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[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📢 FCA ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING: TOMORROW, 6 OCTOBER 2026, EDINBURGH

The FCA will discuss its Annual Report and Accounts 2025/26, with questions open to the Chair, Chief Executive, Executive Directors and the Board.

It's a first-class opportunity to hold the regulator to account, so we encourage everyone to attend, online or, even better, in person.

Registering also gives you the chance to put questions to the FCA. They have a policy of answering all questions (sometimes it takes months, but they generally get there eventually!).

✅ Register here: https://t.co/8vC9BexhP4

📍 Venue change to Edinburgh for 2026: https://t.co/amnshcRFE9

[Simon Andriesz @SAndriesz]

I am the British whistleblower who reported evidence concerning Howard Lutnick, his links to Jeffrey Epstein, and Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC to the FBI in 2020–21.

Listen to the BBC File on 4 documentary about my whistleblower story:

https://t.co/rLRDnZA4Dv

BBC News:

https://t.co/DdNNOosnKL

I later shared evidence with the House Oversight Committee, which subsequently questioned Lutnick behind closed doors.

My disclosures also contributed to regulatory action in the US and UK, including a £96m HMRC tax assessment relating to BGC’s partnership scheme. I believe the true tax exposure is substantially higher.

I also reported to the FBI and financial regulators matters involving Cantor Fitzgerald’s Relief Fund and BGC/Cantor’s annual 9/11 Charity Day.

The personal consequences of whistleblowing, and the retaliation I say followed, have been devastating for my family and me.

Mother Jones previously reported that documents I uncovered revealed a years-long business tie between Howard Lutnick, Cantor Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Epstein through AdFin, including a 2018 exchange in which Lutnick and Epstein discussed the company directly:

https://t.co/aRdn302v4i
https://t.co/aRdn302v4i

Follow me here on X and on LinkedIn. I intend to share more of the evidence and the story behind what happened.

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

https://t.co/Mwo7Su1g3x

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📚 TTF'S BOOK OF THE WEEK

"The Million Pound Swindle: The Fraudster Who Exploited Britain's Care System" by Kate Snell (previously published as The Care Home Swindler)

Behind a façade of luxury and respectability, David Barton, owner of the Barton Park Nursing Home in Southport, swindled millions of pounds from the infirm. He was aided by corrupt solicitors, bookkeepers and senior care home workers, people the elderly trusted.

With exclusive access to witnesses, court documents, victims' families, the police and the CPS, award-winning journalist Kate Snell unravels a story of property empires, luxury cars, false identities and forged documents. The book also asks a bigger question: what more should be done to protect the most vulnerable in our communities?

Mark Easton calls it "beautifully written, immaculately constructed, thoroughly researched and raising a very important issue at a key moment."

Order your copy on Amazon: https://t.co/Abg1Dj7QH3

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📢 NEW CONSULTATION RESPONSE

We've submitted our response to the Department for Business and Trade's consultation on Swifter and Simpler Competition Redress, Regulatory Appeals and Competition Enforcement.

The consultation seeks views on reform proposals to simplify and improve the efficiency of the opt-out collective actions, regulatory appeals and competition enforcement regimes.

Read TTF's full response here: https://t.co/iMvys2QE8u

We're very grateful to everyone who helped create it. 🙏

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🕯️Remembering Simon Andriesz: a whistleblower who stood up for what was right 🕯️

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Simon Andriesz, a valued member of our community, passed away last week.

Simon spent 35 years in the securities industry before becoming a whistleblower. His disclosures were later validated in part: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission gave him a formal whistleblower award, and HM Revenue & Customs issued a substantial determination concerning matters he had raised.

Simon’s case was featured in the hard-hitting BBC File on 4 Investigates broadcast on 14 July 2026, Epstein Files: Lutnick, the Royals and the British Whistleblower:

🎙️ https://t.co/kK6EMGYHkw

Shortly after, he spoke publicly for the first time at a Transparency Task Force event on the FCA's handling of his case, describing the personal cost of coming forward to his career, his health, and his family.

Watch the TTF event and hear Simon's story in his own words: https://t.co/pZju8DzoL5

Whistleblowing can be an isolating path, and Simon's experience was a reminder of how much whistleblowers sacrifice and how much more support they deserve.

We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and loved ones.

A tribute article dedicated to Simon by TTF community member Paul Callin: https://t.co/JMwmcu1NoV

If you are a whistleblower or victim and are struggling, you don't have to go through this alone. Samaritans can be reached free, any time, on 116 123.

TTF will do all we can to help ensure that lessons are learned; even by those organisations that seem highly resistant to learning them - more on that in due course.

