Institutional lending · Hong Kong / Singapore

Babel Finance

Institutional crypto lender that suspended redemptions and withdrawals on 17 June 2022, sought Singapore High Court moratorium protection in March 2023, and proceeded through a court-supervised scheme-of-arrangement process.

Also known as: Babel, Babel Finance Group, Babel Holding Limited, Moonalpha Financial Service Limited, Babel Asia Asset Management Private Limited

Status
Restructuring
Outcome
Claims ongoing
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-06-15
Launch2018-01-01
End
Failure reasonLiquidity crisis
Events6
Evidence10
Products2

Case summary

What happened

Babel Finance served institutional and high-net-worth clients through crypto lending, asset-management and prime-finance products. It suspended redemptions and withdrawals on 17 June 2022 while citing unusual liquidity pressures. After preliminary debt negotiations, five affiliated entities applied for Singapore moratorium protection on 6 March 2023. The High Court extended the moratoria on 17 April 2023, and on 24 November 2023 granted Babel Holding Limited leave to convene a creditors' meeting for a proposed scheme of arrangement. No reviewed authoritative source establishes completed restructuring, restored normal withdrawals or a final universal creditor recovery rate.

Customer result

Customer outcome

Claims ongoing

The High Court permitted a scheme creditors' meeting in November 2023, but leave to convene a meeting is not scheme sanction or completed distribution. Keep claims ongoing until an authoritative later source establishes final scheme effectiveness and distributions.

Estimated recovery
No final universal recovery rate is established in the reviewed company announcement or Singapore High Court judgments.
Repayment started
Repayment completed
Confidence
High

Claim or case process →

Asset treatment

Terms risk

Unknown

Unknown is retained deliberately. Product terms, contracting entity and claim basis may affect treatment under the scheme.

Affected product
Babel institutional lending, managed assets and prime-finance claims
Confidence
High

The Singapore court materials establish a group scheme and creditor-classification process, but they do not support one universal ownership or priority rule for every Babel lending, asset-management and prime-finance claim. The 2023 scheme judgment treated one contested trust or secured-claim theory as, at best, an unsecured personal claim, but that reasoning should not be generalized to all customers without product-specific documents.

Source: Re Babel Holding Ltd (Parastate Labs, Inc and others, non-parties) [2023] SGHC 329

Known unknowns

Uncertainty

The 2018 launch date remains approximate. Singapore court judgments establish the moratorium and scheme-meeting stages, but the reviewed record does not establish final scheme sanction, completed distributions, normal service restoration or one recovery percentage for all claim classes.

Chronology

Historical record

Restructuring startedHigh impact1 sources

Babel begins debt negotiations

Babel Finance said it had reached preliminary agreements on repayment periods for some debts and continued discussions with counterparties after the withdrawal halt.

Preliminary agreements did not restore normal withdrawals or complete restructuring.

Restructuring startedCritical impact2 sources

Babel entities seek Singapore moratorium protection

Five entities affiliated with the Babel Finance group filed applications in the Singapore High Court for moratorium protection under section 64 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.

The applications sought time to formulate a group restructuring through a scheme of arrangement.

OtherCritical impact2 sources

Singapore High Court extends Babel moratoria

The Singapore High Court granted extensions of the moratoria sought by the Babel Finance group entities and permitted the restructuring process to continue in Singapore.

Moratorium protection was procedural creditor protection, not completed restructuring or repayment.

OtherCritical impact2 sources

Court permits Babel scheme meeting

The Singapore High Court granted Babel Holding Limited leave to convene a meeting of scheme creditors to consider a proposed scheme of arrangement.

Leave to convene a scheme meeting did not itself establish scheme sanction or completed creditor distributions.

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