Alameda Research

Mar
17

Exchange Invest 2612: FTX GUBU Loans

“SBF is arguing that he is entitled to $5 million Directors and Officers Insurance from FTX.”
6 min read
Mar
06

Exchange Invest 2602: $8.9 bln FTX Shortfall

So after the property exposés, the billion dollar loans, the PJs on demand, the Nassau executive car fleet, at least one incredible Daiquiri bill and of course a serious operation aimed at buying the US government…
14 min read
Mar
01

Exchange Invest 2598: CC-1 Charged

Euronext has an interesting MTF punt via MTS in IRS while the group’s tentative bid for AllFunds has already been withdrawn…
10 min read
Feb
09

Exchange Invest 2581: Euroclear’s Record Year

SBF did however have a setback with no relaxation of his bail contract provisions: U.S. Judge Rejects Bail Proposal For FTX Founder Bankman-Fried (Reuters)
8 min read
Feb
01

Exchange Invest 2574: Collateral Confusion

Turns out the SBF hail Mary format bail bond involves leasehold land…
9 min read
Jan
19

Exchange Invest 2563: God Mode

We’re discussing God mode in Bitcarnage today while Nasdaq Private Markets buy a data channel and Schwab report results as ICE highlights ESG product certification increases.
8 min read
Jan
09

Exchange Invest 2554: BaFin Biffs DB1

Naughty boy step for EUREX and Clearstream as BaFin shows its new post Wirecard credo…
10 min read
Jan
05

Exchange Invest 2551: Sun Rising For LCH Japan?

Former FTX GC Daniel.Friedberg has provided evidence. The somewhat colourful Mr Friedberg was, as you may recall amongst the legal team stuck in the door departing hastily when SBF made his infamous internal admission of find transfer to Alameda…
9 min read
Dec
22

Exchange Invest 2539: SBF’s Home!

SBF has migrated in the opposite direction to the lovely summer birds and ended Wednesday under SDNY jurisdiction and probably a long stay in a US fleapit remand prison - worse than the relatively cushy reality of his Bahamas detention it will likely transpire.
14 min read
Dec
16

Exchange Invest 2534: SEC Attacks PFOF

As the tabloids make mischief suggesting SBF’s Mom has been ringing the jail to get strict vegan food sent to Inmate 14372, I had some splendid correspondence from commodity expert Ann Berg who noted the origins of Effective Altruism in Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarian movement.
9 min read
Dec
14

Exchange Invest 2532: Bad Day for Inmate 14372

Arresting SBF on the eve of his testimony to Maxine Waters’ Committee was either a work of genius (ridding SBF of a major stage) or dumb (ridding SBF of a chance to incriminate himself under oath) or a total conspiracy to cover up his crimes...
14 min read
Dec
12

Exchange Invest 2530: Coin Unfriends Tether

SBF appears to be maintaining his hail Mary pass where his sheer winning magnetism dazzles everybody watching that he isn’t an incompetent crook, La Ellison may be about to extract sufficiently brutal revenge on her ex-paramour cum business partner...
15 min read
Dec
05

Exchange Invest 2524: ASX SBF Struggle With Sorry

SBF: “To the extent that there’s a tactical piece of it, I think it’s basically that things have gotten to the point where, frankly, there were a lot of conspiracy theories floating around that had no validity and to be clear, at its core, I f***ed up.
13 min read
Dec
02

Exchange Invest 2522: A Glimpse of Sanity?

SBF is a total charlatan and who knows if he keeps cr…ing on as is his wont, even his politically backed former friends may yet move to disown him as the message to Main Street America...
15 min read
Nov
21

Exchange Invest 2512: Bahamas Flex On FTX

Just as FTX weren’t doing their paperwork and introduced an emoji GUI to expenses payment while it seems carelessly forgetting to actually introduce stuff like accounting, or governance…
18 min read