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FTX’s 115-page list of potential creditors reads like an alphabetical accounting of the who’s who of business. The now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange owes money to Apple, Google, Verizon, Netflix and a slew of companies, including BlackRock, that are fixtures of the Fortune 500. On Wednesday, lawyers for FTX submitted the long-anticipated inventory of FTX’s debt in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, which only included names of institutions and companies, not individual creditors…. Source link

FTX’s 115-page list of potential creditors reads like an alphabetical accounting of the who’s who of business. The now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange owes money to Apple, Google, Verizon, Netflix and a slew of companies, including BlackRock, that are fixtures of the Fortune 500. On Wednesday, lawyers for FTX submitted the long-anticipated inventory of FTX’s debt in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, which only included names of institutions and companies, not individual… Source link

Collapsed crypto exchange FTX said Tuesday it has identified $5.5 billion of liquid assets, but said based on current estimates both the international and U.S. based exchange still face a “substantial shortfall” from what the trading venues owe customers. A court document with the restructuring team’s most recent findings shows this $5.5 billion includes $1.7 billion of cash, $3.5 billion of crypto assets, and $0.3 billion of securities. Some $1.7 billion of the company’s assets are being held… Source link

Bahamian authorities arrested former FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Monday evening. The development comes the day before Bankman-Fried had agreed to testify before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee regarding the collapse of his Nassau-based exchange. According to a statement shared by the Bahamian Office of the Attorney General & Ministry of Legal Affairs, the Royal Bahamas Police detained Bankman-Fried following receipt of formal notification from the United States it has… Source link

By Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen and Angus Berwick (Reuters) -FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors on Monday, the day before he was due to testify before Congress about the abrupt failure last month of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The arrest marks a stunning fall from grace for the 30-year-old entrepreneur who rode a boom in bitcoin and other digital assets to become a billionaire many times over until FTX’s rapid… Source link

Ahead of Tuesday’s U.S. House Financial Services Committee hearing on FTX, John Jay Ray III, FTX’s new CEO since bankruptcy, filed written testimony which outlines several “unacceptable management practices,” the new CEO uncovered at the bankrupt crypto exchange. Ray said in prepared remarks FTX’s demise was due to “the absolute concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals.” Additionally, Ray, who led the liquidation of… Source link

In a nearly 90-minute interview at the New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday, disgraced FTX cofounder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said he “didn’t try to commit fraud” as his crypto empire collapsed in a matter of days earlier this month. Speaking with Andrew Ross Sorkin remotely from the Bahamas, Bankman-Fried, known as SBF in the crypto world, stated: “I did not knowingly commingle funds” between FTX and the trading firm Almadea Research, which he also co-founded. In his first… Source link

Bitcoin recovered above US$16,000 in Wednesday morning trading as it rose along with Ether and the rest of the crypto top 10 by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins, as the market shook off lingering doubts from earlier in the week of further contagion from the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX.   See related article: Cathie Woods buys the dip as Ark Invest scoops up Coinbase, GBTC shares: Bloomberg Fast facts Bitcoin rose 2.6% to US$16,198 in the 24 hours to 8 a.m. in Hong Kong, while… Source link

The FTX collapse that is ballooning into arguably the biggest financial story of 2022 is worsening for Tom Brady, Steph Curry and other major endorsers of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency platform. The director of enforcement for the Texas State Securities Board has announced that state regulators are investigating multiple celebrity endorsers tied to the FTX trading platform. The probe is an an effort to determine whether securities laws were violated by Brady, Curry and others while… Source link

Lawyers representing FTX in the firm’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings called the company’s swift demise earlier this month “the most abrupt and difficult collapse in the history of corporate America” in comments before a Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday. “Your honor, what we have is a worldwide organization that was run effectively as the personal fiefdom of Sam Bankman-Fried,” James Bromley, newly appointed counsel to FTX’s new management, said. Substantial investments, according to… Source link