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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HSBC Exec Warns 'Digital Islands' Could Inhibit Blockchain Trade

Blockchains should do for the global value chain what shipping containers did for transport of goods, says HSBC trade finance expert Vinay Mendonca.

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Public or Private? Blockchain Distinctions Are Falling Out of Fashion

"Convergence" means different things to different people in the blockchain space. But it's a word that's cropping up again and again.

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Taking Back Power: An Upstart Government Plans to Tokenize Energy

The plan is to incentivize solar power generation by circumventing rules inhibiting its adoption made by Madrid.

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IHS Markit Has A Plan to Tokenize A $1 Trillion Loan Market

IHS Markit is developing a blockchain-based system to handle cash payments in syndicated loans – and eventually, in a wider range of transactions.

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The Auto Industry Is Gearing Up for a Blockchain-Powered Future

Automotive executives are starting to wake up to the use cases of blockchain in the industry, but there's a way to go.

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Capital Markets Blockchains Are Finally Getting Go-Live Dates

Big financial market infrastructure players detailed their progress on blockchain conversions, with real timelines for going live, at Consensus 2018.

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Axoni, Clearmatics Claim Milestone for Blockchain Interoperability

In a first for interoperability, Axoni and Clearmatics have shown how a derivative contract written on one blockchain can be settled on another.

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AWS Moves to Simplify Production-Grade Business Blockchains

Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is partnering with ethereum startup ConsenSys to make enterprise blockchains easier to deploy.

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JP Morgan's New DLT Lead: We're Not Done With Blockchain Innovation

Christine Moy, Amber Baldet's successor at JPMorgan, shares her thoughts on the future of enterprise DLT and the role of public blockchain networks.

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The Next Generation of Crypto Exchanges Has One Big Missing Piece

Decentralized exchanges could unlock the potential of blockchains, but they face pragmatic issues today in gaining the marketshare of alternatives.

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