Shadow-Banking

Voyager Digital Files Bankruptcy After Three Arrows Capital Collapse, Exposing Crypto Lending Contagion and Regulatory Failure

| Importance: 8/10

Voyager Digital Holdings and affiliates file Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York after the collapse of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), which triggered a domino effect through the interconnected and unregulated crypto lending market. Voyager, like Celsius, …

Voyager Digital Three Arrows Capital Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) BlockFi Celsius Network +2 more crypto-fraud regulatory-void bankruptcy systemic-risk shadow-banking +3 more
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Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation

| Importance: 10/10

President Bill Clinton signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) into law on his last day before Christmas recess, completing the deregulation of the derivatives market that Brooksley Born had warned against two years earlier. The legislation, inserted into a 10,000-page authorization …

Bill Clinton Lawrence Summers Phil Gramm Alan Greenspan Wall Street derivatives dealers derivatives deregulation cfma financial-crisis credit-default-swaps +1 more
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President's Working Group Recommends Exempting $80 Trillion Derivatives Market from Regulation

| Importance: 9/10

The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets issues a unanimous report recommending that over-the-counter derivatives be explicitly exempted from federal regulation, directly repudiating CFTC Chair Brooksley Born’s 1998 warnings about systemic risk. The report is signed by Treasury …

Lawrence Summers Robert Rubin Alan Greenspan Arthur Levitt Bill Rainer +1 more derivatives deregulation cfma financial-crisis regulatory-capture +2 more
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