Blockchain Bites: Figure Files for Banking Charter, Cred for Bankruptcy

“We just want to know that our funds are safe,” said one Cred user United States-based cryptocurrency lending service Cred filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Saturday, leaving many customers searching for solutions to get their funds. According to court documents, the legal team for Cred CEO Daniel Schatt filed bankruptcy papers for the company in the District of Delaware on Nov. 7. Cred listed its estimated assets at between $50-100 million and its estimated liabilities between $100-500 million. In an official statement, the company said it had filed for Chapter 11 in an....

A U.S. bankruptcy judge has rejected a motion to freeze the assets of beleaguered crypto lending service that was filed by its users. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey has denied an emergency motion filed by 15 customers of the embattled crypto lending firm Cred Inc. to freeze crypto assets held by the firm on exchanges amid its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.More than one dozen of Cred’s creditors filed the emergency motion on Nov. 23, seeking to compel 21 cryptocurrency exchanges to freeze assets held by Cred on their respective platforms, including five U.S.-based exchanges.During a....

German cryptocurrency-focused bank Nuri has revealed that it has filed for bankruptcy, citing the protracted crypto winter. Customers’ access to the platform’s services and their funds have not been hampered, according to the firm. Nuri Files For Insolvency The cryptocurrency bank Nuri said on Tuesday that it has filed for bankruptcy in a court in […]

In October, the lender published a cryptic letter saying that it has experienced “irregularities” in the handling of “specific” corporate funds by a “perpetrator of fraudulent activity.”

A major network of state banking regulators is renewing its attack on the OCC's moves to register non-depository institutions. A leading association of state banking regulators is trying to put the U.S. national banking regulator in its place on the issue of fintech registration.Per a Dec. 22 filing, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, or CSBS, says the impending approval of Figure Technology's bank charter a bridge too far. Figure operates blockchain-backed lending and investment services. It announced its application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a charter at....