Sam Bankman-Fried.
Sam Bankman-Fried.
  • FTX was surveilled by Australian financial regulators as early as March 2022, per the Guardian.
  • Almost 30,000 investors in Australia lost money to Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange, reports say.
  • FTX Australia obtained a regulatory license after acquiring a company that already had one.

FTX was being watched by Australian regulators for almost eight months before the crypto exchange's collapse last November, The Guardian reported.