15 days ago
The FCA is charged with tackling financial crime and also regulating the Standard List of the Main market. I have written to it regarding a company once backed by David Beckham, Cellular Goods (CBX) where there appear massive possible issues on BOTH counts. If it fails to act on both matters it sends a signal that it is officially a complete joke and that on London’s financial markets anything goes. The letter is below:
59 days ago
I am a bit of a Chill Brands (CHLL) groupie and have been ever since it was Zoetic (ZOE). That does not make me a fan. I published a massive bear dossier when the shares were 76p and, despite my colleagues, a friend and me facing active harassment from a paid thug, have been bearish ever since. The shares are now 3.45p. Yesterday afternoon something really weird happened.
172 days ago
I have already highlighted issues such as the joke valuation methodology and the lack of IFRS Compliance which the clowns at the FCA seem to have missed. RegTech Open (RTOP) underwent a direct listing which meant that it didn’t have a broker scrutinising its Prospectus nor undertake any marketing on its behalf and it really shows, a few more errors for the FCA to consider, follow.
259 days ago
Yesterday Iconic (ICON) announced that it had issued its long-awaited Prospectus which resulted in a 40% spike in its share price as punters piled. The Prospectus was not instantly available but now that it is Iconic share price has already dropped back 18% at the time of writing this article.
265 days ago
Last week Caracal Gold (GCAT) gave an update for investors where, natch, it did not give us key metrics such as the (lack of ) cash position. It did, however update, us on the position re getting FCA approval for a prospectus which would allow it to issue gazillions more shares so diluting mug punters to buggery. “The company submitted the first draft of the prospectus to the FCA for approval on 18 April 2023. The company is working with its advisers to seek approval of the prospectus by the FCA and will update the market in due course.”
265 days ago
Since I wrote about Iconic (ICON) on 1 April 2023 discussing its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2022 “Iconic Labs – an insolvent shell company needing to get an FCA approved Prospectus published and to issue bucket loads more confetti to survive” not much has changed. In fact….
280 days ago
As I found out to my cost, anyone who questions the bull case for Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) will be threatened by its thuggish boss Lonny “the prick” Baumgardner. Lonny, whose company will do anything to avoid issuing a prospectus, as it raises cash again and again and again, is at it again. You have been warned:, those chaps at Predator don’t like it up ‘em.
291 days ago
Having got shares in its bastard little brother Eight Capital Partners (ECP) suspended this morning it is time to turn to the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) whose shares should also be suspended, in this case, pending clarification of its financial position. It may be capitalised at £79 million at 0.129p but technically it is bust.
340 days ago
An insider dealing director, directors who troll journalists on twitter or who threaten critics, these are never good signs. But worse is the determination of Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) to avoid issuing a prospectus when issuing shares. For the second time it has found a loophole to dodge making disclosures. Just what is the company hiding?
404 days ago
I pointed out a few weeks ago that Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) run by the troll Lonny Baumgardener and the share dealing just ahead of a placing whizz Paul Griffiths was pumping its shares ahead of an inevitable discounted bailout placing. Call me Mystic fecking Meg. So today Predator has raised £2 million at just 5.5p. But this is not just a straight placing. It stinks. With a hat tip to Evil Banksta let me explain.
445 days ago
Why on earth did the FCA approve the Standard List prospectus of Zamaz (ZAMZ), the new dog created by Dominic White of the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) infamy. The £77 million valuation was a joke as I explained HERE. But more importantly, we can now say that almost nothing in that document was real.
542 days ago
In today’s podcast I look at Cineworld (CINE), Ocado (OCDO), Versarien (VRS), Rosslyn Data (RDT) – going right back to its fraudulent prospectus c.o Cenkos – and Westminster Group (WSG) where the curse of Baldry of the fraud 3DM infamy strikes yet again. Talking of vile Tory MPs, I mention Matt Hancock at the end. At least with Baldry his fingers were only in the pork barrel.
