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November 11, 2022Crises & controversyFailures & lossesdocumented

FTX files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

FTX Trading and more than one hundred affiliates entered U.S. bankruptcy proceedings after a rapid liquidity crisis.

The collapse followed revelations about the relationship between FTX and Alameda Research and a wave of customer withdrawals. Later criminal proceedings established fraud by senior executives, but the November filing itself was the start of the restructuring process.