{"id":37209,"date":"2022-12-05T15:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=37209"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:33:45","slug":"struggling-cryptocurrency-lender-genesis-owes-debtors-1-8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=37209","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Cryptocurrency Lender Genesis Owes Debtors $1.8B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"core-block\"><strong class=\"core-block\">Genesis<\/strong> owes at least $1.8 billion to its creditors, according to multiple media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\">The troubled crypto trading and lending company <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/32977a99-c1c3-4f34-9ecc-4057217bf974\" class=\"core-block\" rel=\"noopener\">owes<\/a> users of Gemini&#8217;s Earn program $900 million and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2022\/12\/04\/genesis-creditor-groups-loans-amount-to-18b-and-counting-sources\/\" class=\"core-block\" rel=\"noopener\">another $900 million <\/a>to a group of assorted debtors represented by law firm Proskauer Rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\">Another ad hoc group of Genesis creditors is being represented by the law firm Kirkland &amp; Ellis in addition to Proskauer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\"><em class=\"core-block\">See Also: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/22\/11\/29815064\/genesis-could-go-bankrupt-without-financing\" class=\"core-block\" rel=\"noopener\">Genesis Could Go Bankrupt Without Financing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\">A group of Gemini customers is represented by the law firm Latham &amp; Watkins. After suffering significant losses from FTX and earlier from Three Arrows Capital, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/22\/11\/29747859\/ftx-contagion-continues-as-genesis-crypto-lending-unit-halts-customer-withdrawals\" class=\"core-block\" rel=\"noopener\">Genesis ceased customer withdrawals last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\">The company has been attempting to raise capital and has retained investment bank Moelis &amp; Company to help it evaluate alternatives, which may include filing for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\">State securities regulators in the U.S. are apparently investigating Genesis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\">According to Barrons, Alabama is one of the states investigating whether Genesis &#8220;enticed residents to invest in crypto-related securities without making th proper registrations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\"><em class=\"core-block\">Also read:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/22\/12\/29927487\/blackrock-ceo-says-ftxs-token-caused-its-collapse-but-the-technology-is-still-cutting-edge\" class=\"core-block\" rel=\"noopener\">BlackRock CEO Says FTX&#8217;s Token Caused Its Collapse, But The Technology Is Still Cutting Edge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMieWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJlbnppbmdhLmNvbS9tYXJrZXRzL2NyeXB0b2N1cnJlbmN5LzIyLzEyLzI5OTU4Mjk1L3N0cnVnZ2xpbmctY3J5cHRvY3VycmVuY3ktbGVuZGVyLWdlbmVzaXMtb3dlcy1kZWJ0b3JzLTEtOGLSAS1odHRwczovL3d3dy5iZW56aW5nYS5jb20vYW1wL2NvbnRlbnQvMjk5NTgyOTU?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis owes at least $1.8 billion to its creditors, according to multiple media reports. The troubled crypto trading and lending company owes users of Gemini&#8217;s Earn program $900 million and another $900 million to a group of assorted debtors represented by law firm Proskauer Rose. Another ad hoc group of Genesis creditors is being represented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[36],"tags":[11899,52,12676,5821,3056,3235,1182],"class_list":["post-37209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-18b","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-debtors","tag-genesis","tag-lender","tag-owes","tag-struggling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cryptocurrency.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37211,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37209\/revisions\/37211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}