Bloomberg Law
Nov. 22, 2022, 7:40 PM

Genesis Balance Sheet Reveals Web of Loans Across Silbert Empire

Sonali Basak
Sonali Basak
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Erin Hudson
Vildana Hajric
Vildana Hajric
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Muyao Shen
Muyao Shen
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The troubled brokerage Genesis Global has $2.8 billion in outstanding loans on its balance sheet, with about 30% of its lending made to related parties including its parent company, Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, according to people familiar with the matter.

Among them, a lending subsidiary named Genesis Global Capital had been lending money to Genesis Global Trading -- the brokerage unit that has become a key counterparty to institutions across the crypto industry. In a letter to shareholders on Tuesday, Silbert said that intercompany loans were made “in the ordinary course of business.”

Silbert noted that DCG has ...