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[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

IMPORTANT!

The link below takes you to a Press Statement by the APPG on Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services entitled:

“WHISTLEBLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD UNITE IN THEIR CONDEMNATION OF THE UK’S FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY”

As you’ll see, it has an accompanying anthology.

As far as we know this is the first time whistleblowers around the world have spoken out together on behalf of a fellow whistleblower who has fallen.

They are speaking out against @TheFCA's decision to not move forward with a proper independent 3rd party investigation into their handling of the whistleblowing of Simon Andriesz R.I.P., and a wider systemic review of how they have dealt with other whistleblowers.

Instead, @TheFCA just wants to do a narrow, ‘mark their own homework’ exercise, which has caused outrage in some quarters.

You can access the press statement and accompanying anthology through this link:

https://t.co/oOEHIlwQuY

Please do all you can share this important message.

And huge thanks to everybody involved in the press statement and anthology:

✅ John McDonnell MP: @johnmcdonnellMP
United Kingdom

✅ John Robertson: @J_Robertson_UK
United Kingdom

✅ Pav Gill Singapore

✅ Hester Bais: @Wftproof
Netherlands

✅ Brendan Lyon: @lyon_brendan
Australia

✅ George Patellis
United States

✅ Everett Stern: @EverettStern1
United States

✅ Tom Hayes: @robilypj
United Kingdom

✅ Wayne Johncock: @johncock_wayne
United Kingdom

✅ James E. Miller
United States

✅ Reggie de Jong
The Netherlands

✅ John Christmas
Country not specified

✅ Ahmed Latif
United Kingdom

✅ Paul Carlier: @Carlier_J87
United Kingdom

✅ Mark Wright: @BankConfidenti1
United Kingdom

✅ Steve Middleton: @stevemiddi1
United Kingdom

✅ Ian Tyler
United Kingdom

✅ Lorraine Morris: @MLorrM
Ireland

✅ Jeremy Roseberry: @jeremyroseberry
United States

✅ Jacques Richard
Country not specified

✅ Jesse Griffiths: @JesseLGriffiths
United Kingdom

✅ Professor Richard Moorhead OBE
United Kingdom and Australia

✅ Jimmy Kande Senegal

✅ Ken Kivenko Canada

✅ Jean-Jacques Lumumba: @LUMUMBAJj
Democratic Republic of the Congo

✅ Ian Foxley: @ianfoxley
United Kingdom

✅ Dr. Agris Auce
Latvia

✅Wayne Johncock: @johncock_wayne
United Kingdom

✅James E. Miller
United States

✅Reggie de Jong
The Netherlands

✅John Christmas Country not specified

We are all very grateful to everybody who has been working together to help @SAndriesz speak up, now that he can no longer do so himself.

Thank you!

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🗞️ Serious Fraud Office plans US-style cash rewards for whistleblowers 👇

https://t.co/VQiHNTNAcr

@jameshurley

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🗞️ The lives ruined by the City’s ‘Post Office moment’ 👇

https://t.co/r80EjCssLb

@jameshurley

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🗞️ SFO’s ex-boss told to hand back knighthood as Libor cases quashed 👇

https://t.co/033HsSD4G5

@jameshurley

[JR @J_Robertson_UK]

🔴 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 | 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄: 𝟕𝐏𝐌 𝐔𝐊 | 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄

Due to the level of interest and demand surrounding my upcoming interview with former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou, we've brought the live broadcast forward to 7pm UK time tomorrow, Wednesday 21 October.

John exposed the CIA's torture programme and subsequently went to prison. He knows first-hand what happens when an individual challenges the power of the state.

We'll be discussing whistleblower retaliation, the weaponisation of legal processes, institutional accountability and the extraordinary personal price people can pay for speaking the truth.

We'll also be examining the treatment of whistleblowers on both sides of the Atlantic, including the questions arising from the tragic death of Simon Andriesz.

𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐃𝐈𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒. 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.

Who holds powerful institutions accountable when the people exposing wrongdoing become the targets?

📅 Wednesday 21 October
🔴 LIVE at 7pm UK | 2pm New York | 11am Los Angeles

📺 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇

To watch the interview live tomorrow, visit the RT programme schedule using the link below and select the live broadcast at 7pm UK time.

https://t.co/FvUeYHTAP2

I hope you'll join us.

#Whistleblowing #JohnKiriakou #CIA #Accountability #SimonAndriesz

[Hester Bais @Wftproof]

“Hester Bais, a Dutch lawyer and whistleblower who has exposed large-scale banking fraud involving interest-rate derivatives, added: “The proposal for just an internal FCA review troubles me deeply. The FCA’s proposal sends entirely the wrong signal. If a regulator can investigate itself whenever its own treatment of a whistleblower is questioned, then where does the whistleblower go when things have gone disastrously wrong?””

https://t.co/hbW3bbBJUr

[stephen middleton @stevemiddi1]

Trying to expose these things & trying to support/ help people being turned over by banks is not a mission its just what you're faced with if you understand the Rules & how properly employing them can protect people.

The very Rules @TheFCA & their predecessors wrote to protect consumers.

Surely they should respect the fact I do understand them & apply them for the protection of vulnerable people.

But no, instead I am seen by @TheFCA as an enemy, their vindictive actions ended my career, I can live with that I built a new one, I'm not a great businessman but I am an entrepreneur I'll always find a way to make a living. If I have to sweep a street to pay the bills I will.

The point was simple, I have a business, I have a career but when I'm at 7 days a week trying to support vulnerable people, I was exhausted, just asking for help.

I'm still at that level, but dealing every day with people in such distress takes its toll. People say take it easier don't take too much on.

