As early as August, eight months before the exchange’s tragic demise in November, the Australian financial authorities apparently voiced worries about FTX’s local Australian affiliate. Guardian Australia has received documents showing that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) was worried about FTX Australia’s operations after it was granted a
The crypto sector is still feeling the after-effects of the FTX fiasco with several firms laying off staff trying to cut down expenses. One of the greatest scams in history has allowed the SEC to take a stringent approach toward the crypto sector. Now according to FEC documents, many high-ranking
A surprising development in the current FTX fraud case is that Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF’s) lawyers have urged that he should be given access to the assets and cryptocurrency held by his former firm FTX. Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO of FTX on November 11th, 2022 post-filing Bankruptcy, and is now out
The year 2022 has been a terrible year for the crypto market, with investors facing severe lows and the collapse of the LUNA/Terra, and the bankruptcy of significant corporations like FTX leading to the crypto facing bears, and despite all of this loss, many still have faith in the cryptocurrency
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the co-founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has reportedly attempted to influence the witnesses. In a recent court document, the U.S. prosecutors declared that the former CEO of FTX tried to persuade a witness in the case being investigated by the US government. In the wake
The crypto communities keenly observed FTX case had taken a few new turns such as the request for interrogating the previous CEO’s parent and sibling. The Bankman-Fried family will probably be answering the FTX lawyer’s question under the oath. Courts proceedings between the SEC and the collapsed crypto firm FTX
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) of the United States is advising lawmakers to grant regulators the authority to examine the books of any firm seeking to acquire a significant interest in any registered market player. Commissioner Kristin Johnson has proposed that Congress pass legislation to close the current oversight
According to court documents, the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX owes money to several companies, including Apple, Binance, Coinbase, Netflix, and more. At a hearing in early January, Judge John Dorsey, who is dealing with the case, ordered the identities of specific creditors to stay hidden for three months, but he
Another member of the Digital Currency Group (DCG) has announced layoffs, a further indicator of continued market instability that started with the Genesis bankruptcy. The Luno exchange announced the termination of almost 35% of its worldwide workforce, citing market volatility as the reason for the cuts. Consensys, the firm behind
According to unaltered financial data that was accidentally posted on Tuesday, insolvent crypto lender BlockFi is connected to SBF’s FTX and Alameda Research to the tune of around $1.2 billion. Moreover, according to CNBC, the January 14 confidential financial data shows that BlockFi filings comprise a loan to Alameda of
