Long before Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX cryptocurrency empire collapsed this month, it already was on the radar of federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

Sens.  Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., the committee's chairman, and John Boozman, R-Ark., its ranking member, will need to revamp their legislation to oversee crypto, which was supported by FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried.

SoFi Technologies was supposed to divest its digital-asset trading arm when it acquired Golden Pacific Bancorp, but Senate Democrats say the bank has instead expanded it.

Moves by cryptocurrency exchanges to reassure markets about their stability are having little effect on jittery users, who keep pulling funds from the venues.

A new report by the examiner of the bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network details shortfalls in controls and operations at two of the company's product offerings related to digital assets it held in custody for customers, raising issues of whether and how these users can get reimbursed.

The collapse of the crypto empire founded by political megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried is being transformed into a new political battlefront as Republicans highlight links between Democrats and their onetime benefactor.

Kristin Johnson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission urged crypto industry whistleblowers to come forward in the aftermath of FTX Group's implosion, saying tipsters have previously received millions of dollars for their help.

Lawmakers on both sides of the crypto debate see a call to action in the demise of the world's second largest crypto exchange. But a consensus path forward has yet to emerge.

Visa's Qatar 'face payments' rollout, Regions' continuing-ed perk and more in banking news this week.

The bank postponed its quarterly earnings report and warned of a $27.5 million loss tied to troubles in its digital- asset mining loan portfolio.

FTX co-founder Samuel Bankman-Fried, one of his related companies and two other top executives at the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange received massive loans from an affiliated trading arm, Alameda Research, according to a bankruptcy court filing Thursday.

The embattled cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is undermining efforts to reorganize his crumbling empire with "incessant and disruptive tweeting" that appears aimed at moving assets away from the control of a U.S. court in favor of one in the Bahamas, U.S. lawyers for the bankrupt crypto platform FTX said in a court filing.

Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters and the panel's top Republican, Rep. Patrick McHenry, pressed bank regulators to support bipartisan stablecoin legislation and other efforts to toughen standards for cryptocurrencies in the aftermath of the FTX collapse.

The cryptocurrency lender BlockFi is preparing to file for bankruptcy within days, according to people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named because discussions are private.

Despite the massive losses and growing criticism that the industry is rife with fraudsters and Ponzi schemes, a dozen industry employees interviewed by Bloomberg News said that while they're rattled by the crisis, they remain committed to crypto and its potential.

While many of the details around FTX's remarkable collapse will only be revealed as it progresses through bankruptcy, interviews with FIA conferencegoers this week show they're facing a reckoning of their own.

The fall of a major cryptocurrency exchange and subsequent drop in digital currency prices represent an opportunity to some bankers, who say investors and businesses will turn to regulated companies for crypto help.

The Federal Reserve's vice chair for supervision, in his first appearance before Congress since being confirmed, testified that the banking industry has been spared so far from the chaos in cryptocurrency markets. But he warned that too little is known about nonbank activities that could "blow back" to the regulated financial system.

Republicans and Democrats have made constructive inroads toward drafting a stablecoin bill this Congress. The next Congress needs to build on that progress — and think bigger.

Voyager Digital Ltd. is trying to sign a deal to sell itself to one of the bidders that lost the auction for the bankrupt crypto lender, after the winner of that auction, FTX, was itself forced into insolvency proceedings.