Digital Currency Group Suspends Dividends Amid Regulatory Trouble With Subsidiary Genesis

According to a shareholders’ letter from Digital Currency Group (DCG) viewed by finance and crypto publication Coindesk, the company has suspended dividends until further notice. This news follows the U.S. Komisija za vrednostne papirje in borzo (SEC) charging a subsidiary firm of DCG, Genesis Global Capital, with operating an “unregistered offer and sale of securities to retail investors.”

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Digital Currency Group Takes Steps to Strengthen Balance Sheet by Suspending Dividends

On Jan. 17, 2023, Coindesk reporter Ian Allison published an article disclosing that the Digital Currency Group (DCG) is suspending dividend payments for the time being. It is worth noting that Coindesk, a financial crypto-focused news outlet, is an “independent operating subsidiary” of DCG. Allison’s report cites a shareholders’ letter reviewed by the publication, which notes that the decision was made in response to the “current market environment.”

DCG added that the firm has “been focused on strengthening our balance sheet by reducing operating expenses and preserving liquidity — As such, we have made the decision to suspend DCG’s quarterly dividend distribution until further notice.”

The Coindesk article follows the problems the crypto lending subsidiary of DCG, Genesis Global Capital, has been dealing with over the past two months. On Nov. 16, 2022, Genesis’s lending unit suspended withdrawals and new loan originations. It was then poročali that Genesis owes Gemini Earn customers $900 milijonov, and as a result, Gemini also paused withdrawals and recently shut down the Earn program. Dodatno, poročila detailed that Genesis was being probed by U.S. regulatorji, and Gemini formed a committee with Houlihan Lokey to resolve the Genesis liquidity issues.

Later, Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss wrote a critical open letter about the subject, and then followed up with another open letter insisting that the DCG board remove Barry Silbert from his role as DCG’s CEO. Silbert responded with a letter addressed to DCG shareholders, in which he dismisses many of the claims made by Winklevoss. The following day, both Gemini and Genesis were napolnjena s strani ZDA. Komisija za vrednostne papirje in borzo (SEC) with conducting an unregistered offering.

DCG owns a vast portfolio of crypto companies, including Coindesk, Livarna ZDA, Grayscale Investments, and Genesis Global Capital. All of these companies are major players in the space; na primer, Foundry USA is the largest bitcoin mining pool in terms of hashrate, and Grayscale manages the largest Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) in the crypto industry.

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Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman je vodja novic pri Bitcoin-Tidings.com News in finančni novinar, ki živi na Floridi. Redman je od takrat aktiven član skupnosti kriptovalut 2011. Ima strast do bitcoinov, odprtokodna koda, in decentralizirane aplikacije. Od septembra 2015, Redman je napisal več kot 6,000 članki za Bitcoin-Tidings.com Novice o motečih protokolih, ki se pojavljajo danes.



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