Bankman-Fried says he’ll testify earlier than US Home committee

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted on Sunday that he would testify earlier than the Home Monetary Companies Committee after he completed “studying and reviewing” the occasions that led to the spectacular collapse of his cryptocurrency alternate.

The US Home Monetary Companies Committee plans to carry a listening to in December to research the collapse of FTX and expects to listen to from the businesses and people concerned, together with founder and CEO Bankman-Fried.

Committee Chair Maxine Waters final week invited Bankman-Fried to take part within the panel’s listening to on Dec. 13.

“As soon as I’ve completed studying and reviewing what occurred, I’d really feel prefer it was my obligation to seem earlier than the committee and clarify,” the founder and former FTX CEO wrote in a reply to Waters.

Bankman-Fried added that he was not sure if that might occur earlier than Dec. 13.

He rejected strategies of fraud in a variety of interviews final week after his firm’s collapse surprised buyers and left collectors dealing with losses totaling billions of {dollars}.

FTX filed for chapter in November after every week by which a potential merger with rival crypto alternate Binance failed, Bankman-Fried was accused funneling buyer deposits to FTX’s affiliated buying and selling agency Alameda Analysis, and the alternate skilled withdrawals of about $6 billion in simply 72 hours.