HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - Caught on Camera

Editorial: The FTX saga is hard to understand, but the greed behind it isn't

Back in 2001, precious few Americans could have explained what Houston-based Enron did as a company and how it got so spectacularly wealthy. But when it filed for a record-breaking bankruptcy, Americans got schooled fast about not putting their trust and money behind swaggering, fast-talking con artists. But fools and…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Dec 5, 2022

Crypto's Enron-sized scandal threatens to undermine its core reason to exist

The crypto industry was already facing a trust deficit, and this has set it back far.

Axios · Dec 3, 2022

Former FTX users say the failed crypto exchange was a 'Ponzi scheme.' Here's how Ponzis work

SBF, as Bankman-Fried was often called, says he didn’t commit fraud. But bankruptcy specialists say the findings so far are ‘pretty devastating.’

Fortune · Dec 3, 2022

FTX's downfall casts a shadow over other sports-rights deals. What's up, Crypto.com Arena?

When the Miami Heat announced in March 2021 that the team had sold naming rights for its arena to FTX, the response from sports fans was a resounding: Who?

Los Angeles Times · Nov 18, 2022

Why the FTX scandal gets compared to Enron

If FTX's blowup is anything like Enron's, that means big changes are on the horizon for the systems that enabled the crypto company's rise and fall.

Axios · Nov 18, 2022

FTX had a 'complete absence of trustworthy financial information' says new CEO

The man appointed to administer the collapsed crypto exchange in chapter 11 bankruptcy, who oversaw the clean-up after Enron's collapse, says he has never seen "such a complete failure of corporate controls".

ABC News · Nov 18, 2022

The Enron man in charge of restructuring FTX has one big takeaway from this bankruptcy: There is no paper trail

Usually in bankruptcies, it's at least clear who the 50 largest creditors are, or where the money was coming from. Not this time.

Fortune · Nov 17, 2022

Tech venture capital fueled FTX’s rise—and bears some responsibility for its downfall

Mounting evidence shows VC firms ignored major warning signs and failed to take basic risk-mitigation steps.

Fortune · Nov 17, 2022

New FTX boss, who worked on Enron bankruptcy, condemns ‘unprecedented failure’

US corporate restructuring expert John Ray says ‘never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls’

The Guardian - US · Nov 17, 2022

‘A lot of people have compared this to Lehman. I would compare it to Enron’: Larry Summers has some choice words for Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX

Lessons from the FTX collapse center more around accounting than crypto complexity, believes ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

Fortune · Nov 11, 2022