Robinhood s'apprête à acheter la participation du fondateur de FTX dans l'entreprise

• Robinhood Markets vise à acheter ses actions qu'il a vendues au fondateur de l'échange de crypto en faillite FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried.
• Le conseil d'administration de la société américaine de services financiers a également donné son approbation pour l'achat des actions.
• Plus de 50 millions d'actions HOOD ont été achetées pour la première fois par Sam Bankman-Fried et le co-fondateur de FTX, Gary Wang, au début de 2022.
• La société a enregistré une augmentation de 5% de son chiffre d'affaires total net, qui s'est élevé à environ $380 millions.

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Robinhood Markets, l'une des sociétés de crypto et de négociation d'actions les plus importantes basée à Menlo Park, en Californie, vise à acheter ses actions qu'elle a vendues au fondateur et ancien PDG de l'échange de crypto en faillite FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, également connu sous le nom de SBF en l'espace cryptographique. Ces actions HOOD ont été une question cruciale sur laquelle de nombreuses entités se sont battues. Fait intéressant, le conseil d'administration de la société américaine de services financiers a également donné son approbation pour l'achat des actions. 

Over 50 million Robinhood shares were first purchased by Sam Bankman-Fried and co-founder of FTX, Gary Wang, in early 2022 when rumors were circulated in the market that SBF’s exchange will take over the American financial services provider. However, this did not happen, as both companies denied the rumors not much later. Interestingly, the Department of Justice (DoJ) currently has control over the HOOD shares, which are currently worth close to $590 million at the time of writing.

Dans son quatrième trimestre rapport, Robinhood a confirmé qu'il avait reçu l'approbation du conseil d'administration pour acheter la participation que le 

“Looking back over the past year, I’m incredibly proud of the tremendous execution of our team on our 2022 product roadmap. We’re now starting to see meaningful traction on a number of the products we launched, which gives us confidence they can grow into significant business lines over time,” said Vlad Tenev, CEO and Co-Founder of Robinhood Markets. 

Moreover, Tenev, along with his co-founder Baiju Bhatt, also confirmed the cancellation of nearly $500 million in share-based compensation to ensure the company “has as many resources as possible to deliver value to customers and shareholders.” 2022 was a rocky year for Robinhood, as its stock plummeted significantly and the company also failed to maintain the growth rate that it had enjoyed in the bull run. 

It is crucial to note that, as per an earlier report from Bitnation, Bankman-Fried’s holding company, Emergent Fidelity Technologies, filed for bankruptcy. This is the firm that currently holds the 50 million Robinhood shares, which were purchased by SBF using funds from FTX’s sister company, Alameda Research. 

Moreover, the DoJ seized around 55,273,469 shares of Robinhood (HOOD) along with $20 million in cash from Emergent Fidelity Technologies, which were cited as the “only known assets” belonging to the holding company. Prior to the seizure by the DoJ, these shares were held by brokerage firm ED&F Man Capital Markets. These shares have been a point of contention among BlockFi, FTX creditor Yonathan Ben Shimon, and Bankman-Fried himself. 

“We continued to deliver on our product roadmap and kept our costs lean. On the capital management front, our Board authorized us to pursue purchasing most or all of our shares that Emergent Fidelity Technologies bought in May 2022. The proposed share purchase underscores the confidence the Board of Directors and management team have in our business,” Jason Warnick, Chief Financial Officer of Robinhood Markets, stated. 

D'autre part, le rapport sur les résultats a également confirmé que Robinhood avait enregistré une augmentation de 5% de son revenu total net, qui s'élevait à environ $380 millions. Cependant, les revenus basés sur les transactions ont diminué séquentiellement de 11% pour atteindre $186 millions au quatrième trimestre 2022, tandis que les revenus nets d'intérêts ont augmenté de 30% séquentiellement pour atteindre $167 millions.

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