2/19/2025 7:31:10 PM Some crypto traders caught in FTX collapse are about to get paid back By Sarah Wolter Initial payouts starting this week will go to smaller customers with claims of less than $50,000. Ultimately, the bankruptcy estate plans...
7/18/2024 1:03:58 PM FTX and CFTC agree to $12.7b settlement following months of negotiations By Sarah Wolter The two have been negotiating over the past few months, according to a court document filed on July 12 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for...
6/25/2024 3:10:35 PM Hedge funds made a killing on FTX—then it got complicated By Sarah Wolter Since FTX’s 2022 implosion, hedge funds had scooped up the rights to customers’ frozen accounts for pennies on the dollar, with five...
5/8/2024 3:18:46 PM FTX has billions more than needed to pay bankruptcy victims By Sarah Wolter Lower-ranking creditors typically receive just pennies on the dollar for their holdings, but FTX benefitted from a strong rally in...
11/6/2023 3:17:24 PM Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty by jury in landmark crypto trial By FinTech Collective Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven counts by a panel of 12 jurors last Thursday. FTX co-founder Gary Wang,...
10/18/2023 2:13:34 PM FTX plans to return 90% of customer funds, but there's a catch By Sarah Wolter The debtors propose dividing missing customer assets into three pools based on circumstances at the start of the Chapter 11 cases: Assets...
10/13/2023 5:24:14 PM New clues suggest stolen FTX funds went to Russia-linked money launderers By Sarah Wolter Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually...
10/6/2023 1:21:26 PM FTX employees found Alameda’s secret backdoor months before collapse By Sarah Wolter Prosecutors say Bankman-Fried stole funds from FTX customers, in part, by secretly ordering the programming of “special features” that...
9/20/2023 2:20:55 PM FTX sues Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents to recover ‘misappropriated funds’ By Sarah Wolter Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, both Stanford Law School professors, “exploited their access and influence within the FTX enterprise to...
9/14/2023 3:19:10 PM Judge allows bankrupt FTX to sell its crypto holdings, including BTC and SOL By Sarah Wolter In a court hearing, Judge John Dorsey said that he approved the motion and overruled two objections that were made opposing the plan....
7/20/2023 4:58:41 PM Inside the private writings of Caroline Ellison, star witness in the FTX case By Sarah Wolter Ms. Ellison, a top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s business empire, recorded her thoughts on private Google documents that offer new...
5/23/2023 9:40:16 PM Emails, chat logs, code and a notebook: the mountain of FTX evidence By Sarah Wolter Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried have accumulated more than 6m pages of documents and other records, which include crypto...
4/20/2023 6:50:31 PM Taylor Swift avoided $100m FTX debacle by asking one simple question By Sarah Wolter When the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX approached her about a $100m sponsorship deal in 2021, the pop star asked them, “Can you tell...
4/13/2023 1:49:47 PM FTX is considering using creditor money to restart crypto exchange By Sarah Wolter The company is still in the early stages of deciding whether to bring back the exchange, which allowed customers to trade digital assets...
4/11/2023 1:31:15 PM FTX failure rooted in ‘hubris,’ ‘greed,’ debtors report says By Sarah Wolter Failed crypto exchange FTX Trading lacked fundamental financial and accounting controls, stifled dissent within the company and joked...
3/29/2023 1:05:19 PM FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials By Sarah Wolter The indictment, unsealed Tuesday, is the third Mr. Bankman-Fried has faced since the collapse of the crypto exchange. It alleges that in...