{"id":79464,"date":"2023-05-29T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=79464"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:13:17","slug":"temasek-trims-pay-for-top-executives-tied-to-ftx-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/temasek-trims-pay-for-top-executives-tied-to-ftx-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Temasek trims pay for top executives tied to FTX investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temasek Holdings<a href=\"https:\/\/www.temasek.com.sg\/en\/news-and-resources\/news-room\/statements\/2023\/our-chairman-statement-on-ftx-internal-review\"> face<\/a> a reduction in the compensation packages of staff involved in the $275 million FTX investments, although an internal review found no breaches of fiduciary duties.<\/p>\n<p>On November 17, 2022, the group wrote off its investments in the cryptocurrency exchange and its US subsidiary. The group assessed <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/singapores-temasek-holdings-writes-off-275-million-in-ftx-investments\"> total losses of $275 million <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An internal review was initiated soon after<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ftx-group-files-for-bankruptcy-sam-bankman-fried-resigns-as-ceo\"> the collapse of FTX<\/a> in November 2022. As a result, both the investment team and senior management took &#8216;collective responsibility&#8217; and agreed to a reduction in compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The document notes &#8216;inherent risks of any investment&#8217;, as well as the need to continue investing in new sectors and technologies to better understand how they may transform the portfolios of Temasek&#8217;s portfolio companies.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2022, during parliamentary hearings in Singapore<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/singapore-authorities-weigh-the-implications-of-the-ftx-collapse-for-the-economy\"> were described as<\/a> &#8216;very limited&#8217; consequences of the FTX collapse for the financial system and the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lawrence Wong, the Minister of Finance and Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore <span data-descr=\"Monetary Authority of Singapore\" class=\"old_tooltip\">MAS<\/span>, the collapse of the exchange inflicted Temasek not only financial but reputational damage.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, losses from investments in FTX were acknowledged by<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sequoia-capital-records-213-5-million-loss-on-ftx-investments\"> Sequoia Capital<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blackrock-reveals-24-million-investment-in-bankrupt-ftx\"> BlackRock<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ontario-teachers-pension-plan-to-write-off-95-million-investment-in-ftx\"> Ontario Teachers&#8217; Pension Plan (Canada)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temasek Holdings staff in Singapore involved in the $275 million FTX investments will face reduced compensation, though an internal review found no breaches of fiduciary duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83,1236,2175],"class_list":["post-79464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-business","tag-ftx","tag-temasek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79466,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79464\/revisions\/79466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}