Shares in the bank, a go-to funder of tech start-ups, have fallen more than 60 percent in the past day as investors fear for its finances, and those of similarly sized lenders.
The crypto exchange’s collapse is stoking fears of contagion across the industry. Meanwhile, FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, is still speaking out.
George K. Lerner, a psychiatrist who has worked at the collapsed crypto exchange FTX since last year, said he had no knowledge of wrongdoing at the firm.