The US House Financial Services Committee plans to hold a hearing in December to investigate the collapse of FTX and expects to hear from the companies and individuals involved, including founder and CEO Bankman-Fried.
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Committee Chair Maxine Waters last week invited Bankman-Fried to participate in the panel’s hearing on December 13.
“Once I have finished learning and reviewing what happened, I would feel like it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain,” the founder and former FTX CEO wrote in a reply to Waters.
Bankman-Fried added that he was unsure if that would happen before December 13.
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He rejected suggestions of fraud in a range of interviews last week after his company’s collapse stunned investors and left creditors facing losses totaling billions of dollars.
FTX filed for bankruptcy in November after a week in which a possible merger with rival crypto exchange Binance failed, Bankman-Fried was accused funneling customer deposits to FTX’s affiliated trading firm Alameda Research, and the exchange experienced withdrawals of about $6 billion in just 72 hours.
