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It seems that amongst the crony capitalists coining it in from the coke & hookers subsidy machine that is the AIM Casino this website is not terribly popular. I think we can take that as a vindication of what a good job we are doing. An AIM CEO emailed me to say - and I take this as praise indeed:
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Comments
Stuart Kaplan
“a drive to greater probity and requirement for due diligence”
This is the most telling phrase for me. For every fraud shareprophets catches in progress, there will be ten, maybe more, aborted between conception and birth.
In the absence of any meaningful regulation and proportionate sanction, all power to you. Quite literally.
Duck and Dive
Well said that man. Shirley he should be named?
Reuben Bear
Name and shame this curb crawler at once
Drunken Sailor
One or two comments like this make the thousands of pizza boy and Rivington comments pale into insignificance. Hopefully good CEOs and those who are now striving to be better CEOs will see the reward in terms of being able to raise money for their companies ahead of the bad CEOs and those who can’t or won’t mend their ways.
Jug Jugette
But why the “around town” in parentheses? Is this a euphemism for something unspeakable in the Gents?
TW Note he means "In the City"filthy lucre
I would not invest in a company where the CEO expresses himself so poorly.
‘Around Town’ = Ramsgate? What is he going on about? It’s Gobbledygook.
Name and shame.
Drunken Sailor
Filthy,
I am sure said CEO will be very relieved not to have a moron like you as a shareholder. The phrase “around town” is well understood by people in financial services. As the phase was used in an e-mail to someone who would understand it and not in a public statement, there is no real issue.
I must question the judgement of a CEO who has just seen his temporary appointment made permanent and has stated one of his objectives is:
“Improve communication to aid stakeholders’ understanding of operations” and to this end “The Company has appointed Instinctif Partners as PR Advisors. As a first step towards better communication”
And also states that:
“The Company’s Strategic Objective
The Company will invest and operate in niche or complementary small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) lending verticals where we can secure enduring competitive positions and take advantage of the disintermediation of lending by banks to SMEs.”
What the fuck does that mean? FFS if you are going to employ a new PR man, in this case Tim Linacre, then get one who can write a strategic objective, which is a strategic objective and not just a statement of how you intend to do business AND is in plain English.