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  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Barclays to tether: the test is yet to come

    Bolting the stable door after the stablecoin has bolted

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Investors pull $7bn from Tether as stablecoin jitters intensify

    Tether’s market value falls 9% after stablecoin briefly lost peg against US dollar

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Q&ATwitter Inc
    Is this cryptogeddon? Join a live FT Twitter discussion

    Scott Chipolina, Jemima Kelly, Kadhim Shubber and Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan will take your questions at 3.30pm BST/10.30am ET

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Crypto scares everyone Premium content

    And how the Fed can control rent inflation

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Lex
    Tether: stablecoin sees stable foundation shaken Premium content

    Cash and bank deposits made up only 5 per cent of its assets as of the end of December

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Explainer
    Why is tether central to the global cryptocurrency market?

    The $80bn stablecoin has drawn close scrutiny after it slipped far from its peg against the dollar

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Stablecoins
    How stablecoins are destabilising crypto

    The ramifications of a tether crisis of confidence.

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Crypto industry shaken as Tether’s dollar peg snaps

    Token’s tech chief declines to provide details on Treasury holdings on fear of revealing ‘secret sauce’

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Markets InsightKatie Martin
    What happens in crypto may not stay in crypto this time around

    Even some who have sipped the Kool-Aid accept the latest cracks may be different

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    There are 99 problems and Tether ain’t $1

    In fast and furious markets, a stablecoin drifts

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    Tether’s CEO: from IT sales to calling the shots in crypto land

    Jean-Louis van der Velde’s career offered few clues that he would become a key figure in fast-growing industry

  • Monday, 25 October, 2021
    FT Asset Management
    Al Gore’s ‘inconvenient truth’ for investors

    Plus, a short seller’s $1m ‘bounty’ on Tether, more outflows from unloved UK stocks and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt

  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    Special Report#TechFT: How safe are digital assets?
    The FT crypto glossary

    Want to speak crypto? This guide tells you all you need to know

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    Short-seller Hindenburg sets $1m ‘bounty’ for details on Tether’s reserves

    Scrutiny comes as growing number of investors are looking to tap fast-growing digital asset market

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Tether’s bitcoin-backed lending clashes with dollar promise

    Stablecoin operator accepts crypto in return for some loans, big customer says

  • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
    Gillian Tett
    Stablecoin investors may be due a wake-up call

    The critical attention being paid to companies such as Tether is a welcome development

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    The Big Read
    Tether: the former plastic surgeon behind the crypto reserve currency

    Giancarlo Devasini’s status at the centre of the cryptocurrency world is a remarkable transformation from his previous careers

  • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
    News in-depthCryptocurrencies
    Tether’s commercial paper disclosure places it among global giants

    JPMorgan estimates stablecoin operator would be one of the largest investors in the US market

  • Friday, 14 May, 2021
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Tether says its reserves are  backed by cash to the tune of . . .  2.9%

    Rather far off from the 100% it used to claim isn’t it?! But still, we now have “unrivaled transparency” AKA pie charts!

  • Monday, 26 April, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    Tether claims $10bn monthly growth after NY fine

    ‘Stablecoin’ operator due to provide details on assets backing $50bn in digital tokens next month

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    Tether and Bitfinex agree to pay $18.5m penalty after New York probe

    State’s attorney-general accused groups of covering up ‘massive’ financial losses

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Law
    New York’s investigation of cryptocurrency Tether hits fresh delay

    Parent company faces allegation of ‘covering up’ loss of $850m in company and customer funds

  • Monday, 7 October, 2019
    Cryptocurrencies
    Tether slammed as “part-fraud, part-pump-and-dump, and part-money laundering”

    Class action lawsuit filed against Tether and Bitfinex by the same lawyers who sued Craig Wright.

  • Monday, 1 July, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Wha-Tether could be going on with the bitcoin price?

    Clues are everywhere (even in the title).

  • Friday, 26 April, 2019
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    We all become MF Global eventually, Tether edition

    How one crypto exchange may have become the worst of the conventional system.

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