Melvin has made money the past couple of months shorting stocks again, they must be ok to start paying citadel back. Citadel wouldn’t want them to be in danger of being margin called cause it kills them as well in the endIt says in the same article that Melvin lost 49% on its investments during the first three months of 2021. So it doesn’t seem like Melvin is in better financial shape to better be able to pay them back now.
My read into it is that Citadel is needing the extra capital in preparation for the ruling coming into play regarding required assets in relations to outstanding options.
But I could easily be wrong just throwing out my guess. Not an expert by any means.