Get the latest tech news

FTX Ordered To Pay $12.7 Billion To Customers, US CFTC Says


FTX has been ordered to pay $12.7 billion in relief to its customers, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In a statement, CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam said the crypto exchange drew customers in with "an illusion that it was a safe and secure place to access crypto markets," ...

FTX has been ordered to pay $12.7 billion in relief to its customers, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The CFTC agreement resolves a potential roadblock to that repayment, ensuring that the government's lawsuit against FTX will not reduce the funds available to its customers. [...] FTX is currently soliciting votes on its bankruptcy proposal but faces opposition from some customers who feel short-changed by the decision to repay them based on much-lower cryptocurrency prices from November 2022.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Slashdot

Read more on:

Photo of FTX

FTX

Photo of Customers

Customers

Photo of cftc

cftc

Related news:

News photo

FTX to pay $12.7B to victims of Sam Bankman-Fried’s massive scheme | US commodities trading agency claimed its largest recovery ever for FTX victims.

News photo

Delta facing class action lawsuit over tech outage; customers seeking refunds

News photo

Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers