Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images A bitcoin exchange that collapsed 10 years ago after being hacked is set to return billions of dollars’ worth of the token to users — and it has investors worried. In a few days, bankrupt Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox will begin paying back thousands of users … Read more
Users of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox have been trying to get their money back for a decade. From the beginning of July, the company will begin paying users back their funds. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mt. Gox, the Japanese bitcoin exchange that collapsed into bankruptcy a decade ago after a major … Read more
Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of blockchain firm ConsenSys. Riccardo Savi | Getty Images for Concordia Summit Crypto firm Consensys has been added to the SEC’s list of targets, as the regulator continues its industrywide crackdown. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday sued Consensys in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, over … Read more
Whinstone CEO Chad Harris takes CNBC on a tour of the largest bitcoin mine in North America. Crypto companies are suddenly at the center of deal-making. The catalyst is artificial intelligence. Bitcoin mining companies have expansive data centers, with access to fiber lines and large amounts of power across the U.S. They’re exactly the types … Read more
Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Morgan Stanley is pushing further into its adoption of artificial intelligence with a new assistant that is expected to take over thousands of hours of labor for the bank’s financial advisors. The assistant, called Debrief, keeps detailed logs of advisors’ meetings and automatically creates draft emails and summaries … Read more
Tsingha25 | Istock | Getty Images Ledgers of the failed fintech middleman Synapse show that nearly all the deposits held for customers of the banking app Yotta went missing weeks ago, according to one of the lenders involved. A network of eight banks held $109 million in deposits for Yotta customers as of April 11, … Read more
Zilch CEO Phil Belamant. Zilch LONDON — British fintech firm Zilch said Wednesday it’s raised $125 million in debt financing from German banking giant Deutsche Bank in a deal that will help the company triple sales in the next couple of years and move closer toward an initial public offering. The company, which offers shoppers … Read more
South Korean authorities are seeking the arrest of Do Kwon, co-founder and chief executive officer of Terraform Labs. His company is behind the now-collapsed terraUSD and luna cryptocurrencies. South Korean prosecutors are now seeking to freeze bitcoin linked to Kwon. Woohae Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Months before Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX fraud … Read more
Miragec | Moment | Getty Images A startup that uses technology to stop employees from abusing corporate expenses just raised 8 million euros ($8.6 million) of funding from investors, defying a slump in investment for the financial technology industry. CleverCards, a Dublin-based firm, uses a digital platform linked to configurable expense cards to give companies … Read more
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago on June 5, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Now that his criminal trial in New York has wrapped up, the former president has scheduled a number of fundraising events around the country to aid his presidential bid. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images) … Read more
