Crypto trade FTX has misplaced its Australian licence a couple of days after it collapsed and filed for chapter.
The Australian Securities and Investments Fee (ASIC), introduced on Wednesday, November sixteenth, that it had suspended the licence issued to FTX Australia, the Australian arm of the FTX trade.
In its weblog put up, the ASIC stated;
“ASIC has suspended the Australian monetary companies licence of FTX Australia Pty Ltd (AFS licence 323193) till 15 Might 2023 after it was positioned into voluntary administration on 11 November 2022. Till 19 December 2022, FTX Australia can proceed to supply restricted monetary companies that relate to the termination of present derivatives with purchasers.”
Previous to its suspension, FTX Australia’s AFS license allowed it to create a marketplace for derivatives and overseas trade contracts for Australian-based retail and institutional purchasers.
The suspension got here a couple of days after John Mouawad, Scott Langdon and Rahul Goyal of KordaMentha have been appointed as voluntary directors of FTX Australia and its subsidiary FTX Specific Pty Ltd, which operates a digital foreign money trade that isn’t regulated by ASIC.
ASIC added that it’s monitoring this case intently and talking frequently with worldwide regulators and exterior directors.
FTX at present dangers shedding its licence in Europe following the collapse of the cryptocurrency trade. Final week, Bloomberg reported that the Cyprus Securities and Change Fee (CySEC) might seize FTX’s European licence.
The licence allowed FTX to function in Europe and supply its companies to clients everywhere in the continent.
These newest developments started to unfold after FTX collapsed and filed for chapter final week. The cryptocurrency trade was reportedly utilizing clients’ funds to fund Alameda Analysis, its sister hedge fund.
The transfer was in opposition to FTX’s phrases and circumstances and sparked a sequence of occasions that noticed the as soon as mighty crypto trade crumble to its knees. The occasions that unfolded additionally noticed CEO Sam Bankman-Fried resign from his position.