Optimal payments (#OPAY) admits that it too has suffered customer data breaches
- 2015-10-29 00:32:22
UK 21:33 Wednesday, 23 September 2026
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If you want me to analyse a stock for you just drop me a line at sqmir@hotmail.com - Today I look at shares in Avanti Communications (AVN), Lonmin (LMI), Optimal Payments (OPAY) and set share price targets for all three.
Matt Earl, the Dark Destroyer, posted this on hs own website two weeks ago. It is a compelling reason to short Optimal Payments (OPAY). It is not historic numbers but future earnings you should focus on. Matt writes: Pursuant to the latest crackdown (see below) by Chinese authorities on online gambling, I've sold short in OPAY the online and mobile payments processor
Shares in online payments technology and services company Optimal Payments (OPAY) have responded positively to the acquisition of Skrill Group – announced in March and completed earlier this month. This has seen the currently AIM-listed company continuing to talk of intended FTSE-250 entrance, but may there be trouble ahead?
From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following details the shorted AIM shares (by net short position %) and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since a previous analysis HERE…
Last year Optimal Payments (OPAY) was forced to come (semi) clean over a loan package between its CEO, Mr Joel Leonoff, and Equities First Holdings LLC (EFH). Optimal originally told that market on 1 April 2014 that Mr Leonoff had pledged 1.5 million shares in the company as collateral for a loan of approx. £4m, but failed to mention a few details such as the non-recourse nature of the package and that EFH was free just to dump the stock into the market. This did not become clear until it was exposed on ShareProphets last autumn and resulted in a number of clarifications from Optimal, along with AIM-listed Igas (IGAS), Cloudbuy (CBUY), Quindell (QPP), IQE (IQE) and Angle (AGL).
If you want me to analyse a stock for you just drop me a line at sqmir@hotmail.com - Today I look at Auto Trader, Distil, Optimal Payments.
Although charting cannot be regarded as an exact science even at the best of times it can be seen on the daily chart of Optimal Payments at the moment we have one of the better setups on our hands.
From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following details the shorted AIM shares (by net short position %) and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since a previous analysis HERE…
From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following details the 20 highest single net short positions and the changes (red if short increased, green if reduced) since a previous analysis HERE.
From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following details the shorted AIM shares (by net short position %) and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since a previous analysis HERE…
From the FCA's spreadsheet of short positions required to be disclosed to it, the following details the shorted AIM shares (by net short position %) and if this position has increased (red), reduced (green) or remained unchanged (black) since a previous analysis HERE…
The latest shocking revelations from Tom Winnifrith (HERE) made it clear that EFH has indeed dumped all of the 2.25 million shares transferred to it by Cloudbuy Chairman Mr Ronald Duncan. There are serious implications for Optimal Payments (OPAY) and its forthcoming rights issue, as well as the acquisition classed as a reverse takeover announced earlier this week.
Optimal Payments (OPAY) - of Equities First Holdings LLC infamy (see HERE) – has announced a proposed purportedly “transformational and value enhancing” $1.2 billion acquisition of Skrill Group - described as “one of Europe's leading digital payments businesses providing digital wallet solutions and online payment processing capabilities and is one of the largest pre-paid online voucher providers in Europe with its paysafecard brand”. Does this though transform the investment proposition here? …
