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According to court records, former FTX executives Nishad Singh and Gary Wang are scheduled to be sentenced later this year for their roles in FTX’s downfall. According to a July 9 transcript, Judge Lewis Kaplan is scheduled to sentence FTX’s former engineering chief, Shin, on October 30 at 3:30 PM ET. Sentencing for FTX’s former technical chief, Wang, is scheduled for November 20 at 3:30 PM ET. Singh and Wang were close friends and colleagues of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who testified against him late last year in his criminal trial after being convicted on seven fraud-related charges and is…

High living costs mean many young people turn to their parents as a safety net.Nearly half, or 46%, of Gen Zers aged 18 to 27 rely on financial help from their families, according to a new report from Bank of America.Additionally, 52% said they don’t earn enough to live the life they want, and that everyday expenses are the biggest obstacle to financial success.”The rising cost of living is definitely impacting Gen Z,” said Holly O’Neill, president of retail banking at Bank of America.The financial institution conducted the poll of more than 1,000 Gen Z adults in April and May.Why…

MUMBAI: Moody’s Ratings has affirmed private sector lender YES Bank’s long-term foreign and local currency ratings at Ba3 and changed its outlook to positive from stable.The outlook change reflects Moody’s expectation that gradual improvement in YES Bank’s deposit and loan base will lead to improved core profitability for the bank over the next 12 to 18 months.The positive outlook takes into account improvements in banks’ asset quality and capital structure over the past two to three years, somewhat offset by weakness in banks’ core profitability due to higher funding costs and the burden of meeting priority sector lending (PSL) targets.”We…

Bitcoin rose to above $59,000 in early European time, continuing its recovery from below $54,000 earlier in the week. 10x Research founder Marcus Thielen said the rally could see Bitcoin recapture $60,000, but it likely won’t last. “The $55,000 to $56,000 range forms a base from a technical analysis perspective. However, given the medium-term technical damage, we expect only a short-term tactical bullish countertrend upside,” Thielen wrote on Tuesday. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading just under $58,500, up 1.7% in the past 24 hours. The overall digital asset market, as measured by the CoinDesk 20 Index, was…

There has been an increase in interest in certain debt instruments such as private credit by high net worth individuals (HNIs) as the wealthy turn to such instruments on the back of rising equity valuations and the removal of tax benefits for bond mutual funds.”There is certainly interest in fixed income from the high net worth segment, with many family offices, corporate treasuries, ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals starting to look at bonds as a safe haven option,” said Deepak Sood, head of fixed income at Alpha Alternatives. “There is some profit taking in equities and they…

Anyone out shopping for a house today will know that there are still very few homes for sale.The housing market is just starting to emerge from some of the most depressed years in history. Inventory of both new and existing homes is finally increasing, but there’s suddenly something strange in the numbers: There seems to be too much new home supply.But that figure is misleading due to unprecedented trends in today’s housing market — trends that can be traced back two decades to another unprecedented period in the housing market: the subprime mortgage boom.All of this is why home prices,…

Investors increased their bond risk appetite in June, chasing the prospect of higher yields, as Federal Reserve policy remains uncertain, according to data from State Street. Bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw nearly $25 billion in inflows last month, with investors increasing their exposure to longer-term Treasuries by more than $6 billion, the asset manager said. But investors were also comfortable with the increased credit risk, funneling more than $1.6 billion into ETFs backed by bank loans and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), State Street said. “These funds have seen inflows for 13 consecutive months, bringing in more than $18 billion during…

A look at companies garnering attention in midday trading: NVIDIA — Shares of the artificial intelligence darling rose about 2.5% after KeyBanc raised its target price to $180, implying a roughly 40% increase from Monday’s closing price. The company said demand for NVIDIA’s H100 chips “remains robust” despite Blackwell’s looming launch later this year. Helen of Troy — Shares of the home goods company plunged nearly 28%, hitting a new 52-week low during trading. The company reported lower-than-expected first-quarter fiscal 2025 earnings of 99 cents a share excluding items before the close. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected earnings of…

You can see the same type of arbitrage in AMMs, although in a slightly different form, of course. Let’s say you heard about SHIB early on and want to buy it before it’s available on a centralized exchange. It’s not on an exchange, so you call up your Ethereum-based AMM (SHIB was created as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum) and click the button to buy SHIB tokens. When you place that order, it gets thrown into a large batch of proposed Ethereum transactions. Some of these transactions might be people using USDC to buy stuff online, but many of them…

Forbright Bank’s compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act needs improvement. Updated Rating Issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The downgrade is related to a lending relationship the Chevy Chase, Maryland-based climate-focused bank had with a third party, a source familiar with the rating told Banking Dive. That relationship ended in April 2022, and the loan in question accounted for less than 0.05% of the bank’s assets, the source said. An unnamed third-party credit-building fintech charged users fees, sparking concerns from the FDIC’s CRA. Forbright does not charge these fees, nor does it make any money from them, and is…