Tagged: ftx

December 14, 2022 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

The Senate Banking Committee hearing on FTX, taking place today, has extended the discourse on the collapse of what was once one of the largest crypto exchanges in operation. While not involving any current FTX employees, testimony and perspective are being provided by four different… Read More

December 13, 2022 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

This afternoon, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York held a press conference discussing the indictment of Sam Bankman-Fried, the one-time CEO of FTX and now the alleged perpetrator of one of the largest frauds in history. As the details emerge,… Read More

December 13, 2022 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

The US Attorney’s Office, Southern District New York, has unsealed the criminal charges filed against Sam Bankman-Fried and his firms including FTX. The criminal charges were revealed yesterday when the Bahamas announced it expected to extradite Bankman-Fried following a formal request. The indictment states that… Read More

December 13, 2022 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

The rising concern of more enforcement actions targeting crypto exchanges is taking a toll on the world’s largest centralized operation Binance, according to a report by Reuters.  Citing data provided by Nansen, it is being claimed that Binance has experienced $1.9 billion in withdrawals in… Read More

December 13, 2022 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Sheila Warren, CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, has issued a  statement on the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX. The statement was issued prior to the announcement of civil charges being filed by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodities Futures… Read More

December 13, 2022 @ 7:52 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed fraud charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of FTX. The crypto exchange filed bankruptcy last month as allegations of malfeasance surfaced. In a simultaneous action, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced charges as well…. Read More

December 12, 2022 @ 11:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Representative Maxine Waters, Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, has issued a statement following Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest in the Bahamas. As was reported earlier, Bankman-Fried was taken into custody by Bahamian authorities following the revelation of an indictment by the US Department of Justice…. Read More

December 12, 2022 @ 7:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of FTX, has been placed under arrest in the Bahamas. Bankman-Fried has lived in the Bahamas since FTX became a regulated entity under Bahamanian law. FTX filed for bankruptcy protection last month under US law. Bankman-Fried was arrested… Read More

December 12, 2022 @ 3:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tomorrow’s hearing at the House Financial Services Committee is widely anticipated across the crypto industry. Both current FTX CEO, John J. Ray, III, and former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, are scheduled to testify on the collapse of FTX. In advance of the hearing, Ray has… Read More

December 11, 2022 @ 5:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

For a brief moment in time, Chengpeng “CZ” Zhou, founder and CEO of Binance, and Sam Bankman-Fried founder of FTX and now disgraced former CEO, appeared to be frenemies. CZ indicated he would bail out FTX as the bank-run type event destroyed all liquidity at… Read More

December 11, 2022 @ 4:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last Friday, the Senate Banking Committee issued a statement as to whether or not, Sam Bankman-Fried will attend a Hearing on the FTX disaster and ensuing bankruptcy filing. The hearing is scheduled for next week on December 14, a day after the House Committee on… Read More

December 9, 2022 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of FTX – the now bankrupt crypto exchange, has committed to testifying in front of the House Committee on Financial Services to discuss the collapse of FTX and affiliated entities. The agreement to testify came today following a back… Read More

December 7, 2022 @ 3:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), the only publicly traded crypto exchange, is not having a very good year. In fact, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently commented in an interview that revenue in fiscal year 2022 is expected to be half of what the exchange delivered in 2021. The… Read More

December 7, 2022 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

This past Mondy, Silvergate (NYSE:SI) CEO Alan Lane took the extraordinary measure of posting a public letter defending his bank’s handling of the accounts of now bankrupt FTX and affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. Silvergate is a regulated bank that has been a leader in working… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Representative Maxine Waters, Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services, returned to Twitter to prod Sam Bankman-Fried to testify in front of a Committee hearing next week on the FTX bankruptcy. Earlier this month, Chair Waters invited Bankman-Fried to testify via Twitter. Bankman-Fried responded,… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 10:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Silvergate (NYSE:SI), a west coast banking operation that has been a leader in supporting the digital asset sector, is not getting a lot of love these days. Its relationships with previously high-flying crypto platforms have come back to haunt the bank. Silvergate started 2022 with… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

The failure of FTX and the allegations of fraud pointed at founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried continue to garner much coverage in both traditional media as well as more modern digital news providers. The speed of the collapse, and the amount of funds involved… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 5:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the Senate Agriculture Committee, which has oversight of commodities markets, held a hearing on the collapse of FTX, once an inside-the-beltway darling, today a virtual pariah as policymakers rush to react to the bankruptcy of the crypto exchange. Before the crypto exchange went bust,… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 4:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, has agreed to testify in front of the House Committee on Financial Services contingent upon what happens from now until December 13th – the day the hearing is scheduled. As was previously reported, the Chair… Read More

December 3, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Representative Maxine Waters, the Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services, has Tweeted asking Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO and founder of FTX, to testify in front of her Committee this month. Bankman-Fried has been making the PR rounds in the wake of the collapse… Read More