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...Sam Bankman-Fried’s shambolic rise and fall brought unwanted attention to Jane Street, his former employer....
...Bankman-Fried went with the riskier trade. Womp womp womp numbers numbers numbers fun fun fun....
...Outside the main visitor entrance, sculpture comes into its own with Helen Chadwick’s enamelled white bronze “Piss Flowers”, created from the shapes made by the artist and her partner urinating into snow...
...The administrators have agreed to sell about two-thirds of the 8 per cent stake in Anthropic for about $884mn to a group of 22 investors, including ATIC and Jane Street, according to filings on Friday....
...He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and took a job at Jane Street Capital before quitting to apply Wall Street trading logic to crypto with his own private trading firm Alameda Research...
...A central question is whether it is plausible that Bankman-Fried — with his college degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his Jane Street Capital pedigree and his famous intellect — left...
...he calmly talked the jury through the founding of his two companies — FTX and an affiliated trading firm, Alameda Research — with college friends from MIT and former colleagues at New York trading firm Jane...
...Bankman-Fried met Ellison while they worked at trading firm Jane Street, and he later recruited her as one of the first traders at Alameda Research in 2018....
...Certainly like at Jane Street, he’s a success, right? At Jane Street, it’s OK to have a Sam Bankman-Fried because you have 200 of them and no one one of them is able to sink the firm....
...A child of academics, Ellison graduated from Stanford University before joining Jane Street as a trader, where she met Bankman-Fried — also the son of two professors....
...She studied at Stanford before joining Jane Street as a trader, where she met Bankman-Fried. She joined Alameda in 2018....
...Their paths crossed as traders at Jane Street. Shortly after Bankman-Fried quit the trading firm, Ellison followed him back to California to join Alameda....
...Ellison met Bankman-Fried while they were both traders at Wall Street firm Jane Street, and went on to join him at his cryptocurrency exchange in 2019, where she ran trading firm Alameda Research....
...He said ever since Jane Street, he thought he had got higher bonuses because of his hair and that it was an important part of FTX’s narrative and image,” Ellison testified....
...Sam Bankman-Fried may have just found out the hard way....
...But it isn’t the media’s job to improve the listings environment, it’s the regulator’s, writes the FT’s Helen Thomas....
...— who also took home t-shirts — and Jane Streeters Vesey St. Tuna Trading Ltd. with a very respectable 44.5 and 42 points each....
...The line is delivered in tones of arch nonchalance to Helen Norton’s Cheryl-Ann, an American tourist who has rented a room in Nell’s County Clare home on Airbnb....
...The sub that gives me the most value, every week, is Anne Helen Petersen’s Culture Study newsletter. Anne Helen’s culture and life writing hits the mark, plus she’s also a workplace expert....
...The jury selection for Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial starts in New York on Tuesday. Here’s the FT’s account of the meltdown of FTX, his $40bn cryptocurrency empire....
...He also said Naqvi may not be held in prison while awaiting trial, pointing to the bail that a US judge recently granted Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX who was extradited to...
...Any venture capitalists that cooed at the sight of Jane Street on Bankman-Fried’s CV should have noted that the firm itself never invested in FTX....
...But it was only when “A Few South Africans” — a series of intricate, mixed-media portraits of activists such as Helen Joseph, who co-authored the Freedom Charter, and exiled singer Miriam Makeba — had its...
...That funding crunch is what (allegedly) led Sam Bankman-Fried & Co to commandeer customer funds to replace the lost liquidity....
...There is lovely quiet work too from Priyanga Burford as Florence’s wise, besotted friend Helen and Hugh Ross as her long-suffering husband....
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