SEC comes out againstBinance.US’s $1 billion deal to buy a bankrupt crypto firm’s assets
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#695WA)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Binance.US's proposed deal to purchase the assets from the collapsed cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital is facing scrutiny from federal and state regulators, as reported earlier by CoinDesk. In a set of court filings submitted on Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York's financial regulator expressed opposition to the $1 billion deal.
Voyager Digital filed for bankruptcy last year after the now-defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital defaulted on a $670 million loan provided by Voyager. Binance.US - the US version of the Binance trading platform - later announced its plans to purchase Voyager's assets for $1 billion, stating at the time it could help free up some of the funds locked up in the...