December 02, 2022
Rising interest rates forced a reverse mortgage lender into Chapter 11, cryptocurrency platform BlockFi succumbed to the downfall of exchange FTX Trading, and FTX itself faced calls for an examination of its collapse. This is the week in bankruptcy.
December 01, 2022
A bankruptcy watchdog for the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to appoint a special examiner to sift through the wreckage of FTX Trading Ltd., saying an independent investigation is needed to determine what led to the cryptocurrency exchange's "free fall" into bankruptcy.
November 23, 2022
Miami-Dade County, Florida, has asked a Delaware bankruptcy court for permission to end its naming rights deal with beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange FTX and remove the name from the downtown arena where the Miami Heat play.
November 22, 2022
Appearing for the first time in Delaware bankruptcy court 11 days after commencing Chapter 11 cases, cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. said it is aiming to implement robust internal controls and to straighten out the mess of its financial records.
November 21, 2022
As bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. prepares to make its first appearance in a Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday, the company filed a consolidated list of creditors that shows its 10 largest claimants are customers owed a combined $1.4 billion.
November 18, 2022
The "internal controls wasteland" that was FTX may prove to be the biggest corporate governance failure of all time, legal experts told Law360, but they pondered the role regulation could have played in containing the collapse.
November 17, 2022
FTX's new CEO John R. Ray III, who shepherded Enron after its spectacular collapse, said in a court filing Thursday that the crypto exchange's downfall stemmed from an unprecedented "failure of corporate controls," the likes of which he had never seen before in his career.
November 15, 2022
Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. said in Delaware court filings that it will engage with American and international regulators in the wake of its collapse and bankruptcy filing, with founder Sam Bankman-Fried tweeting Tuesday that he intends to meet with them face-to-face.