BitGo CEO says Clarity’s failure left capital markets exposed to risk potentially worse than Lehman
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BitGo CEO Mike Belshe warned that the failure of Clarity left U.S. markets exposed to systemic risk. He said the concern centers on an exchange that also holds client assets and on a single firm combining exchange, brokerage, and custody functions.
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What it means
Market participants that use exchanges, custody services, or brokerage functions are the ones most directly implicated tomorrow morning, because the warning points to a setup where one firm can sit across all three roles. That puts the structure of the market, rather than a single product, at the center of the concern. (per theblock.co)
What changes in practice is the way those functions can be bundled inside one firm, since Belshe’s warning is about a firm holding exchange, brokerage, and custody roles together. What stays the same is that the event described is a warning about exposure, not a change in how any specific market participant is shown to be operating today.
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