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CBC
18-07-2025
- Business
- CBC
Trump's crypto bills: what does he stand to gain?
U.S. President Donald Trump promised to make America the crypto currency capital of the world and he's been working to make good on that. This week, in what House Republicans dubbed "Crypto Week", he pushed Congress to pass three major pieces of legislation championed by the industry. Trump hasn't always been a fan of crypto but after his sons caught on and tens of millions from the crypto industry poured into his re-election campaign, he's gone all in. Now, he's got multiple ventures but none as big as World Liberty Financial, the start-up that's earned his family an estimated $500 million so far. But who is he striking these deals with? And why are some Democrats calling it all a "vehicle for corruption"? To untangle this complex web of policymaking, moneymaking and influence, we're joined by Jacob Silverman, the co-author of "Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud" and the host of The Naked Emperor, CBC Understood's four part podcast series about the rise and fall of FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Kroll CEO considers listing shares again, El Confidencial reports
MADRID (Reuters) -The CEO of New York-based financial service company Kroll, Jacob Silverman, said he was considering taking the company public again in an interview published by Madrid news website El Confidencial on Monday. Although there are no concrete plans on the table, he said future options include going public again, El Confidencial reported. "We would be a much better listed company now than we were 15 years ago," he was quoted as saying. A group of investors led by private equity funds Further Global and Stone Point Capital bought Kroll, which was previously known as Duff & Phelps, for $4.2 billion in 2020. The two funds and Kroll did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Business Insider
07-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Our favorite photos from Bitcoin 2025
From May 27 to 29, some 35,000 people gathered at the Venetian Expo Center in Las Vegas for Bitcoin 2025, the world's largest annual gathering of bitcoin industry professionals and enthusiasts. As Jacob Silverman reports in a feature dispatch from the conference for Business Insider, "More than anything, Bitcoin 2025 was a victory celebration for an industry that pushed all its chips in behind Donald Trump and the Republican Party during the 2024 election cycle and won handsomely." This year's speakers included Vice President JD Vance, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks, Sen. Jim Justice (who shared the stage with his bulldog, Babydog), Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and the recently pardoned Silk Road drug market founder Ross Ulbricht. BI also sent photographer David Becker to cover the conference, and his photos captured the energy and triumphalism of the sprawling bitcoin community today.
