Well, Alameda and FTX were founded by the same person. Up until very recently Sam was CEO of both companies at once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman

Well, Alameda and FTX were founded by the same person. Up until very recently Sam was CEO of both companies at once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried Edit: I suspect Alameda uses data from FTX but might not trade there: as per the article, the manipulation needs thin order books to work.