I say give me 10 requests where vulnerable/ suicidal people are in danger of losing their businesses, homes, marriages, family's & sanity tell me which 5 I should ignore and which 5 I should help because I have the time.

I simply asked @TheFCA for help' I asked them to do their job, so I don't have to write off all the spare time in my life doing it for them.

I'm still asking that because I want/ need a life back but in the interim some of us will keep trying to get SMEs/ consumers justice regardless.

But I di not expect this response...
@BankConfidenti1 @TransparencyTF

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🗞️ FCA accused of breaking law by withholding whistleblowing data 👇

https://t.co/DY2WeUiXJZ

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🗞️ FCA accused of breaking law by withholding whistleblowing data 👇

https://t.co/DY2WeUiXJZ

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

https://t.co/DY2WeUipUr

[Lorraine Morris @MLorrM]

🔹 The reported PRA review of Barclays’ total-return-swap treatment for private-credit exposures raises legitimate questions about how banks are measuring and capitalising risk in a rapidly growing & it has to be said - a lightly regulated sector.

🔹If derivatives used to finance private-credit loans were logged in a way that understated their risk, the bank would have held less capital than the economic exposure warranted and reported higher profits as a result.

🔹That is precisely the kind of outcome supervisors are meant to prevent.

🔹Private credit already sits outside the full banking regulatory perimeter, yet banks have built substantial direct and indirect exposures to it.

🔹When those exposures are further intermediated through derivatives whose classification is open to interpretation, transparency declines and the risk of under-capitalisation rises.

🔹Barclays’ defence that the treatment is consistent with the rules and was signed off internally and by advisers is noted, but rules can be applied aggressively, and as we have learned to our immense detriment - external advisers do not bear the capital consequences.

🔹The fact that the review was triggered by an insider rather than ordinary supervision is not reassuring - or given my own experiences - rather alarming.

🔹Given the recent losses banks have already suffered on private-credit-related failures & the redemption pressures seen in the sector, the public interest lies in a clear, timely account of what the PRA finds - not only for Barclays but for the industry.

🔹Until then, the combination of opaque exposures, favourable accounting treatments, and growing bank-shadow-bank linkages remains a source of legitimate & considerable concern.

@Wftproof @tyillc @Muinchille @kenoflynnTD @JMcGuinnessTD @centralbank_ie

https://t.co/9zS7QGdVEG

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

Sad to see the Canary close after 11 years. It says Lloyds closed its account in June and Metro Bank froze another in September without giving reasons, and debanking with no explanation is a serious worry for independent media.

[Eileen Chubb @CompassnInCare]

We look forward to reading the #CovidInquiry on the #Care sector later today. We submitted all of our 48 reports to the inquiry. We were the only UK #Whistleblowing Organisation publishing real time reports throughout the pandemic. We identified 48 different issues from our anonymised helpline data. Our reports were widely covered by the media at the time. Many will recall that our helpline was fielding a 60% increase in calls and that we extended the helpline hours from 10am to 10pm. We owe a huge depth of gratitude to all our volunteers for they made this possible. Our thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones in the #CovidCareHomeScandal We hope the truth will prevail

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📢UPCOMING EVENT: Who is protecting the money? Latvia, the EBRD, Russian Dirty Money, and Regulatory Failure

🗓️Tuesday 20th October 2026

🕕6:00PM-7:00PM BST

📍Zoom

What happens when a whistleblower raises serious concerns about financial misconduct, but the institutions responsible for investigating them fail to act?

Join us for a thought-provoking online event with John Christmas, who will share his first-hand account of a long-running whistleblowing campaign surrounding Latvia’s Parex Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

The discussion will explore allegations of false accounting and insider lending, questions about regulatory oversight, and the wider connections between financial institutions and Russian illicit finance.

What does this story reveal about transparency, accountability and the effectiveness of the institutions meant to protect the financial system?

Click here for full details and to book your free place 👇

https://t.co/QWzfRZj4Wb

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📽️ We have uploaded the recording of the event we ran last week, entitled: “Litigants in Person: Alone in Court – The Reality of Facing the Justice System Without a Lawyer”

The speaker was Edward Romain, ACILEX, Founder amp; CEO, Blind Justice UK

You can watch the recording here 👇

https://t.co/h1jEOTGqt3

If you can, please share this video widely within your network/on social media.

🗣️ Andy Agathangelou says: “Edward Romain delivered an excellent presentation followed by a discussion that really brought home just how dire the situation is for people who find themselves facing the justice system without a lawyer. This is an endemic problem, and people are in desperate need of practical help. Edward is filling a real void. I’m sure his forthcoming book will be an incredibly useful resource, teaching people the rules, explaining the tactics and helping them navigate a system that can otherwise feel impossible to face alone.

He delivered this message brilliantly, and it is one that more people need to hear. We will always achieve more if we find ways to work together, and this session was a fantastic example of why collaboration matters.”

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📺 TREASURY COMMITTEE MEETING: WORK OF THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY

The meeting took place on Tuesday 13th October. Simon Andriesz and the Dobbs Review were both topics of discussion at this meeting.

Witnesses included:

● Nikhil Rathi, Chief Executive, Financial Conduct Authority

● Jessica Rusu, Chief Data, Information amp; Intelligence Officer, Financial Conduct Authority

● Johan Sekora, Chief Operating Officer, Financial Conduct Authority

You can access the meeting on Parliament TV catch up here 👇

https://t.co/l8uiTVYyCv

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

Secretary @SecScottBessent. Director @FBIDirectorKash.

@HSBC paid $1.92 billion. No one went to jail. I was the whistleblower.

14 years later, @BankofAmerica admits it willfully broke the law, pays $1.2 billion, and no one goes to jail.

3.6 million Americans read my letter. You haven’t responded.

So I’m asking on camera: who is going to be charged?