$1 billion to Bankman-Fried. : Now-bankrupt trading house Alameda Research allegedly loaned $1 billion to co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried after he reportedly loaned the company billions from his other company, according to the company’s new CEO John J. Ray III in a Thursday court filing. The allegation comes one week after a report that Bankman-Fried had loaned $10 billion of client funds from crypto exchange FTX to Alameda Research when he was FTX’s CEO.