PayPal's Move to Allow Crypto Transfers to External Wallets the First Step Away From Fiat World, CEO Says

The payment services giant will allow users to turn crypto into fiat for use at any one of 35 million merchant accounts.

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/Getty Images)

Finance

American Express Adds First Crypto Product With Abra Rewards Card

A long time in the making, the Abra Crypto Card will be the first Amex cryptocurrency product, said Abra CEO Bill Barhydt.

American Express (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Finance

Fidelity’s Abby Johnson Reaffirms Crypto Commitment in Bear Market

The CEO sees opportunities to buy on a dip.

Abby Johnson, chairman and CEO of Fidelity Investments, chats with Matt Walsh, founding partner at Castle Island Ventures, at Consensus 2022. (Suzanne Cordiero)

Finance

Ocean Protocol Leans on NFTs to Drive Decentralized Data Markets

Version 4 of Ocean Protocol uses NFTs for more flexible handling and the monetization of curated data sets.

Ocean is rolling out version 4 of its network. (Anastasia Taioglou/Unsplash)

Finance

Citadel Securities Is Building a Crypto Trading Marketplace With Virtu Financial: Sources

The effort also includes Citadel’s recent VC backers, Sequoia and Paradigm, with more trading firms to come, according to a source familiar with the plans.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for The New York Times)

Finance

PayPal Ups Crypto Push: Users Can Now Move Coins to Other Wallets and Exchanges

PayPal crypto chief Jose Fernandez da Ponte said plans to let users move their crypto holdings to third-party wallets have been in the works since 2021.

PayPal is now allowing its users to transfer coins from its platform to other wallets and exchanges. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance.US Launches Crypto Staking Assault on Rivals Coinbase and Gemini

CEO Brian Shroder also said he would happily hire any of Coinbase’s disappointed applicants or those recently laid off by Gemini.

Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder (Binance.US)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Qredo Adds Blockchain Analytics to FATF ‘Travel Rule’ Offering

Qredo is bringing its APIs to bear on the global push for crypto AML compliance.

(Kelsey Knight/Unsplash)

Finance

Polkadot’s Moonbeam Adds Liquid Staking Giant Lido

The integration was facilitated by staking specialist MixBytes.

The Polkadot pavilion on the Promenade at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Finance

Siam Commercial Bank Is Chasing DeFi Yield Through Compound

The bank’s venture arm, SCB 10X, is using Compound Treasury’s 4% yield service via the Fireblocks custody platform.

Bangkok, Thailand (Noom HH/Getty Images)