561 days ago
After my earlier note on the howlers in the Supply@ME Capital (SYME) Prospectus signed off by the poltroons at the FCA, I can now reveal that there are even more compliance related blunders in the Prospectus.
561 days ago
The FCA must approve any prospectus for the Standard List and it has approved that for the fraud Supply@ME Capital (SYME) so allowing it to issue more of its worthless shares. At a proper regulator heads would roll for these massive blunders.
859 days ago
Alpha Growth Plc (ALGW) has finally had FCA approval of its Prospectus for the Placing that occurred 10 months ago in February 2021. The FCA is supposed to ensure that any Prospectus issued complies with the rules but it is apparent from a quick read that the Prospectus has not been properly updated throughout the document as many of the references are considerably out of date. It looks like someone at the FCA just wanted to remove the Prospectus from his or her to do list prior to the Christmas holidays rather than subject the document to appropriate and proper scrutiny or perhaps it was simply signed off after a long Christmas lunch. I cite below some examples of where the document hasn’t been properly updated.
859 days ago
The FCA has approved the prospectus as you can see HERE. But there is no RNS from Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) . How odd. This is the last hurdle before production and so should drive a major re-rate. FYB.
881 days ago
Sales are vanity, profit is a matter of opinion and cash is reality. That is a message that Dev Clever (DEV) seems to ignore as it served up a trading statement to accompany news that the FCA was dragging its heels on approving a prospectus as noted HERE. But what of the trading statement? Natch Dev jerks off about its sales in the year to November 30.
881 days ago
On 12 April Dev Clever (DEV) a company already drowning in red flags exposed on this website announced the £54.75 million all share purchase of VLPL in India and we were told that “This acquisition of VLPL will be subject to the publication of an FCA approved prospectus by no later than 30 September 2021. An additional 30 million ordinary shares will be granted to VLPL CEO, Ankur Aggarwal, as an earnout consideration subject to achieving key milestones.” Wind forward to 30 September and…
920 days ago
Almost seven months after its acquisition of Providence Life Assurance Company Limited which was announced on 11 February and completed on 23 March 2021, Alpha Growth (ALGW) still hasn’t managed to issue its Prospectus to permit the trading of the 187,500,000 placing shares issued on 15 March 2021 to fund the acquisition. This hardly inspires confidence that the enlarged group has the appropriate financial reporting expertise and resources appropriate to run its business which now includes a Bermudian regulated business.
991 days ago
I first commented about Alpha Growth (ALGW) on 8 April 2021 and the absence of a Prospectus in respect of its issue on 8 March 2021 via a placing of 187,500,000 shares at 2 pence per share. The placing represented over 77.8% of existing ordinary share capital of Alpha prior to the placing. The broker which organised the placing was Pello Capital which, as of Friday, is operating under restrictions imposed by the FCA, that is to say it cannot write any business at all other than allowing clients to transfer out cash and shares to other brokers.
1027 days ago
If you were not convinced that Supply@ME Capital (SYME) was a con by my analysis of yesterday’s results HERE, how about a second dose? We already know that the March 2020 Prospectus for Supply contained materially inaccurate financial information in respect of the balance sheet because it stated that the unaudited proforma statements of net assets were £226 million which included £224 million of intangible assets. In the interim accounts for the period ended 30 June 2020, shareholders discovered that there were only £1 million of net assets which included intangible assets of £1 million caused by an incorrect accounting treatment adopted in the Proforma Financial Information. But we now know it is even worse.
2660 days ago
Cynical Bear has written a fascinating article today on Simian Global (SMG) - HERE. Cynical Bear you are a wuss. You are far too generous about this crock of Turkish. If one goes to the prospectus and then cross references with companies house you will find a story of true horrors, something that the prospectus fails to mention, indeed it deliberately gives you a completely different impression. This prospectus stains all involved with it ( directors Edward Ng and Ajay Rajpal, Peterhouse Corporate Finance, Edwin Coe and the UKLA) with complete shame. How on earth do these folks sleep at night? My target price for the shares is 0p.
