Employees unable to locate or access $190 million in cryptocurrency

A number of media outlets (including the Halifax Chronicle Herald, the CBC and CNN) are reporting that Vancouver-based cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX has filed for creditor protection in Nova Scotia after the death of the company’s founder, CEO and sole director. The company, it is reported, was already facing liquidity challenges when early last year CIBC froze $25.7 million of its funds that were held in the account of a third-party processor. The founder’s death, it appears, has left the remaining employees unable to locate or access $190 million of customer’s funds. Its filings in the Nova Scotia court indicate that the company owes 115,000 customers about $250 million in cash and cryptocurrency.