Bahamas Securities Fee revealed that the nation’s supreme court docket has authorized the appointment of Kevin Cambridge and Peter Greaves of PricewaterhouseCoopers because the provisional liquidators of the property of bankrupt crypto trade FTX, in keeping with a Nov. 14 press assertion.
The press assertion revealed that Brian Simms was appointed the court-supervised provisional liquidator on Nov. 10.
In line with the monetary regulator, it acknowledges the “magnitude, urgency, and worldwide implications” of FTX’s capitulation; as such, it needed to “swiftly” use its regulatory powers to “additional shield the pursuits of purchasers, collectors, and different stakeholders globally of FTX Digital Markets Ltd.”
The Fee additionally expressed willingness to work with different regulatory companies because the case was “multijurisdictional in nature.”
FTX has its headquarters within the Bahamas and is at the moment below investigation by native authorities. The native securities regulator denied permitting FTX to renew withdrawals within the nation and stated it has frozen the bankrupt trade’s property.
FTX says its collectors are above 1 million
In a separate Nov. 14 court docket submitting, FTX stated it may doubtlessly have greater than 1 million collectors as an alternative of the 100,000 it had beforehand acknowledged, and requested the court docket enable it to file a consolidated checklist of its high 50 collectors earlier than Nov. 28.
In the meantime, the court docket submitting revealed that new impartial administrators had been appointed for every of the primary father or mother corporations within the FTX group. The brand new administrators are:
- Joseph J. Farnan, Jr. at FTX Buying and selling Ltd., who will function lead impartial director
- Matthew A. Doheny at FTX Buying and selling Ltd.
- Mitchell I. Sonkin at West Realm Shires Inc.
- Matthew R. Rosenberg at Alameda Analysis LLC; and
- Rishi Jain at Clifton Bay Investrnents LLC
In the meantime, the Monetary Occasions reported that FTX’s chapter proceedings had stalled because it had not formally filed its first-day motions to begin proceedings.