The Binance global exchange, Binance CEO Zhao and Prime Trust did not respond to detailed questions about the transfers.
Soward didn't specify when Merit Peak's activities ceased. She added: "Merit Peak is neither trading nor providing any kind of services on the Binance.US platform" and "only Binance.US employees have access" to the bank accounts of the U.S. In a statement, she said Reuters' reporting used "outdated information" without elaborating further. Prime Trust made $650 million in wire transfer deposits into the Binance.US account during the quarter, the bank records show.Ī Binance.US spokesperson, Kimberly Soward, did not address Reuters' questions about the transfers detailed in the bank records. The exchange's public terms of use at the time said its customers' dollar deposits were held at Silvergate and a Nevada-based custodian firm called Prime Trust LLC. Reuters couldn't determine the reason for the transfers or whether any of the money belonged to Binance.US customers. Company messages show the transfers to Merit Peak began in late 2020. exchange's operating company, according to the records.
The Binance.US account was registered under the name of BAM Trading, the U.S. Over the first three months of 2021, more than $400 million flowed from the Binance.US account at California-based Silvergate Bank to this trading firm, Merit Peak Ltd, according to records for the quarter, which were reviewed by Reuters. partner and transferred large sums of money from the account to a trading firm managed by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, banking records and company messages show. Feb 16 (Reuters) - Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance had secret access to a bank account belonging to its purportedly independent U.S.
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