Stolen from shareprophets6 Oct 2015 21:50
Reading through the Interims statement issued by AIM-listed (and now unsuspended after the formal appointment of Arden as the new Nomad) Cloudbuy (CBUY) a statement about the Australian operations caught my eye. The interims were released in mid-September, but refer to difficulties (and likelihood of termination) with the Aussie operations. But we have found evidence which suggests that this may have been well known to the company all the way back in early June. Is this why the former Nomad, Westhouse, resigned?
The salient section from the interims comes from the chairman’s statement:
In Australia, we continue to work closely with Visa Australia and three leading financial institutions. The first e-marketplace contract in Australia was awarded by NSW Service First in July 2014, in conjunction with Visa. Service First has since been out-sourced and all NSW Service First programs are under review, we have not been informed of the progress or results of the review but are assuming that it is not going ahead given the lack of feedback. This is disappointing since the private purchasing portal had been accepted and paid for and was at the point of going live and generating ongoing revenues when Service First was outsourced.
So in other words the Aussie deal appears to be dead, due to the out-sourcing of Service First by New South Wales. This is, of course, the first we had heard of this from Cloudbuy. The problem is that THIS was released by the New South Wales government back on 2 June 2015 – more than three months before Cloudbuy’s interims. It is a press release detailing the change of back-office arrangements by NSW, by outsourcing the Service First functions to Unisys and Infosys.
Was it Cloudbuy's tardiness in disclosing this development which persuaded Westhouse Securities to quit as Nomad upon publication of the interims?
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