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📢 UPCOMING EVENT: "Litigants in Person: Alone in Court - The Reality of Facing the Justice System Without a Lawyer"

📅 Tuesday 13th October 2026
⏰ 6:00PM-7:00PM UK time
📍 Zoom

As part of our Litigants in Person series, we’re pleased to be holding our fourth session exploring the experiences and challenges faced by people navigating the justice system without legal representation.

In this session we’ll be joined by Edward Romain, Founder and CEO of @BlindJusticeUK.

Drawing on his experience supporting litigants in person and his forthcoming book, Alone in Court: What Happens When Ordinary People Face the Justice System Without a Lawyer, Edward will explore the practical, personal and systemic challenges of representing yourself in court.

The session will also consider what can be done to make the justice system more accessible and navigable, with an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and share their own experiences.

Click here 👇 for full details and to book your free place: https://t.co/s8jt5xKMHS

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🎙️ PODCAST: The Worst Memo in American History

Big corporate money in American politics is something we almost take for granted. But where did it start?

The answer goes back to 1971, when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, then a Richmond attorney and future Supreme Court justice, to report on the political activities of the Left. The result became known as the Powell memo.

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/y0K5zlWcQj

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📰 Latest from FinCrime Central

Recent articles from founder, Fred Kahn:

🔹 FCA finds 238,396 suspected money mules offboarded in 2025

https://t.co/QTY8MD7YiX

🔹 UK freezes £53 million London townhouse linked to sanctions

https://t.co/dG8SHLx90u

🔹 Binance faces US probe over possible Iran sanction breaches

https://t.co/ibpOmxTneP

🔹 Former Nodus Bank CEO gets 112 months for fraud and sanctions evasion

https://t.co/PLkWKTmQUm

Read all articles: https://t.co/6roF1hJde0

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📚 TTF's Book of the Week: "Smoke & Mirrors" by Byron Jenkins

George Orwell's famous warning — "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" — is the starting point for this wide-ranging examination of history, power and the stories we are taught to accept.

From ancient civilisations, religion and the origins of Christianity to Freemasonry, banking, political power and the institutions that shape modern society, Jenkins asks what happens when we stop accepting the official version of events and start looking for ourselves.

Drawing on years of personal research, the book explores historical mysteries, alternative interpretations and controversial theories that have fascinated — and divided — people for generations. Jenkins doesn't ask readers to simply believe him; he lays out the connections he's found, the questions they raise, and invites readers to investigate further and reach their own conclusions.

You may agree with him. You may not. But the book's message is a simple one: question everything, and trust only what you verify.

📖 Order on Amazon: https://t.co/ILnV8XVopv

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📢 On Wednesday 21 October, the Corporate Justice Coalition is holding the Good Business Matters Mass Lobby of Parliament — bringing people together from across the UK to call for stronger laws to hold UK companies accountable for harms to people and the planet, including through their global supply chains.

The day gives participants the chance to meet with their MP and make the case for stronger corporate accountability. No previous lobbying experience is needed — guidance and support will be provided to help you prepare.

Can't travel to London? You can still take part by arranging a meeting with your MP locally.

If you care about corporate accountability and responsible business, this is a chance to make your voice heard directly to your representative.

👉 Sign up: https://t.co/G1N7eXlCpB

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📽️ They Stole the World's Wealth: Judge Exposes the Financial Conspiracy With Proof! 👇

https://t.co/NNWa10ii9S

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📢 NAO Regulation Webinar 2026: Regulating to Deliver Better Consumer Outcomes

How can regulators spot and respond to vulnerability in a digital-first world? How can they back innovation that strengthens consumer protection, and prove their interventions make a real difference?

Speakers:

🔹 Charlotte Clark, FCA

🔹 Brad Enright, Gambling Commission

🔹 Jacqui Russell, Office for Rail and Road

🔹 Chair: Anita Shah, National Audit Office

Free to attend. Book your place: https://t.co/67jvOnTbab

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🗞️ Former Swiss bank lobby chief convicted of bribery and money laundering 👇

https://t.co/CSPC3yvxKG

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📢 NEW REPORT: Osgoode Investor Protection Clinic and Living Lab, 2026 Annual Report

The Clinic at Osgoode Hall Law School offers free legal advice to people who believe they lost money through someone else's wrongdoing and can't afford a lawyer. Until now, Canadian investors had nowhere to turn for this. The Clinic fills that gap.

It also works as a research lab, collecting anonymized data to inform research on investor harm.

