RE: Contact about your shares16 Oct 2023 12:59
I had a live chat with a IG help desk agent today. I confronted them with Vincent Capone's email and Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company email that there is no delay at their end.
IG's response is:
"In regard to SMD, since we (and broker) were encountering delay on receiving information from SMD, we faced a delay on the event.
Now we have finally received the information and instructions for booking SMD, however, with Citi we’re having some issues on completing the bookings.
Our CA desk has raised this case as high priority to complete and we’re checking with Citi actively on the settlement."
So reading between the lines here, I think what has happened is that Citi have naked shorted the shares, and now can't give them, or are conspiring with other brokers and MMs protecting them by not giving the shares to rightful owners.
I think they may have got themselves into a catch-22. If they naked shorted more shares than are in public float, they have more shares to return than they can buy back so are unable to release all SMD MDAI shares all at once.
The ones who are losing out in all this are the SMD holders, as they are the ones whose shares are fail to deliver whilst the MMs and brokers play their game.
I hope this isn't going to drag on much longer.