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☆ FTX suggests Sam Bankman-Fried transferred assets to Bahamas government custody after bankruptcy: Filing
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Rohan Goswami | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

FTX in a bombshell emergency court filing Thursday said evidence suggests Bahamian regulators directed former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to gain "unauthorized access" to FTX systems to obtain digital assets belonging to the company after it had filed for bankruptcy protection. The filing said that Bankman-Fried transferred those assets to the custody of the Bahamian government. It cites an interview published by Vox on Wednesday where Bankman-Fried expresses serious disdain for regulators. In that motion, FTX said the alleged conduct puts "in serious question" a request by Bahamian regulators for recognition as liquidators in the bankruptcy. The appointment of the JPLs and recognition of the Chapter 15 Case are thus in serious question," the filing continued.

☆ An executive at an FTX affiliate threw up when he learnt of the crypto exchange's impending collapse, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

FTX Digital Markets' co-CEO threw up when he learnt of FTX's problems, sources told the WSJ. A former EY senior tax account, Salame joined Alameda in 2019 before helping him set up FTX parent company FTX Trading Ltd. In September 2021 Salame became co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, which describes itself as the Bahamian subsidiary of FTX Trading Ltd. "FTX Digital Markets offers users regulated access to FTX's industry-leading derivatives, options, volatility products, and other FTX products and services," it says on its LinkedIn page. FTX Digital Markets filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York.

Nov 16 (Reuters) - Crypto lender Genesis Global Capital suspended customer redemptions on Wednesday, citing the sudden failure of crypto exchange FTX, while court papers showed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces legal action. After a flurry of tweets and interviews by Bankman-Fried, FTX said he "has no ongoing role" at the company and does not speak on its behalf. LEGAL ACTIONMeanwhile, U.S. court filings showed Bankman-Fried is facing legal action in the United States from investors alleging the company's yield-bearing crypto accounts violated Florida law. U.S. and Bahamian authorities were discussing the possibility of bringing Bankman-Fried to the United States for questioning, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Elsewhere, crypto exchange Binance said it had not contributed to FTX's collapse, in a response to a hearing on the crypto industry by a British parliamentary committee.

Nov 16 (Reuters) - Crypto lender Genesis Global Capital suspended redemptions on Wednesday citing the failure of crypto exchange FTX, while court papers showed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces legal action, as its sudden collapse ripples across the industry. LEGAL ACTIONMeanwhile, U.S. court filings showed Bankman-Fried is facing legal action in the United States from investors alleging the company's yield-bearing crypto accounts violated Florida law. Bloomberg on Tuesday also reported that U.S. and Bahamian authorities were discussing the possibility of bringing Bankman-Fried to the United States for questioning. Elsewhere, crypto exchange Binance, in a response to a hearing on the crypto industry by a British parliamentary committee on Monday, said it had not contributed to FTX's collapse. The U.S. House Financial Services Committee said Wednesday it plans to hold a hearing in December to investigate the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

☆ FTX's Bahamas liquidators "reject the validity" of US bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Dietrich Knauth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Nov 16 (Reuters) - FTX's Bahamas-based liquidators said they "reject the validity" of the crypto exchange's U.S. bankruptcy proceedings, according to court documents filed in the U.S. late Tuesday. FTX and 130 affiliates filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. on Nov. 11, leaving an estimated 1 million customers and other investors facing total losses in the billions of dollars. But its Bahamas subsidiary FTX Digital Markets entered liquidation proceedings first, and its court-appointed liquidators said late Tuesday that their case may "impact" FTX's effort to reorganize in the U.S. Reporting by Dietrich KnauthOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

FTX's bankruptcy case includes more than 100,000 creditors, and this number could surpass 1 million, the filings said. The numbers were disclosed as FTX requested that multiple FTX group companies file one consolidated list of major creditors, rather than separate ones. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationCrypto lender BlockFi, which previously acknowledged it has significant exposure to FTX, plans to lay off workers while preparing to file for bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal reported. Separately, bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital no longer plans to sell itself to FTX, Bloomberg reported, while Canadian crypto exchange Bitvo said it terminated its deal to be bought by FTX. I'm meeting in-person with regulators and working with the teams to do what we can for customers," he said on Twitter.

☆ Bahamas financial regulators appoint liquidators for FTX unit
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 15 (Reuters) - Financial regulators in the Bahamas on Monday appointed liquidators to run FTX's unit in the country, just days after authorities said they were looking for any "criminal misconduct" by the collapsed crypto exchange. The Securities Commission of The Bahamas said it had won court approval and appointed two members from PwC to oversee FTX Digital Markets Ltd, a subsidiary of FTX licensed in the country. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who lives in the Bahamas, has also been the subject of speculation about his whereabouts and he denied rumors on Twitter that he had flown to South America. When asked by Reuters on Saturday whether he had flown to Argentina, he responded in a text message: "Nope". Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu SahuOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

SummarySummary Companies FTX in contact with federal, state, international regulatorsMore than one hundred thousand creditors involved in the bankruptcy case, maybe over one millionBahamas regulator appoints provisional liquidatorsFrench cen. "FTX faced a severe liquidity crisis that necessitated the filing of these cases on an emergency basis last Friday," the court filing stated. Reuters Graphics Reuters GraphicsFTX's bankruptcy case includes more than one hundred thousand creditors, and this number could surpass one million, the filings said. The numbers were disclosed as FTX requested that multiple FTX group companies file one consolidated list of major creditors, rather than separate ones. Canadian crypto exchange Bitvo said on Tuesday it had terminated its deal to be bought by FTX, a deal that had been due to close in the third quarter of this year.

Institutional crypto lending involves lending cryptocurrencies as well as cash in return for a yield. Unsecured lending has become common across the crypto industry, according to the review of filings and the interviews. Crypto research firm Arkham Intelligence put the figure in the region of $10 billion, for instance, while crypto lender TrueFi said at least $25 billion. BULLISH ON BORROWINGWhile Blockchain.com has largely pulled back from unsecured lending, many crypto lenders remain confident about the practice. Sid Powell, co-founder and CEO of unsecured crypto lending platform Maple, said institutional crypto lenders were more cautious after Three Arrows' insolvency, but conditions have since normalized and lenders are now again comfortable lending unsecured.

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