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6 Apr, 5 tweets, 6 min read
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ The Telegraph’s @Will_Kirkman writes of yet another of @theFCA’s made men in the infamous #PremierFX scandal(). PremierFX operated in the FCA’s notorious #Emoney/#API cesspit of #MoneyLaundering & fraud facilitation, but ...
2/ scratch the surface + as if #Wirecard’s fingerprints were not enough it’s the same familiar tale we saw in the #LCF scandal (+ many more) of the FCA not just asleep at the wheel, but actively turning a blind eye to multiple red flags. In the case of #PremierFX, ...
3/ the FCA astonishingly ignored #PremierFX itself reporting to the FCA that it had been fined by the Bank of Portugal for operating illegally. In yet another parallel to the damning Dame Gloster #LCF report lashing the FCA, we also saw in the PremierFX scandal the ...
4/ “Halo Effect” of a “FCA sticker” being used to trick punters in to believing that all of #PremierFX’s activities were #FCA authorised & regulated/#FSCS insured. Bank Of Portugal fine aside, if the FCA had even bothered to look at PremierFX’s website they couldn’t fail to ...
5/5 notice unauthorised activities taking place - more red flags missed + again a striking parallel to Dame Gloster’s scathing #LCF report on the FCA’s gross regulatory failure.

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@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ @TheFCA yet again in a short space of days released y/day yet another of its “saved up” press releases allowing it to waft its “extra special tickling stick”, censuring the notorious #PremierFX Ltd fca.org.uk/news/press-rel…. In contrast to the ... Image
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@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ As TheTimes/Guardian peddle the “play the man” spin-byte(in contrast to the Standard for eg), perhaps we should think about what Dame Gloster “DG” said about the FCA’s (FSA) impenetrable apparatchik fatcattery & it’s hundreds of thousands of victims.
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