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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...

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes believes FTX is ultimately headed for bankruptcy now that Binance has refused to rescue the company.  The exchange co-founder offered his analysis of what the future holds for FTX on Thursday and offered some predictions for how its crisis will impact the market.  FTX Will Go Bankrupt In a Twitter thread on Wednesday, Hayes asserted that there is no player large enough to buy out FTX, if Binance’s CEO – the richest man in crypto – was unwilling...

The past few days were unnerving as the crypto industry watched the fall of FTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. With FTX now insolvent, some of the biggest and oldest players in the space have started expressing disappointment at the company’s CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), popularly known as crypto’s white knight. Jesse Powell Blasts SBF One such person is Jesse Powell, co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange Kraken, who has taken to Twitter to blast SBF,...

Struggling crypto exchange FTX appears to be processing withdrawals again, according to publicly available blockchain data.  Data from Etherscan – an explorer for analyzing transactions on the Ethereum blockchain – shows that FTX’s public wallet began executing a swath of outbound transactions beginning at 03:39:11 PM UTC on Thursday.  This follows an over 48-hour period during which FTX was only taking in deposits. FTX initially admitted to its liquidity troubles shortly...

FTX had reportedly reached out to several other large exchanges, including Coinbase and OKX, but was turned down. Its finances were one of the factors after the reviewal of which, Binance backed out of a planned takeover. While Binance may have averted more scrutiny from regulators in Europe and the United States but the botched deal further aggravated the meltdown in the prices of cryptocurrencies. The Billionairs’ Feud Binance and FTX have been at loggerheads long before...

Tether has become the latest industry company to get involved with the ongoing saga revolving around FTX by freezing over 46 million USDT. The company said it had to comply with law enforcement agencies. All eyes in the crypto industry have been set on FTX for the past several days, ever since Binance decided to sell its entire FTT stash following some discrepancies with Alameda Research’s balance sheet. The turbulence in the following days included Binance agreeing to...

Sam Bankman-Fried issued an official apology following the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange. He talked about making customers whole and finding a solution that would be best for all parties involved. FTX’s CEO took it to Twitter earlier on November 10 to shine some light on the current situation with his distressed crypto exchange. At first, he apologized for the entire fiasco, and said he should have done better as he had made at least two big mistakes, including...

Amid the major crypto exchange FTX’s liquidity crisis, two companies closely tied to it – including Alameda Research and  FTX Ventures – appear to be inaccessible on their websites.  Alameda‘s site has gone private, while FTX Ventures’ site appears to be down entirely. Both have been inaccessible since Tuesday. Alameda is a trading desk launched by Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX. The firm was found to have large exposure to FTT on its balance sheet according to a CoinDesk...

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has backed out of its agreement to purchase FTX just one day after signing an agreement to rescue the company on Tuesday. Binance said its decision was made in light of a review of FTX’s handling of customer deposits, alongside alleged US agency investigations against the firm.  The announcement, made on Wednesday, claimed that FTX’s financial position was beyond help – even from Binance.  “In the beginning, our hope was to be...