Robert Smith
@BondHack
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@FT Corporate Finance Editor. Not posting here anymore, still checking DMs. Have a tip? Contact me: [email protected] / [email protected]
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Joined February 2015
š„ A BRUTAL MURDER, A FATAL PLANE CRASH AND A BILLION DOLLAR SCANDAL š„. Bruno Crastes triumphed over adversity to become one of the most gifted investors of his generation. Why did he blow up his career betting on the notorious financier Lars Windhorst?
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Bruno Crastes was one of the most gifted fund managers of his generation. Why did he bet so much on the notorious Lars Windhorst?
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Tweeting about it did the trick. Thanks again to everyone who reported. I guess making it so the most efficient way to suspend imposters is to tweet about them is one way to lure back lapsed usersā¦. So see you on here next time I have a crypto clone!
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Thanks to all the many people who have got in touch to flag this over the past couple of weeks. Maybe if people keep reporting it eventually it'll get zapped š¤Ŗ. And if you miss my tweets, you can find me elsewhere š¦.
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Unfortunately you can no longer file impersonation reports on here without sending a photo of your drivers licence to Israeli cybersecurity company AU10TIX, which I'm loath to do after this report from @josephfcox of @404mediaco. Wotta platform! .
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As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.
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Breaking my X hiatus to warn folk that @Bond_Hack is impersonating me to push scammy crypto shit in DMs. Screenshot of its nonsense below. If only there was some sort of verification system for prominent accounts on here, so users could easily tell if it's the real deal or not!
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RT @AlphaBetaBlogFR: .@cynthiao et @bondhack ont rĆ©vĆ©lĆ© le #H2Ogate en juin 2019. 5 ans aprĆØs, la FCA obtient de #H2OAM le remboursement deā¦.
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Regulator criticises āfalseā statements, lax due diligence and failing to declare hospitality including use of a superyacht
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Also worth noticing that some of those superyacht/private jet trips and š exchanges between H2O's Bruno Crastes and Windhorst will be no surprise to those who read our FT Weekend Magazine cover feature on the affair earlier this year.
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Story updated with some of the gory detail from the FCA notice. Also includes reaction from Collectif Porteurs H2O, a group of investors suing H2O for damages, which describes the level of reimbursement of "shocking" and absence of a fine "astonishing".
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RT @ArashMassoudi: H2O Asset Management to pay investors ā¬250mn after FCA finds āserious breachesā via @FT. After Years of digging by the bā¦.
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Regulator criticises āfalseā statements, lax due diligence and failing to declare hospitality including use of a superyacht
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First take here. Notably, the FCA said that H2O provided it withĀ āfalse and misleading statements and documentationā including āfabricated records and minutes of meetingsā.
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[FREE TO READ] Regulator criticises āfalseā statements, lax due diligence and failing to declare hospitality including use of a superyacht
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Over five years after @cynthiao and I first raised the alarm on H2O Asset Management's illiquid investments, the firm has agreedĀ to pay ā¬250mn toĀ investors after the UK's Financial Conduct Authority found it committed "serious breaches". full story to come. .
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RT @ArashMassoudi: Reminder: JPMorgan Chase parted ways w/ their chief markets strategist Marko Kolanovic after 19 years, roughly a month aā¦.
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Top analyst leaves US bank after bearish forecasts on S&P 500
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RT @ArashMassoudi: āTheyāve really been trying to be this respected investorā in Europe, said one person who has worked with Mubadala. āItāā¦.
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Executives at Abu Dhabiās $300bn fund lead restructurings and management changes as valuations sink
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RT @PjotrSauer: EVAN IS FREE!!! Thank you to everyone who made this happen, who supported Evan and his family over the last 491 days. We haā¦.
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and another thing: Billās not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that Bill got mad.
@TartCranberry1 I made the decision to withdraw the IPO this morning when I came up with a better transaction structure. The press reports from last week saying that we were cancelling and/or postponing were false at the time they were written. We were scheduled to price the offering this coming.
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āUK Takeover Panel issues its most serious sanction: a cold shoulderā. Great headline, even better story from @IvanLevingston & @JosephineCumbo .
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Cityās merger watchdog formally ostracises 10 dealmakers for misleading market more than a decade ago
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RT @BondHack: One's a former business "wunderkind" with bankruptcies, lawsuits and brushes with the law behind him. The other's the scionā¦.
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Scion of Rothschild financial dynasty joins investment firm as executive chair and takes minority stake
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