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“Alvarez & Marsal have been charging Celsius $1.7 million per month,” Kuvari found, “And charging FTX $11 million a month.” Similarly to the comparison with Enron, this means A&M is charging about six times as much on a bankruptcy involving only about 50% more liabilities. On a percentage basis, A&M
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Bankman-Fried appeared starstruck by a February 2022 party at Kives’ house where fellow guests included a former Presidential candidate, actors, reality TV stars, musicians and multiple billionaires. Within weeks, Bankman-Fried had signed a document promising to invest billions in Kives’ and Baum’s companies, with little details on what FTX would
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Transforming a ‘smoldering heap of wreckage’ can cost good money, Katherine Stadler said. Original Source
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According to a new report published by blockchain analytics firm Nansen on June 14, most reputable cryptocurrency exchanges adopted user protection funds amid the collapse of FTX. Together, exchanges such as Binance, OKX and Bitget have more than $2 billion combined in nominal fiat protection funds. Meanwhile, Huobi’s insurance fund
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FTX's collapse reignites the self-custody debate with Consensus 2023 attendees in an excerpt from CryptoX’s first-ever Consensus @ Consensus Report. Source
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At the time of its bankruptcy last November, FTX may have owned as much as $500 million worth of stock in Anthropic, the creator of ChatGPT rival chatbot Claude, which was valued at $4.6 billion, having raised $750 million in recent months, according to the report. Source
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In early May, Bankman-Fried filed pretrial motions to dismiss most charges levied against him by U.S. prosecutors, with his defense arguing procedural issues, the irrelevance of some U.S. laws given FTX's non-U.S. location, and that the charges exceeded the agreed extradition terms. The motions did not seek to dismiss securities
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Bankman-Fried, who is set to go to trial this upcoming fall, faces over a dozen different charges ranging from wire, securities and commodities fraud allegations to bribery claims brought across multiple superseding indictments tied to his conduct as the former CEO of the Bahamas-based crypto exchange. FTX collapsed dramatically last
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A truly canny investor won’t be entirely focused on the content of the answers to hard questions, but also on the way a question is addressed. Whether you’re able to do it face-to-face as Swift reportedly did or by turning a sharp eye to a company’s public communications, that’s a
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Taylor Swift, a pop icon and 12-time Grammy Award winner, reportedly turned down a $100 million sponsorship offer from the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX due to concerns about unregistered securities. A number of FTX celebrity endorsers are currently facing a class action lawsuit, including Shaquille O’Neal (Shaq), Tom Brady, and
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