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Former users of the bankrupt Canadian crypto exchange Quadriga CX will soon get a check for 13% of their claim, according to a notice to creditors published late Friday by accounting giant EY, CoinDesk.com reported. Documents from EY shows Quadriga’s estate owes CAD $303.1 million ($222.3 million) across 17,648 claims from creditors, including Canada Post and the country’s tax authority, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Filings show that there are 15 claims with a value greater than CAD $1 million, and 28 claims with a value between CAD $500,000 and $999,999.

The IrishHigh Court has been asked to wind up two related companies involved in the supply of chain finance to Irish and international funds after proposed survival schemes were rejected by one of the firm’s creditors, the Irish Times reported. Earlier this year, the High Court appointed insolvency practitioner Declan McDonald, of PwC, as examiner to Dublin-registered Tower Trade Finance Ireland Limited (TTFI) and associated company Deal Partners Logistics Ltd (DPL).

The Government has insisted the Quinn Insurance insolvency was a matter for the courts, after the Social Democrats urged Ministers to force the release of reports setting out the costs of the company’s administration, the Irish Times reported. Social Democrats TD Róisín Shortall said it was “not good enough” that key details about fee payments to administrators Grant Thornton and their advisers remained unpublished, three days after the company was wound up with a High Court liquidation order.

Ghana's official creditors have formed a committee co-chaired by China and France to launch debt restructurings talks, the Paris Club said on Friday, paving the way for a sign-off on a $3 billion International Monetary Fund loan for the country, Reuters reported. The West African nation is struggling through its worst economic crisis in a generation, defaulting on most of its external debt in December and completing a domestic debt exchange in February.

Binance said on Friday it was withdrawing from Canada, weeks after the country issued a series of new guidelines for cryptocurrency exchanges including investor limits and mandatory registrations, Reuters reported. Canada has tightened regulations for crypto asset trading platforms in recent months, with the introduction of a pre-registration process. The companies that do not adhere to the rules will face potential enforcement action, according to the website of the Ontario Securities Commission.

A court in Montenegro agreed on Friday to release Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur charged in the U.S. with a multibillion-dollar fraud, on bail of 400,000 euros ($440,320), pending a trial on local charges, Reuters reported. Do Kwon, a South Korean national, is the former CEO of South Korea-based Terraform Labs, the company behind the stablecoin TerraUSD that collapsed in May 2022 roiling cryptocurrency markets. Following his arrest in Montenegro in March, the U.S.

Mexico’s industrial production took an unexpected hit in March, driven by a decline in manufacturing output and a stark drop in mining activity as tighter financial conditions drag down Latin America’s second-largest economy, Bloomberg News reported. Mexican industrial production declined 0.9% from February, below economists’ median forecast for a 0.1% contraction. Mining output dipped 3.5% in the monthly comparison while manufacturing slowed 1.1%. The likelihood of a US recession and high interest rates could hurt the sector and the overall economy over the course of 2023.

Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd said on Thursday it had no plans to file for insolvency, days after the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) issued a notice to the Ajay Singh-promoted private carrier on a petition filed by an aircraft lessor seeking initiation of insolvency resolution proceedings against it, the Economic Times of India reported.

Two months after many investors were caught off guard by the writedown of Credit Suisse Group AG’s Additional Tier 1 bonds, the securities are once again at the center of a market debate. This time the divide is over whether the event will trigger an insurance payout, Bloomberg News reported. Funds including FourSixThree Capital and Diameter Capital Partners have been buying credit default swaps linked to another set of junior Credit Suisse bonds, betting that the derivatives panel tasked with overseeing the market will rule that a credit event has occurred.

The Bank of England raised its key interest rate for the 12th consecutive time and signaled more increases are possible as it released less gloomy forecasts for the U.K. economy, the Wall Street Journal reported. The central bank raised the rate to 4.5% from 4.25% on Thursday, having begun to tighten its monetary policy in December 2021 when borrowing costs stood at 0.1%. The key rate is now at its highest level since October 2008, while the cumulative move over 12 steps is the largest since the late 1980s.