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Following the "paperless" paper trail of FTX's spectacular collapse

  • Writer: Monica VanHorn
    Monica VanHorn
  • Dec 20, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 10, 2023

December 14, 2022 - FTX's new CEO John Ray III sited a series of unprecedented compliance failures at a December Senate Banking Committee hearing on the collapse of the exchange, including account commingling as well as a lack of accurate lists of employees, independent contractors and customer bank accounts. "Even in the most failed companies, you have a fair roadmap of what happened.," said Ray. "We're dealing with literally a paperless bankruptcy in terms of how they created this company, making it very difficult to trace and track assets." For more detail, view the transcript here.


FTX Senate Banking Committee hearing

 
 
 

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