The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has reached a $33 million settlement regarding its contentious European expansion effort. This resolution comes after FTX sought to recover $323 million spent on acquiring a European startup, a venture that has now concluded with the company being sold back to its original founders for $32.7 million. The heart of this dispute lay in FTX's 2021 acquisition of Digital Assets DA AG, a Zurich-based company that was rebranded as FTX Europe.
We brought an initial review of the XBPrime broker operated by the offshore entity MarketFinancials Ltd, a securities dealer registered by the FSA Seychelles. The payment agent is Cyprus-registered M&N Equity Research Ltd. The offshore entity is said to be owned by Cyprus-registered Proverial Ltd, where Israeli Asher Afriat is registered as a director. He is also a director of the CySEC-regulated FTX (EU) Ltd (formerly K-DNA Financial Services Ltd), which operated as FTX EU. CySEC recently suspended the license of FTX Europe (report here).
A few days ago, Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States after billions in liquidity disappeared. Now FTX people are disappearing all over the world. In March 2022, FTX acquired the CySEC-regulated Investment Firm (CIF) K-DNA Financial Services Ltd to establish FTX Europe. Martha Lambrianou has served as CEO of the CySEC-regulated entity since 2017. She became the CEO of FTX Europe (see report). She deleted her LinkedIn profile and vanished.