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FTX Brings in Financial Experts

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A report from the Wall Street Journal (7 December) claims that FTX has formed a team of financial experts to trace billions of dollars in “missing” customer funds from the company.

The new management at FTX is looking to get to the bottom of the entire crisis, and they’re not aiming for a slow process. The team has outsourced the matter to a group of financial forensic experts to find out how and where the funds could have gone missing.

To be specific, AlixPartners, a firm that specialises in financial matters, has been trusted with this mountain of a task. This advisory committee will be led by Matt Jacques, formerly with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a chief accountant.

FTX will try to recover as many of the missing assets as possible with the help of this newly formed committee. Furthermore, the crypto company will need further assistance to rebuild its financial infrastructure from the ground up.

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Summary of the FTX crash

If you're even the slightest bit involved in the crypto industry, you've probably heard the name FTX pop up a few times over the last couple of months - and not in a good light. The crypto company has been under fire for letting almost $450 million of customer funds disappear.

The whole debacle and the story of "who’s to blame" is a mystery, even after months of speculation.

It's not the first time the company's CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been alleged to have mismanaged customer funds. In an interview with Vox, Bankman-Fried claimed to have passed customer funds through Alameda Research, FTX’s sister company. He did admit his lack of control over his company’s operations, as he tweeted, "I'm sorry. I f--d up" after the fiasco broke.

The company filed for bankruptcy in November. It's difficult to see them making a comeback, largely due to two major factors:

• The global negative PR that the company has been a victim of over the period of several months.

• A low probability of recovering the lost funds.

FTX’s new management will need a miracle to even get crumbs from this entire mess.

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Author: Osama Shahid

Osama Shahid is an experienced writer and editor, mainly writing about gaming and crypto. In his free time, he loves to game, playing FIFA 23 and Rocket League.

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