2022年经济学人 FTX创始人在巴哈马被捕

（单词翻译）

The world this week--Business

本周国际要闻--商业

America’s Justice Department charged Sam Bankman-Fried with fraud, money-laundering¹ and violating campaign-finance laws in relation to the collapse² of FTX, a crypto exchange.

美国司法部指控山姆·班克曼-弗里德涉嫌欺诈和洗钱，指控他违反竞选筹款法，而这与加密货币交易所FTX倒闭有关。

He was arrested in the Bahamas, where FTX is based.

他在FTX总部所在的巴哈马被捕。

The department said that FTX’s “phenomenal downfall” was not a case of mismanagement, but instead one “of intentional³ fraud, plain and simple”.

美国司法部表示，FTX的“突然倒闭”并不是因为管理不善，而是因为“蓄意欺诈，显而易见”。

It alleges⁴ that Mr Bankman-Fried misappropriated FTX’s money for personal use, to repay debts owed by his hedge fund, Alameda, and to give millions to political candidates.

美国司法部指控称，班克曼-弗里德挪用FTX的资金供个人使用，将资金用于偿还其对冲基金Alameda所欠的债务，以及向政治候选人提供数百万美元。

It is a spectacular fall from grace for a man who had been lauded⁵ for his “effective altruism”.

对于一个曾被赞誉为“有效利他主义”的人来说，这是莫大的堕落。

Meanwhile the pressure increased on Binance, a rival crypto exchange to FTX, following a run of withdrawals⁶ from its business.

与此同时，在一系列取款业务后，FTX的竞争对手Binance面临的压力有所增加。

Nansen, a blockchain analytics firm, said that Binance had seen net outflows of as much as $3bn over 24 hours.

区块链分析公司Nansen表示，Binance在24小时内出现了高达30亿美元的净流出。

It was a busy week for the Justice Department, which also announced that Danske Bank had pleaded guilty to defrauding⁷ American banks by lying about its “deficient anti-money laundering systems”.

对美国司法部来说，这是忙碌的一周。司法部还宣布丹斯克银行已承认通过谎报其“有缺陷的反洗钱系统”来欺诈美国银行。

Danske, Denmark’s largest bank, processed suspect transactions worth $160bn from its branch in Estonia through American banks.

丹麦最大银行丹斯克银行通过美国银行处理了其爱沙尼亚分行价值1600亿美元的可疑交易。

Much of the money came from Russia. Danske is to pay $2bn in fines.

大部分资金来自俄罗斯。丹斯克银行将支付20亿美元的罚款。

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, taking it to a target range of 4.25% to 4.5%.

美国联邦储备委员会将基准利率上调了0.5个百分点，将其目标区间提高至4.25% - 4.5%。

The half-point increase follows four consecutive⁸ rises of three-quarters of a percentage point.

这次0.5个百分点的加息发生在连续4次加息0.75个百分点之后。

The central bank has eased the pace of tightening⁹ as it balances the need to tame soaring consumer prices with ensuring that the economy is not plunged¹⁰ into a recession.

美国央行已经放缓了收紧的步伐，一方面要抑制不断飙升的消费者价格，另一方面又要确保经济不会陷入衰退。

November’s inflation figure helped steer¹¹ the Fed’s decision.

11月的通胀数据有助于引导美联储的决策。

The annual rate, as measured by consumer prices, dropped to 7.1% from 7.7% in October, the lowest it has been all year, but still well above the average of 2.1% in the three years before covid-19.

以消费者价格指数衡量的年利率从10月份的7.7%降至7.1%，为全年最低水平，但仍远高于新冠肺炎前三年2.1%的平均水平。

In Britain inflation fell to 10.7%, though the cost of alcohol in pubs and restaurants increased, just in time for Christmas.

英国通货膨胀率降至10.7%，尽管在圣诞节期间，酒吧和餐馆的酒水价格有所上涨。

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to continue with plans that would introduce the biggest shake-up to America’s stockmarket rules in a generation.

美国证券交易委员会投票决定继续实施多项计划，这些计划将对美国股市规则进行二三十年以来最大的改革。