Caroline Ellison: How a young math whiz with an appetite for risk became a major player in Sam Bankman-Fried’s corrupt crypto empire

After the fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the trading firm she ran, Alameda Research, the 28-year-old became an unlikely celebrity—and a public villain.

• 2023-05-26
• Caroline Ellison Glenn Ellison Sara Fisher Ellison Caroline Ellison Bankman-Fried FTX Ellison New York City

Signature Bank Raised Its Crypto Exposure After Slowing Real-Estate Lending

The Signature Bank may be most remembered for getting in too deep with cryptocurrency firms. The bank had been working for years to lessen real-estate lending as a share of its total business after Signature’s exposure greatly exceeded what U.S. bank regulators recommended for managing risk. It also slowed real-estate lending after changes to New York tenant laws that made it harder for landlords to profit from deregulation.

• 2023-03-20
• Signature Bank commercial real estate New York City property loans bank regulators Silicon Valley Bank real estate apartment landlords