CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the Synapse fintech predicament, people who are owed sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.

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    9 days ago

    Isn’t that what they signed up for when they put their money in a nonFDIC insured account?

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      9 days ago

      They changed to a cash sweep / brokerage model (not FDIC-insured at the individual account holder level) like 6 months before the bankruptcy. End users had to click a consent checkbox or the like and probably thought nothing of it.

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        9 days ago

        That changes everything. That’s dirty pool, shouldn’t have been allowed by SEC/Fed or who ever their regulator was