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The company was the subject of an initial public offering in October 2015. [4] In July 2017 it announced the acquisition of the share registration business of Wells Fargo. [5] On 30 July 2020, the company announced its intention to rebrand as "EQ". [6] In April 2021 Siris Capital made an offer worth £661 million for the company. [7]
The company was unprofitable in that year, [5] and by July 2001 its share price had fallen below 25 pence after reaching 415p in March 2000, during the dot-com bubble. [6] Later in 2001, Australian financial services group AMP [ 7 ] bought Interactive Investor for a little over £50m, and its investment platform was merged into AMP's Ample brand.
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According to the company's December 31, 2010, form 10-Q (filed within months of the direct mail promotion), LEXG was a lithium company without assets. Its revenues and assets at that time were zero. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Subsequently, the company did acquire lithium production/exploration properties, and addressed concerns raised in the press.
The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008. [1] In December of that year, Bernie Madoff, the former Nasdaq chairman and founder of the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, admitted that the wealth management arm of his business was an elaborate multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
Many penny stocks, particularly those that trade for fractions of a cent, are thinly traded.They can become the target of stock promoters and manipulators. [6] These manipulators first purchase large quantities of stock, then drive up the share price through false and misleading positive statements; they then sell their shares at a large profit.
At that point, Invest-Consulting, one of the company's subsidiaries, owed more than 50 billion rubles in taxes (US$23 billion in 1994), and MMM itself owed between 100 billion and 3 trillion rubles to the investors (from US$50 million to US$1.5 billion). MMM shares fell from 115,000 rubles to 1,000 rubles. [15]