The references to deals, plural, more likely to be jurisdictions rather than indications I suppose. 'Initiating' discussions from the RNS also ties into him heading off to the US.
So to be clear, NFTs, when you said 'If you know you know!' in relation to 'Alastair will have news for us soon. They are busy.' it was just an opinion and you don't 'know' anything?
If there have been discussions then she has likely elected not to adjust the internal systems to satisfy their requirements or not agree to the corresponding fee spike to pay for additional work.
It's the first audit she could have reasonably installed someone she knows anyway. It will be interesting to see who turns up.
HM also resigned in May 2019 when they transferred their trade into an LLP. It's potentially something on their side again - HM LLP transfers to HM Auditing LLP or something.
They're not a massive firm so if AR thinks we're about to speed up a switch might make sense.
TLDR - plenty of innocuous reasons for a resignation.
Thanks Soup. It is more likely to be the same tranche of shares being flipped isn't it? 10% of the shares can be traded over and over to create that image? Regardless, if someone starts buying in bulk off the market and not trading would the price not go up quite steeply?