Amid ongoing legal proceedings, Bitfinex announces Tether loan repayment
A half-billion dollar loan has been closed out, but multiple court cases grind on In a short statement today, Bitfinex — the sister company to centralized stablecoin Tether — announced that it has repaid Tether an outstanding loan balance of $550 million. This action fully closes out a larger $750 million loan from a $900 million credit line first issued in 2018 — a credit line which has been at the center of a market manipulation lawsuit in New York and a broader lawsuit from the New York Attorney General, among other legal proceedings. “Bitfinex is happy to announce that in January it....
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