US lawmakers renew request for answers from Silvergate on FTX: Report

Several United States senators person reportedly penned a missive requesting answers from Silvergate Capital — the genitor institution of Silvergate Bank — related to the illness of cryptocurrency speech FTX.

According to a Jan. 31 Bloomberg report, U.S. Senators including Elizabeth Warren, Roger Marshall and John Kennedy said Silvergate had not afloat answered questions successful effect to a December missive astir its alleged relation successful handling FTX idiosyncratic funds. Silvergate reportedly cited restrictions connected disclosing “confidential supervisory information” — a rationale the senators said was unacceptable.

“Both Congress and the nationalist request and merit the accusation indispensable to recognize Silvergate’s relation successful FTX’s fraudulent collapse, peculiarly fixed the information that Silvergate turned to the Federal Home Loan Bank arsenic its lender of past edifice successful 2022,” said the letter, according to Bloomberg.

Warren, Marshall, and Kennedy signed their names to a 2022 letter giving Silvergate until Dec. 19 to supply lawmakers answers connected its engagement successful the FTX debacle. However, the senators reportedly said the steadfast had near retired important accusation indispensable to find Silvergate’s relation successful FTX’s alleged fraud, including whether it mishandled transferring FTX idiosyncratic assets to Alameda.

Following the liquidity situation and bankruptcy filing of FTX successful November 2022 — and anterior to the apprehension of erstwhile CEO Sam Bankman-Fried — Warren and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse called connected the Justice Department to analyse the illness of the crypto speech and see prosecuting definite individuals. The caller missive gave Silvergate until Feb. 13 to taxable a response, including connected the company’s owed diligence practices.

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Members of Congress person been organizing for their 118th Session aft Republican lawmakers successful the House of Representatives were unable to travel to an agreement to elite the adjacent Speaker for days, delaying committee assignments and legislation. Senators and House members conducted hearings exploring the downfall of FTX successful December, with enactment suggesting astatine the clip that the probe would proceed successful 2023.