Legal issues and news

BlockFi filed for bankruptcy, the latest crypto firm to collapse in the wake of the crypto exchange FTX's rapid downfall. 

By one estimate, fraud increases 25% between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. Banks and credit unions are reaching out to help customers avoid the scams.

President Biden announced that his administration would extend the pandemic-era pause in student loan repayments through June 30 amid legal challenges to his college debt-forgiveness plan.

The digital-asset brokerage Genesis is struggling to raise fresh cash for its lending unit, and it's warning potential investors that it may need to file for bankruptcy if its efforts fail, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The case involved a customer who was charged $100,000 in legal fees when he tried to pay off a commercial mortgage early. After the borrower waged a nearly decadelong legal fight, a Florida court ordered the bank to reimburse a portion of the fees.

From a German bank seeking a more than $2 million payment to a Chinese investor requesting $21,000 of lost savings. Claimants around the world who were caught up in the epic collapse of FTX Group are beginning to appear in court filings.

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

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.

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.