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The past seven days were undoubtedly the most emotional, unexpected, and for many – devastating in a long time. One of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges – FTX – filed for a voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy with the US after failing to honor customer withdrawals and revealing a multi-billion liquidity hole. It’s not particularly clear how it all went down and when exactly FTX started having issues due to the complete lack of transparency on behalf of now-former CEO...

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FTX has filed for Chapter 11 Proceedings in the United States. This follows the fiasco over the past couple of days where the company failed to honor its customer’s withdrawal requests. In a press release shared minutes ago, FTX announced that the group will be filing for Chapter 11 Proceedings in the United States. According to the release, FTX, Alameda Research, as well as 130 additional affiliated companies that are associated with FTX, have commenced the voluntary...

The President of El Salvador – Nayib Bukele – reportedly dismissed the arising rumors that his country holds its bitcoin stash on the battered cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The information was revealed by Binance’s CEO – Changpeng Zhao – who said he discussed the matter with the political leader. The Central American nation became the first to make bitcoin legal tender inside its borders. It has purchased over 2,381 coins on a macroeconomic level which equals over $41 million...

Europe’s largest digital asset investment and trading group – CoinShares – revealed that approximately 11% of its total net asset value is situated on the crypto exchange FTX. Another firm experiencing similar issues is Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital, which holds more than $76 million worth of exposure to the troubled firm. In a recent interview for Bloomberg, CoinShares said nearly $26 million of its exposure to FTX consists of US dollars and Circle’s stablecoin USDC....

Major venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has written down the value of its investment in the beleaguered crypto exchange FTX, to zero. Notably, the company was part of the investors who participated in FTX’s $900 million funding round in July 2021, which brought the exchange’s valuation to $18 billion at the time. Sequoia Marks Down FTX Investment to $0 In a note to limited partners (LPs), which was revealed via Sequoia’s Twitter handle on Thursday (November 10, 2022), the...

Amid the problems plaguing cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the Securities Commission of the Bahamas (SCB) has frozen the firm’s assets. The Bahamian regulator also got the court to appoint a provisional liquidator for FTX. In a press release posted by Nassau Guardian via Twitter on Thursday (November 10, 2022), the Commission revealed it had frozen assets of FTX Digital Markets (FDM) “and related parties.” Back in September 2021, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried announced that the...

Canada’s Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) is in jeopardy due to its large investment in the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which is currently facing a significant liquidity crunch. A recent report from The Globe and Mail revealed that OTPP invested in FTX a year ago when the firm was valued at $25 billion. The pension plan bought its first FTX stake in October 2022 during a $420 million funding round alongside 69 other investors. Teachers’ Pension Plan in Trouble as FTX...

Indonesia plans to give its Financial Services Authority (OJK) the power to regulate cryptocurrency investments and market oversight.   The country’s Trade Ministry currently polices the digital asset industry in collaboration with the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency. However, Indonesia’s finance minister, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, said the country would transfer the authority to OJK to protect consumer interests.  Indonesia Concerned About Investors’ Assets ...

Investment banking company Jefferies Group’s CEO, Richard “Rich” Handler, took to Twitter to reveal that he unsuccessfully tried to get in touch with FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried earlier this year when the latter was offering bailouts to several troubled firms. While sharing his “personal email trail” on “non-meeting with FTX,” Handler revealed several snapshots that he had sent to an unknown person enquiring if they knew Bankman-Fried. The emails were dated July 2022. The...