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Binance head Richard Teng says the exchange is in “close touch” with its customers regarding the bankruptcy of FlowBank, which stored the exchange’s clients trading collateral. 
Cryptocurrency exchange <a href="https://crypto.news/tag/binance/" target="_blank" rel="">Binance</a> seems unaffected by <a href="https://crypto.news/tag/flowbank/" target="_blank" rel="">FlowBank</a>‘s bankruptcy, following the Swiss regulator’s <a href="https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2024/06/20240613-mm-flowbank/" target="_blank" rel="">announcement</a> on Jun. 13 that the bank had “significantly and seriously breached” its minimum capital requirements. 
In an <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-13/binance-ceo-teng-sees-landmark-year-as-crypto-goes-mainstream?data=ashoucrypto98dyhnews0ksd" target="_blank" rel="">interview</a> with Bloomberg, Binance chief executive Richard Teng reassured that the exchange is cooperating with its customers regarding the bankruptcy, noting that “very little” assets were held at FlowBank. 
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 “There’s very little assets on FlowBank on the tripartite arrangement front.” 
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Launched in 2020, FlowBank quickly became a friendly hub for crypto businesses. It partnered with Binance in an arrangement allowing the exchange’s clients to keep their trading collateral at the bank rather than on the crypto platform. The Geneva-based bank also had ties to the <a href="https://crypto.news/tag/trueusd/" target="_blank" rel="">TrueUSD</a> stablecoin and crypto asset manager <a href="https://crypto.news/tag/coinshares/" target="_blank" rel="">CoinShares</a>. 
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In <a href="https://x.com/tusdio/status/1801466087315488808" target="_blank" rel="">an X post</a> on Jun. 14, TrueUSD noted it had closed its bank account at FlowBank in April this year, adding it has no exposure to the bankrupt entity. 
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 TUSD has closed its bank account at FlowBank since April 2024 and currently has no reserve exposure or banking relationship with FlowBank.— TrueUSD (@tusdio) <a href="https://twitter.com/tusdio/status/1801466087315488808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="">June 14, 2024</a>
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CoinShares said in a <a href="https://coinshares.com/news/update-on-flowbank-sa" target="_blank" rel="">blog post</a> that its exposure to the bank as a customer is “immaterial,” with deposits totaling approximately £100,000 (around $127,600). Additionally, CoinShares is an <a href="https://crypto.news/coinshares-investments-swiss-flowbank-29-3/" target="_blank" rel="">investor</a> in FlowBank, holding nearly 30% of the bank’s shares as of March 2022. 
In May 2023, <a href="https://crypto.news/binance-to-allow-traders-to-store-their-assets-on-external-banks/" target="_blank" rel="">reports</a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-30/binance-may-let-some-clients-keep-trading-collateral-in-bank-accounts" target="_blank" rel="">surfaced</a> that Binance was in discussions to allow some institutional clients to keep their trading collateral at a bank to reduce counterparty risk following the collapse of FTX. It remains unclear whether FlowBank was chosen for this purpose. 
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Binance CEO says customers have ‘very little’ assets in bankrupt FlowBank

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