RE: Fun day ahead11 Apr 2022 11:40
I do hope that a serious debate with Gary and FCA AND shareholders happens but very far from convinced that an ASAG questonnaire is going to compel that. It looks like a student project. Sorry. In essence there are two sets of shareholders. 1, Set = Previous Management and Previous Institutions who applied a damaging aggressive strategy, awarded themselves with dividends and bonuses which were through improper conduct. 2. More recent retail investors who have been left with up to 95% capital destruction. Gary and the FCA are asking bucket number 2 to take the hit, even though these guys haven't made any gain whatsoever and are sat on eye popping losses. Bucket number 1. Are scot free and there are no mechanisms in place to claw back bonuses and dividends that were triggered through essentially what is tantamount to financial crime. And there you have at the heart our whole financial system on display in the microcosm of Amigo's story. I want this dilution blocked until there is a full dialogue with the FCA that answers the following.
1. What are you doing to claw back illegal payments (because that is what they are). 2. Why should any investor in their right minds back a model that you approve when you can legitimately move the goalposts further down the line. Essentially you can dissapprove your model and then do nothing to hold those individuals accountable?! What sort of Banana Republic is this exactly?! I think the FCA have a lot to answer for. 1. Why are you not pursuing "Approved Persons" who remarkably are still "Approved" to me a sign that nothing whatsoever has changed in the FCA mindset as to an acceptable standard of behaviour. 2. If you are above the law and can change the rules and backdate them, fully in the knowledge that you are punishing bucket 2 rather than bucket 1 of shareholders, how effective are you being to prevent the same cycle??? answer not at all as we know Human Nature never changes. I'd be happier using the money toward the raise and putting it toward a legal case against the FCA which should have happened in the first place. The whole cadence of our financial system encourages corruption with virtually no prosecutions, no claw-backs no disbarring etc. I love a fkin rant hahahah