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BlackRock, Fidelity, WisdomTree Name Jane Street, JPMorgan As Authorized Participants For Bitcoin ETFs
Friday, December 29, 2023 - 10:43pm | 672BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK), Fidelity (NYSE:FIS), and WisdomTree Inc. (NYSE:WT) have announced market maker Jane Street Capital and JPMorgan Securities (NYSE:JPM) as the “authorized participants” for their potential Bitcoin ETFs, which are currently awaiting regulatory clearance. What...
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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Bankman-Fried Was A Programming Student Of Former FTX US President, Claims He Couldn't Code Were 'Completely False, One Of His Many Lies'
Friday, November 17, 2023 - 4:01pm | 531Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on seven counts of criminal fraud in a highly publicized trial that ended in early November. A former FTX employee shared with Benzinga some insight into business at FTX and more. What Happened: Now the founder and CEO of Architect, Brett Harrison...
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Bankman-Fried's Defense Hits Back: He Is Not A Monster, Making Mistakes Is Not A Crime
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 - 6:55pm | 844At a hearing today (Wednesday), FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's defense attorney Mark Cohen countered the accusations leveled against his client, ardently arguing the government's portrayal of Bankman-Fried as a "monster" is both "wrong and unfair...
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FTX's Bankman-Fried Blames Former CTO For Erroneous Liquidations
Friday, October 27, 2023 - 1:10pm | 675Clarifying his stance on a series of allegations linked to erroneous liquidations, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried vehemently defended his decisions, saying he had asked former FTX Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Gary Wang to stop liquidations on Alameda Research's accounts...
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EXCLUSIVE: FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried On Regulation, Tokenization, Building 'A Global Liquidity Venue'
Wednesday, December 22, 2021 - 8:30am | 1316One would think that a deep passion for something as nuanced as blockchain and cryptocurrency would be requisite for success in such space. That’s not really the case, according to Sam Bankman-Fried, the 29-year-old billionaire co-founder of FTX and Alameda Research. Bankman-Fried’...