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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-6722367/Ruthless-credit-card-firms-starved-Flybe-50m.html50 million of income withheld.
So? So I won't be forced to sell my shareholding? I'd be happy to hold and carry a loss for a while until FlyBE gets its house in order. I didn't buy in purely on the basis of an expected buyout.
Thanks. mailed them now.
I'm at C1 proficiency level
Thanks for both the offers but my German is adequate to request what I need. They just don't want to service the request.
The broker simply will not engage with me and while my German may be adequate for small tasks it isn't a language in which I can write a sternly worded letter. I've complained to the regulator. I think I'm out. I rely on the regulator and that is an unenviable position.
The broker appears to hold the certificate of my shareholding which I bought in three separate tranches over a few days. I won't sell and hope other including the remaining institutional investors and other PIs can get the new Director elected.
thanks.
Directed at me or andyflares? what contracts. I just see the transaction history and a confirmation of shareholding for which I had to pay 5.90. If there is a phone number in flybe where I can go to let me know but I can't find one.
The hotline mentioned on flybe-shares.com was of absolutely no use to me. They could offer me no advice. Without an 11 digit IVC(Investor Code) I don't exist to them.
Me too, with my Broker.
They absolutely refuse to assist me in casting a vote.
They absolutely refuse to inform me of EGMs or communications from the company in which I'm invested.
I've complained to the local regulator but I've run out of options because apart from the balance showing on my screen in their share dealing console I've got absolutely no proof that I hold shares in FlyBE.
All I can do at the moment is hold my shares so that the consortium don't pick them up on the cheap and force the vote to accept 1p per share through at the EGM and don't let them vote against the election of the proposed Director.
Never again will I buy in to a share with a low market capitalization as Institutional Investors need to keep the BoD honest. Private Investors can't exercise their franchise.
I've lodged a complaint regarding AIB Merchant Banking Services with the Irish Financial Services Regulator which is part of the Central Bank but I don't expect much.
Ireland Finance market is like the wild west.
In the form it asked who else is affected I answered "All shareholders of FlyBE at the time that AIB Merchant Services began "gating" cash. Their shares collapsed in value overnight."
At that point I did a sanity check and realised that it is easier to sweep things under the carpet in Ireland than address them.
In other news my german share handler told me that they will not inform me of the EGM and that I must pay €5.90 to get confirmation of shareholding in order to vote. What's another €5.90 after loosing so much already.
Shareholders don't manoeuvre, they hold.
It is up to elected representatives to protect the interests of the shareholders.
I hold my shares through a German online broker. I see the vote proxy is available on https://www.flybe-shares.com/registrationI have no IVC number. I have nothing in my online broker inbox about being able to vote by proxy.I want to vote No to the 1p per share offer and I've only got 20 days left until the proxy vote submission window closes.
breaking NDAs by sharing information between bidders and approaching plane leasors should be enough to reverse the deal if the BoD can be ousted.There is hope for my penny shares yet.They'll be getting my vote if I can ever get a proxy for the EGM.
I'd still have voted in favour of the proposal by BoD as I'd never have expected they'd do what they did. I thought they'd act to maximise shareholder value.
Broker says ask FlyBE why they didn't inform the WM-datenbank.
It seems to be accepted that European company notices are published there. Maybe FlyBe did the bare statuatory minimum expected of them and no more. I don't know enough about this.
vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.
Wie bereits geschildert, wird die Datenbank vom Emittenten befüllt.
Gerne können Sie bei der Gesellschaft erfragen, warum diese keine Meldung über die WM-Datenbank vorgenommen hat.
Bei weiteren Fragen stehen wir Ihnen gerne zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ihr flatex-Serviceteam
It would require someone with better knowledge of the obligations of a listed company on the LSE and that isn't me or the customer service person in my broker, Flatex.de
What I've learnt from the whole episode is to in future steer clear of smaller listed shares without a large institutional investor presence because I can't trust the company to abide by laws and don't have the expertise to force them to abide by laws.
The databank is a third party:
https://www.wmdaten.de/index.php?mid=5
Seems fairly legitimate.
and the reply is:
they got no notifications for FlyBE in the databank of company announcements they use which is a bit of a fob-off but as FlyBE doesn't limit shareholding to UK residents then perhaps FlyBe should have tried to publicize this critical vote better.
Sehr geehrter XXXXXXXX,
vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.
Der WM-Datenservice, Frankfurt, (WM) bietet eine umfassende Finanz-Datenbank mit integrierten Daten/Informationen zu über 300.000 Finanzinstrumenten, die von der Kreditwirtschaft für die Abwicklung von Wertpapiergeschäften eingesetzt werden. Das Bundesministerium für Finanzen hat angeordnet, dass die Institute die von WM veröffentlichten Daten beim Kapitalsteuerabzug zu übernehmen haben.
Die WM-Datenbank wird mit den von den Emittenten (auch ausländische Emittenten) der Wertpapiere bereitgestellten Informationen gefüllt.
Zusätzlich werden die über die Lagerstellen übermittelten Informationen herangezogen.
Wir hoffen Ihnen weitergeholfen zu haben und stehen für weitere Fragen sehr gerne zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
I've mailed them in the trading app now.
you read this and you think they need flexibility to sell building or a chunk of the fleet, not that they want to sell absolutely everything and leave a bare shell of a company with no assets.
Am I naive or was I knowingly misled by scoundrels?
" Companies with a Standard Listing are not required to comply with the provisions of Chapter
10 of the Listing Rules in relation to Significant Transactions. Chapter 10 sets out
requirements for shareholders to be provided with certain details in respect of Significant
Transactions which exceed certain class test ratios and to approve certain larger Significant
Transactions which exceed certain class test ratios, commonly referred to as “class 2
transactions” and “class 1 transactions” respectively. Following the transfer to a Standard
Listing, the Company would be able to undertake “class 1 transactions” without seeking
shareholder approval (unless required for some other reason)."