Michael Roddan is a Banking Reporter at The Information. He covers a range of topics including crypto and blockchain, corporate finance, and business intelligence, with a particular focus on cryptocurrency regulation and trading. His work has been featured in The Australian Financial Review and The Information.
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Michael Roddan's articles cover a wide array of topics within the realms of business, politics, tech, legal & compliance, finance & economy. His coverage often includes government announcements and legal policy regulations related to fintech, banking industry and Wall Street.
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By: Michael Roddan
Polymarket was already under pressure to curb insider trading when it launched a program late last year to support startups that sent trades to its prediction market. Those companies quickly began handing suspected insider trading accounts to their own customers, letting them copy those trades. ...
By: Michael Roddan
Billionaire crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, a prominent investor in crypto projects launched by President Donald Trump and his family, on Wednesday labelled a proposal by one of those projects–that would lock up trading of a key token owned by investors–a “scam.”World Liberty Financial, a crypto project co-founded by President Donald Trump and his sons, on Wednesday proposed to early
By: Michael Roddan
Billionaire crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Tuesday sued World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by President Donald Trump and his family, accusing the project and one of its co-founders of “criminal extortion” after he declined to invest more money into the company.Sun in 2024 invested $30 million into World Liberty and was granted a further $15 million worth of the
By: Yueqi Yang, Michael Roddan
Fintech startup Mercury said it raised $200 million at a $5.2 billion valuation shortly after receiving conditional approval from regulators for a bank license.The neobank, led by CEO and co-founder Immad Akhund, drew investment from TCV and existing venture firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital. The company raised $300 million at a $3.5 billion
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opened an investigation into insider trading on Polymarket and Kalshi, warning that lawmakers may take action against the prediction markets.James Comer, the Republican chair of the committee, said the “growing pattern of insider trading activity on prediction market platforms indicates that Congressional action may be necessary.” In
Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with using confidential information to win $1.2 million betting on Polymarket, according to a Federal Court complaint unsealed on Wednesday.Michele Spagnuolo, a staff software engineer at Google, allegedly placed bets on the prediction market for wagers tied to top Google searches. Trading under the name “AlphaRacoon,” Spagnuolo last year placed
Prediction markets platform Kalshi is asking customers in some wagers to provide the name of their employer, industry and job function before making bets, to help the company crack down on potential insider trading.“For markets with heightened insider or manipulation risk, we now collect employment information before traders can participate,” the company said in a blog post .The
