I noted earlier that Nicholas Portocarrero was no longer a major shareholder of KCG since when I first looked into the investments I saw 617,777 shares.
1 day later, Nicholas is no longer listed as a major shareholder - and the last recorded trade on the site at this time (4:32 p.m., August 8th 2007) was done on July 30th:
July 30, 2007 Kayser Shu Buy 637
July 29, 2007 Lukeconnell Vandeverre Sell 100
July 28, 2007 Kayser Shu Buy 20
July 28, 2007 Lukeconnell Vandeverre Buy 27
July 28, 2007 Lukeconnell Vandeverre Buy 9
July 28, 2007 Lukeconnell Vandeverre Buy 1
July 28, 2007 Lukeconnell Vandeverre Buy 26
July 28, 2007 Lukeconnell Vandeverre Buy 19
July 28, 2007 Lukeconnell Vandeverre Buy 8
July 28, 2007 Lukeconnell Vandeverre Buy 1
This does not add up. Could this be a bug in the WSE software? It is possible, but it seems unlikely since the major shareholder list has obviously been updated: Nicholas Portocarrero is no longer listed.
But if we research Kavai Conglomerate Group, we find that Nicholas Portocarrero is a Non-Executive Director. Kavai Onizuka is the CEO, and Cenji Neutra is an Executive Director. So how does this relate?
Kavai Onizuka is the CFO of APZ... and Cenji Neutra is the CEO of APZ as well as the CTO of ACE - and ACE is linked to another bank through Tyrian Camillo (SL Investors Bank). That spreadsheet I made is certainly handy, though it may be out of date. It is a very tangled web, and may not be as transparent as Philip Linden thinks Ginko Financial is.
Funny thing - APZ doesn't appear to be open for trading since I created the spreadsheet, and there are no recent announcements from APZ - the last one being made on July 17th. And who are the major shareholders there? Here's the answer:
Cenji Neutra 17,674,990 98.31%
Intlibber Brautigan 104,080 0.58%
Skimi Mission 25,000 0.14%
Kingstocks Bellow 14,038 0.08%
Unga Pau 13,200 0.07%
Many trails lead back to Ginko, and Ginko and the WSE have a special relationship indeed.
The key question here is - what happened to those shares? That is extremely curious, and no answer that the WSE could possibly provide will reflect well upon the stock exchange. At best, it's a software bug - and at worst, it is trading that is happening outside of the public eye. The latter lends itself to serious questions.
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