Scientist, Accountant, Financier - brought text messaging to the world at SEMA, text M-commerce/banking at MILLICOM & opened up CEE/FSU at CET
2/ In 06/2017 #OnlineGambling op #GVC Holdings Plc (f/k/a #Entain) announced the completion of the sale of it’s ‘controversial’ in house #FCA auth. payment processing & card issuing group: ‘#Kalixa Group’ (f/k/a ‘#CQR Group’) that came in #GVC’s acquisition of ‘controversial’ #OnlineGambling op #BWIN.Party.
2/ ‘Burkhard Ley’ was a bank clerk at a German savings bank (1982-8) before joining the now notorious #SalOppenheim private bank (1988-2000), rising to its director of corporate Finance. #SalOppenheim, was one of Europe’s biggest & most conservative private banks, interacting … 
2/ #RationalFX collapsed in to insolvency a few days ago, it’s long term (since 2013 y/end) auditor (#CLAEvelynPartners) signed off it’s last (UNqualified) 2022 y/end audited accounts on 23/03/2023 this year - in the background, the dual ‘red flags’ of: an extended (18 month) … 
2/ "#29Leaks": in 2019, hacker linked group ‘Distributed Denial of Secrets’ leaked to the media >130GB of data incl. millions of emails, documents, passport copies & bank statements allegedly from #FormationsHouse’ servers, detailing amongst other things it’s clienteles’ japery. 
2/ #Entain listed on #AIM (a cesspit of illegal gambling & associated payment processing ops, presided over by New Labour & it’s now Lords of #OnlineGambling) in 2004 as Gaming VC Holdings SA - a Luxembourg SPV/#KPMG Lux audited op before switching to #GrantThornton Lux in 2008.
2/ A day is a long time in the crypto-crappery as the hand-bagging at #nChain resulted overnight in #nChain’s CEO & ~half of the directors dropping off the website. The multi-$bn fallout amongst the crypto bros over ‘who is really #Satoshi ?’ & the #Bitcoin ‘hard fork’ continues. 
2/ At the heart of the dispute according to #WorldPay is an ‘online cosmetics op’ (+ associated ops) #24Beauty (reportedly signed up via a reseller to ‘#UnicornPayment’), whose transactions #WorldPay reportedly had ‘concerns about the "genuineness" of’.
2/ before the return of Shaun Wills in 2021, a former SuperSpry Superdry CFO guy, who left under a cloud (reportedly personal bankruptcy) in 2015. “… Shaun emerged as the outstanding candidate for the role” Superdry chief executive Julian Dunkerton reportedly said. 
2/ Luceco IPO’d on LSE in 10/2016 (130p : £210m mkt cap). Luceco’s long term auditor KPMG ‘triple dipped’ as auditor plus tax & IPO transaction services. Saddled up at Luceco as independent non-exec/on audit committee: Tim Surridge, former partner at KPMG transaction services. 
2/ #Revolut published it’s 2021 audited accounts 5 months after they were originally required to be filed & 2 months after an extension to the deadline had expired. Revolut’s lawyers Schillings said there were "a range of views on the meaning of the qualified opinion". 
2/ (cityam.com/home-reit-face…). A week earlier it was reported that #HomeReit’s ‘investment adviser’ (‘Alvarium’) had (prior to its #SPAC merger) spun out the unit ‘advising’ #HomeReit (‘Alvarium Home REIT Advisors Ltd’) allegedly to a newly created shell, … 
2/ Yesterday it reportedly emerged that Macfarlanes had discovered Revolution made "unacceptable" loans to senior managers, requested distributors book orders worth £9m to meet y/end financial targets + failed to consider key info. when acquiring a company owned by its chairman. 
2/ UK’s blind eyed financial regulator (@TheFCA, formerly #FSA) in 12/2012, following implementation of the 2011 #Emoney regulations: Checkout’s website would follow months later. The FCA’s ‘#Emoney scene’ has been long covered by a thick ‘FCA fog’ which scandal … 
2/ Unsurprisingly for this type of business the ‘old chestnuts’ of y/end cash & supplier rebates reared their heads. A whistleblower reportedly ‘identified issues’ at its UK insulation & interiors subsidiary: ‘SIG Distribution’. KMPG were reportedly brought in to investigate.
2/ offshore fund (+ its associated ‘fund manager’ - Tangerine Investment Management’ - “#Tangerine”), purportedly providing litigation finance to small UK solicitors firms for low value high volume claims. It was peddled to the UK public & expats widely by a large web of … 
