SAM Bankman-Fried is trying to persuade a US court that he should be able to access Robinhood shares worth around US$450 million to help pay for his legal fees.
NORWAY’S US$1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund has recommended that the country should consider investing in unlisted equities in the longer term to boost returns.
CRYPTOCURRENCY conglomerate Digital Currency Group (DCG) has closed its wealth-management division, known as HQ, in the latest sign of trouble amid a deep and prolonged slump in the crypto industry.
SINGAPORE’S main crypto lobby group has pushed back on the central bank’s proposals to bar crypto firms from lending out retail customers’ digital tokens, saying such a measure is “overly restrictive.”
CHINESE banks are among a handful of lenders finalizing a deal to buy around 600 million euros (US$631 million) of the debt backing the merger of Orange and Masmovil Ibercom SA’s Spanish divisions, one of Europe’s largest leveraged finance deals.
STANDARD Chartered’s Bill Winters wanted to mark the start of 2023 “with a little kindness”, he said on LinkedIn, but instead finds himself in the middle of a fresh debate about the emerging-market lender’s future.
CHINA’S yuan is set for its longest run of gains in a month after policymakers announced a raft of new measures to support the Covid-battered economy.
THREE Arrows Capital co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies have received formal demands for information related to the downfall of their crypto hedge fund in an unorthodox forum: Twitter.
FTX’S former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with US prosecutors as they investigate the crypto firm’s collapse, a source familiar with the matter said, adding pressure on founder Sam Bankman-Fried who was arrested on criminal fraud charges last month.
NEW York’s attorney general on Thursday (Jan 5) filed a civil lawsuit accusing Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky of scheming to defraud hundreds of thousands of investors by inducing them to deposit billions of dollars in digital assets with his cryptocurrency company.













