Banks raised questions in 2020 about FTX-affiliated hedge fund's wire activity, FTX says

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Certain banks working with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's trading firm Alameda Research raised questions about the firm's wire activity as early as 2020, according to a report released by FTX on Monday. Some banks began rejecting wires to or from Alameda the same year that the cryptocurrency exchange scra

Certain banks working with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's trading firm Alameda Research raised questions about the firm's wire activity as early as 2020, according to a report released by FTX on Monday.

Federal prosecutors have alleged that Bankman-Fried stole billions of dollars in customer funds to plug losses at Alameda. FTX, which filed for bankruptcy in November after Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO, has estimated that approximately US$8.7 billion in customer assets were misappropriated from the exchange.

In 2020, certain banks working with Alameda pressed the firm on its wire transfers, according to the report.

 

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