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US Senator Loeffler Reports 2019 Income of $3.5M From Role as CEO of Bakkt

US Senator and former Bakkt CEO finally filed her financial disclosures after a four-month extension and an insider trading scandal, revealing that she is very rich indeed. Per her financial disclosures, filed the evening of May 1 after an extension in January, Loeffler’s assets are significant, as was her income as CEO of Bakkt. The…
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Former Bakkt CEO and Current US Senator Loeffler Sees 20% Approval Among Voters

Senator Kelly Loeffler, formerly CEO of Bakkt and currently a member of the task force to reopen the U.S., sees plummeting approval ratings. Per a new poll of Georgia republicans released on April 29, Senator Loeffler (R-GA) seems to have a rough road ahead of her en route to the special election later this year.…
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Former Bakkt CEO Appointed to Trump’s Task Force for Reopening the Economy

The former CEO of Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt, now a Republican senator for Georgia, has been rewarded with a new appointment despite recent controversies. The former CEO of Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt and a current Republican senator for Georgia, Kelly Loeffler, has been rewarded with a new appointment despite recent controversies. In a tweet published…
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Former Bakkt CEO to Sell All Holdings After Insider Trading Accusations

Former Bakkt CEO and Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler announced that she and her husband will liquidate all their holdings. Following major accusations of insider stock trading during the coronavirus-induced market crash, Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), the former CEO of Bakkt, is liquidating her holdings along with her husband. In an April 8 tweet, Loeffler said…
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Sen. Loeffler Rejects Accusations of Improper Trading

Senator and former Bakkt CEO, Kelly Loeffler, appeared on Fox today, defending her sale of shares the day after a private Senate hearing. Kelly Loeffler appeared on Fox News last night to discuss her sale of more than $1 million in equities the day after she attended a private Senate Health Commission hearing about the…
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Bakkt Announces New Direct Payment Integration with Starbucks

Starbucks mobile app users will soon be able to pay for their coffee and snacks using Bakkt Cash. A major digital asset platform is making it even easier to order that double espresso with an extra shot. Starbucks mobile app users will soon be given the option to pay for their drinks with “Bakkt Cash.”…
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Bakkt Closes New $300M Funding Round to Unlock $1 Trillion in Digital Assets

Major digital asset platform Bakkt has completed a new $300 million funding round, its second funding round after securing $182 million in late 2018. While cryptocurrency markets are experiencing another crash this Monday, major digital asset platform Bakkt has some good news. Referred to as one of the most promising crypto-related initiatives for its physically…
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Bakkt to the Senate: How Loeffler Became One of Crypto’s Most Influential

2019 saw the long-awaited launch of ICE’s digital assets platform, Bakkt. CEO Kelly Loeffler is now pursuing a career in the U.S. Senate. Since the 2017 mania, every year in the crypto and blockchain space has been increasingly eventful. 2019 was no exception: Along with Facebook’s Libra project and China’s digital yuan endeavors, Intercontinental Exchange’s…
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Five Crypto Relationships Worth Noting on Valentine’s Day

In the Senate, Loeffler will reportedly help oversee the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a potential conflict of interest given that her husband’s company is regulated by the CFTC. Today is Saint Valentine’s Day, and in honor of this most romantic of holidays, Cointelegraph presents five of the crypto community’s most notable unions and breakups…
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Most Active and Impactful Blockchain Companies from 2019 to 2020

The blockchain ecosystem has begun to grow beyond what people thought it’s capable of. Here’s the definitive list of the best contributors. Last year was an interesting one for blockchain and cryptocurrency, contrasting with past years in ways that go far beyond mere finance. It was a banner year for the maturation of the whole…
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