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FTX Latest: Crypto Fears Contagion as Billions Owed to Creditors

(Bloomberg) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt FTX crypto exchange owes its 50 top unsecured creditors a total of $3.1 billion. FTX Trading Ltd. and about 100 affiliated companies are starting a strategic review of global assets. Investors continue to pull funds from digital-asset exchanges despite the latter’s efforts to reassure markets about their stability. Crypto lender […]

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FTX Mayhem Fails to Scare Futures Exchanges Away From Crypto

(Bloomberg) — Even as some of Wall Street’s old guard has an “I-told-you-so” moment after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, futures exchanges aren’t giving up on crypto. CME Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy, who has been one of Bankman-Fried’s fiercest critics, said he won’t stop crypto-futures trading just because of “one bad […]

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Investor Studied Crypto For Years, Then Missed FTX’s Red Flags

(Bloomberg) — When Sam Bankman-Fried was all of 25 years old, he pitched his nascent crypto investment business to Silicon Valley investors — only for them to laugh at him and his acolytes over their lack of experience and knowledge of crypto. “None of us has run a company before and we’d like $100 million […]

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Beyond the Crypto Crash, a Big Squeeze Jolts Stock Markets Anew

(Bloomberg) — Being glued to crypto news this week meant missing adventures in regular markets that while lacking the same high drama, made up for it in terms of money at stake. In case you missed it, stock and bond traders spent the last five days still caught in the thrall of an event that […]

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Short Sellers Jump on Crypto Stocks Despite Steep Cost of Wagers

(Bloomberg) — Short sellers have pounced on crypto-focused equities as the digital-assets space crumbles in the wake of FTX’s public implosion. They’re paying a steep price to place those wagers. Crypto stocks are nearly three times more shorted than the average share, even as short sellers are paying almost eleven times as much in financing […]

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FTX’s Bankman-Fried Received $1 Billion Loan From Alameda

(Bloomberg) — FTX co-founder Samuel Bankman-Fried, one of his related companies, and two other top executives at the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange received massive loans from affiliated trading arm, Alameda Research, according to a bankruptcy court filing Thursday. Alameda’s receivables included $4.1 billion in combined loans to “related parties,” according to a footnote in a document […]

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FTX Trading’s Liabilities Dwarfed Liquid Assets, FT Says

(Bloomberg) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Trading exchange held $900 million in liquid assets against $9 billion of liabilities the day before Friday’s bankruptcy filing, the Financial Times reported Saturday, citing investment materials the newspaper had seen. Most of the recorded assets are either illiquid venture capital investments or crypto tokens that are not widely traded, […]

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Sam Bankman-Fried Fooled the Crypto World and Maybe Even Himself

(Bloomberg) — Before the world began to grasp the truth about Sam Bankman-Fried — before the panic, the investigations and, at last, the brutal collapse — an inkling of doom began to spread through his convoluted crypto empire. All across FTX, the exchange that had transformed his mere initials into a symbol of a new […]

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Bankman-Fried Resigns From FTX, Puts Empire in Bankruptcy

(Bloomberg) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, capping a rapid downfall for his companies. Entities tied to FTX.com, FTX US and trading firm Alameda Research Ltd. were part of the filings, according to a Twitter statement Friday. Chapter 11 bankruptcy lets a company continue operating while it works out […]

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The Era of Inflation Has Ended — for Asset Prices on Wall Street

(Bloomberg) — As the Federal Reserve’s intensifying fight against inflation sinks every asset on Wall Street, investors are asking: Why buy now when things could get cheaper still? What started as a mild stock selloff this month has morphed into a deepening interest rate-spurred rout that’s wiped out virtually all of the summer gains in […]

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Bitcoin Hints at a Bottom, But It May Be Different This Time

(Bloomberg) — It’s a perennial exercise whenever an asset is mired in a prolonged and deep drawdown: People look at the charts, they go over this or that indicator and they get their checklists out to try to figure out when it might find a floor. For Bitcoin, there’s plenty of such action happening right […]

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Crypto Lender Vauld Freezes Withdrawals, Eyes Restructuring

(Bloomberg) –Vauld, a crypto lender backed by Coinbase Inc., said it froze withdrawals and hired advisers to explore a potential restructuring, joining rivals from Celsius Network to Babel Finance in resorting to last-ditch measures to survive the market rout. The Singapore-based company hired Kroll as financial adviser and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Rajah & Tann […]

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Crypto’s Brutal Week Ends With a Trading Halt and a Bailout

(Bloomberg) — The meltdown in cryptocurrency markets deepened this week, as major players contended with liquidations, withdrawal freezes, trading halts — and, at least in one case, a bailout. Crypto broker Voyager Digital Ltd. on Friday announced a suspension of trading, deposits and withdrawals, while BlockFi, a major digital-asset lender, won the backing of exchange […]

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JPMorgan Says Crypto’s Deleveraging Cycle Won’t Last Much Longer

(Bloomberg) — The current phase of deleveraging in cryptocurrencies is at an advanced state and may not last much longer, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Multiple crypto company failures shouldn’t be surprising given huge price declines among tokens, and entities that used higher leverage in the past are the most vulnerable, strategists including Nikolaos […]

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‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Roger Ver Spars With Crypto Exchange CoinFlex Over Margin Call

(Bloomberg) — A public dispute between a longtime crypto investor and a digital-asset exchange is the latest in a series of mini-crises that have rocked crypto markets in recent weeks. CoinFlex, a crypto exchange, on Tuesday named Roger Ver as the counterparty who failed to pay $47 million of stablecoin in a margin call. CoinFlex […]

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