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Bahamas

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$425 million of FTX assets were held by the Bahamas or deemed illiquid, making the jurisdiction central to the exchange’s collapse and asset-control disputes.

Who they are

The Bahamas appears in technology and crypto coverage chiefly as the jurisdiction surrounding FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried: the location of the company’s operations, executives and properties, and a regulatory counterpart in the ensuing bankruptcy and criminal cases. It also figures independently through the Sand Dollar central-bank digital currency and Bahamas-based banking links to crypto firms.

The recent arc

Coverage peaked in 2022Q4 as FTX unraveled. The central stories concerned the Securities Commission of The Bahamas repudiating FTX’s claim that it had ordered withdrawals reopened for local customers, the dispute between FTX’s new management and Bahamian regulators over control of assets, and the arrest and subsequent U.S. extradition of Bankman-Fried. Reporting also scrutinized the group’s local footprint, including properties bought by FTX, its executives and Bankman-Fried’s parents.

The story then shifted from the immediate collapse to cross-border legal boundaries and recovery. A 2023 DOJ filing said a campaign-finance charge was not included in the extradition document with the Bahamas, while FTX’s estate disclosed assets including Bahamas properties. More recent items connect Bahamas-based Deltec Bank to alleged Alameda Research credit for Tether purchases and report Tether’s use of Bahamas-based Britannia Bank & Trust, showing that the jurisdiction remains present in crypto-finance reporting beyond the FTX emergency.

The tension

The recurring tension is jurisdictional control: Bahamian regulators and authorities became important actors in a U.S.-led FTX bankruptcy and prosecution, while FTX Trading sought the return of digital assets held in the Bahamas. That conflict was sharpened by the regulator’s denial that it ordered local withdrawals and by extradition terms affecting the U.S. case against Bankman-Fried. Alongside it sits a broader credibility question for Bahamas-linked crypto banking, given reporting tying Deltec and Britannia to Alameda or Tether.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, the Bahamas’ relevance in crypto coverage will be less about hosting a high-profile exchange and more about how offshore regulators, local banks and asset custody intersect with U.S. enforcement and bankruptcy recovery. The Sand Dollar gives the country a separate digital-currency policy role, but its reported sluggish adoption and the continuing FTX-related disputes suggest that institutional execution and cross-border coordination, rather than launch status alone, will determine the enduring significance.

Bahamas has appeared in 58 articles since 2020-06. Coverage peaked in 2022Q4 with 32 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, Alameda, SBF.

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Coverage Timeline

2023-09-11
CoinDesk 3 related

Filing: FTX's estate has now marshalled ~$7B in assets, including $1.5B in cash, $1.16B in solana, $560M in bitcoin, and $200M in properties in the Bahamas

The company says it paid billions to executives including founder Sam Bankman-Fried before filing for bankruptcy last year.  —  Register Now

2023-09-07
New York Magazine 4 related

An excerpt from the book Number Go Up details an April 2022 FTX conference in the Bahamas, where writer Michael Lewis lavished Sam Bankman-Fried with praise

Three years ago, nobody knew who you were.  And now you're sitting on the cover of magazines.  And you're a gazillionaire.

2023-01-16
Bloomberg 2 related

Two years after the Bahamas launched the world's first CBDC, the Sand Dollar's adoption has been sluggish, as FTX's demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism

2023-01-15
Bloomberg 1 related

Two years after the Bahamas launched the world's first CBDC, the Sand Dollar's adoption has been sluggish as FTX's demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism

Before FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the Bahamas synonymous with the crypto crash, the country was known as a pioneer of digital fiat.

2023-01-11
CoinDesk 11 related

Bankruptcy hearing: FTX has recovered $5B+ so far, excluding $425M held by the Bahamas or “illiquid cryptocurrency tokens”; FTX's Alameda credit line was $65B

The announcement substantially raises the total FTX has recovered since filing for bankruptcy last year but it's still short of what customers are owed in total.

2022-12-31
Reuters 21 related

The Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B temporarily and plans to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them

The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said on Thursday that it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5 billion based on market pricing …

2022-12-30
Reuters 19 related

Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B on a temporary basis and plans to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them

The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said on Thursday that it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5 billion based on market pricing …

2022-12-20
CoinDesk 1 related

A look at Modulo Capital, a mysterious multi-strategy hedge fund founded in 2022 and based in Albany in The Bahamas, which received $400M from Alameda Research

Tracy Wang / CoinDesk : Tweets: @smtuffy , @hsakatrades , @founderannie , @fxmacro , @mattwalshinbos , @0x_tracy , @jcoviedo6 , @hsakatrades , and @smtuffy Tweets: Sean Tuffy / @smtuffy : SBF launder...

2022-11-30
Wall Street Journal 3 related

Sources detail Alameda's early years, starting in fall 2017, as SBF shrugged off concerns about risky investments, leading several employees to quit in 2018

‘We ended up not really knowing how much money we even had,’ one former employee says  —  Why FTX Picked the Bahamas, and What Happens Now to the Crypto Hub

Financial Times 5 related

Interviews detail FTX and SBF's lavish spending, aided by minimal internal controls, including $300M+ on Bahamas real estate and chartering Amazon deliveries

When crypto exchange FTX moved its headquarters to the Bahamas from Hong Kong last year, employees discovered that Amazon did not deliver to the island.

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TEXXR tracks 37 tech news articles mentioning Bahamas, dating back to October 2020. The biggest stories include The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it didn't order FTX to reopen withdrawals... and The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it didn't order FTX to reopen withdrawals.... Frequently covered alongside FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF, Tether, and Alameda Research.

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