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Robinhood to Buy Back Sam Bankman-Fried's Stake for $605.7M

The 55 million HOOD shares were owned by Sam Bankman-Fried and fellow FTX co-founder Gary Wang through Emergent Fidelity Technologies

By Jamie Crawley
AccessTimeIconSep 1, 2023 at 1:42 p.m. UTC
ROBINHOOD app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)
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Popular trading platform Robinhood (HOOD) has agreed with the United States Marshal Service (USMS) to buy back $605.7 million in stock previously owned by Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX.

The U.S. government seized the 55 million HOOD shares owned by Bankman-Fried and fellow FTX co-founder Gary Wang through Emergent Fidelity Technologies holding company around the start of this year.

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    • The share repurchase agreement was approved by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Aug. 28, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Filing dated Aug. 30.

    Robinhood shares climbed around 3% to $11.21 during the early Friday trading session.

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    Jamie Crawley
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