What Happens If Your Brokerage Firm Goes Bankrupt?

How protected are you if the brokerage firm where you hold your stocks, bonds, and crypto assets files for bankruptcy? Why you shouldn't store your crypto assets with an online broker. Topics covered include:How traditional brokerage firms protect their client assets in case of bankruptucyHow cryptocurrency brokers, such as Voyager, mistreat their clients in bankruptcy proceedingsWhat is the safest way to hold cryptocurrency For more information on this episode click here. Sponsors Keeper - keep your passwords safe Policygenius Money For the Rest of Us Plus Show Notes Voyager To Acquire Circle Invest Retail Digital Asset Business From Circle Internet Financial—Cision Welcome, Circle Invest! Voyager Acquires Circle Invest's Retail Customers—Voyager Crypto lender Voyager Digital files for bankruptcy by Shivam Patel, Sinead Cruise, and Tom Wilson—Reuters Crypto lender Voyager addresses customer anger in first bankruptcy hearing by Dietrich Knauth—Reuters If a Brokerage Firm Closes Its Doors—FINRA Crypto Broker Voyager Digital Says Three Arrows Capital Hasn’t Repaid $666 Million in Loans by Vicky Ge Huang—The Wall Street Journal From $10 billion to zero: How a crypto hedge fund collapsed and dragged many investors down with it by MacKenzie Sigalos—NCBC Ropes & Gray Update on Customer USD and Crypto—Voyager Investors lament potentially lost ‘millions’ on Voyager bankruptcy by Brian Quarmby—Cointelegraph Coinbase Quarterly Report CFTC Charges MF Global Inc., MF Global Holdings Ltd., Former CEO Jon S. Corzine, and Former Employee Edith O’Brien for MF Global’s Unlawful Misuse of Nearly One Billion Dollars of Customer Funds and Related Violations—Commodity Futures Trading Commission Related Episodes 387: Why Most Money Fails 392: What Is Money and How to Use It See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.