SILVERGATE Capital plans to wind down operations and liquidate its bank after the crypto industry’s meltdown sapped the company’s financial strength. The shares plunged more than 50 per cent.
FRENCH market regulator AMF said Axa Investment Managers had registered as a crypto service provider in the country, joining a list of several financial firms getting regulatory approvals to avoid service disruption in France.
VOYAGER Digital won court approval to sell itself to Binance.US, the US arm of the world’s biggest crypto exchange, after four days of contentious bankruptcy hearings in which state and federal regulators joined a handful of investors in opposing the approximately US$1 billion deal.
THE largest-ever buyout financing arranged by private credit firms would allow healthcare technology company Cotiviti to pay a whopping 50 per cent of the interest on a US$5.5 billion loan with additional debt.
CHINA’S yuan weakened to a more than two-month low against the dollar in early trade on Wednesday, approaching the threshold of 7 per dollar, as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish rhetoric on US interest rates lifted greenback broadly.
US regulators have been sent to the headquarters of Silvergate Capital, as the troubled crypto-friendly bank looks for a way to stay in business.
THE head of Australia’s central bank on Wednesday said it was closer to pausing its aggressive cycle of rate increases as policy was now in restrictive territory and there were signs the economy was responding.
PAYPAL Holdings said chief financial officer (CFO) Blake Jorgensen will step down following a leave of absence for health reasons, amid a shuffle of upper management at the online-payments platform.
UOB Private Bank is going from strength to strength with an experienced management team in place to propel greater growth and expansion in Singapore and the region.
FOR investors living on the digital edge, Bitcoin is starting to look a little old-fashioned.