📄 Read the 2026 Annual Report: https://t.co/hLqmng1v8K

🔗 About the Clinic: https://t.co/9Tp93J2AHc

[stephen middleton @stevemiddi1]

Glass-Steagell, Dodds-Frank, the Volcker Rule all went some way to restrict US Banks leverage & risk.

The UK however, in the early to mid 2000's was the centre for Over the Counter (OTC) derivative trades with the EU heavily tied in.

In September 2008 Lehman's did a US Chapter 11 & effectively dropped a 'dirty bomb' in EU financial markets.

Compare economies and growth since 2008 on.

I didn't write to Martin Wheatley & @TheFCA in 2013 about Hidden Credit Lines, I alleged that the banks were relying on/trading SME's assets as collateral in their trading books.

The FCA said I was getting confused with Repo deals, I wasn't...

I was alleging the banks were relying on ISDA deals, All Monies Charges & undisclosed margin credit lines to pool clients assets as direct 'counterparties' in their trading collateral, Lehman's style.

Effectively treating them as Repo deals without transferring the title, the FCA's post Markets in Financial Directives (MiFID) interpretation of the Rules allowed that.

It didn't work on paper, it didn't comply with the regulations but that did little to stop them.

The Terms of Business set out the risks clearly but SMEs either didn't receive them & if they did certainly didn't understand them.

Treating car salesmen, carpet salesmen, farmers, landlords etc. as investment professionals capable of trading complex and long term derivatives against them, one on one.

Complex Financial Instruments, derivatives sold Execution Only (no advice), was a direct contravention of the MiFID directive and the reason for its drafting.

The banks had Bloomberg terminals telling them their immediate profit from undisclosed swap margins (they would lie about the market swap rate and add circa 0.5% on) and the expected credit liability from future losses.

They stated it was a no premium deal whilst hiding the commission (added value) and ongoing/future risk in a Hidden Credit Line.

When rates dropped they kept increasing margin credit against the customers property, in the customers name without telling them.

When the banks ran out of equity, they were left with the increasing risk & the only way to resolve that was bust the client, take the property on to their own books and cover the risk in full with that equity.

They could write down the debt, bust the customer, recover the full collateral & then like @NatWestGroup buy the customers assets, re-value the assets again -because there was no longer a default risk (HM Treasury underwrote the risk) and massively profit from the customers forced insolvency.

That's why the FCA's appalling IRHP Review Scheme could not be based on the Rules, almost all of them had been broken & virtually all SME's would be owed their money back & consequential losses.

So the FCA got all of the Skilled Persons who would act on the Review in & agreed the 'Sales Standards' instead of the Rules.

They instructed all of them, don't consider contingent liabilities (the risk that led to the Hidden Credit Line fraud) & don't consider the undisclosed fraudulent credit facilities that led to the destruction of tens/ hundreds of thousands of SMEs.

A state sponsored cover up.

Then consider the Barclays traders/ managers/ Directors involvement in the Ricardo Cayman's offshore funds. Built to profiteer from these deals.

Consider Aubrey Adams ex Savills CEO seconded into & then head of property in @NatWestGroup GRG whilst being Chair of the Jersey based REIT 'Max Property' working with Nick Leslau.

The fund was set up in 2009 specifically to benefit from the purchase of distressed UK commercial property, what a coincidence...

Then the City Minister @JohnGlenUK told Parliament @hmtreasury would not confirm which @NatWestGroup Asset Protection Scheme 'covered assets' ended up on the West Register Books, it was commercially sensitive he said.

I bet it was, to those who made millions from the pre-meditated asset stripping.

Interesting that the Land Registry system that previously produced Titles that confirmed every previous owner of property, only recorded 1 last owner as all of these assets were stripped & properties bought & sold by bank and Government connections.

The evidence was sensitive to the little gang 'filling their boots', buying assets many SME's had spent a lifetime building for 10-20% of real market value.

A state sponsored cull and theft of SMEs funds, the same SMEs who had & continue to, drive the UK economy, since 2008 with little or no support from the bailed out banks.

Millionaire became Billionaires within a few years.

When I wrote to them, the Hidden Credit Lines were I believed such an obvious element of that scandal, the FCA would have to admit it immediately.

13 years later they are still denying it & misleading Parliament.

In my humble opinion the FCA are little more than an organised crime cover up syndicate, hiding the crimes in plain sight.

I grew up in a depression, when Thatcher's policies were destroying mining, the Unions, the North and saw whole villages/areas devastated by her bowing to Milton Friedman's promotion of 'market forces'.

Isn't it time history taught us a lesson and we stopped believing all roads lead to the City & its promotion when what it has actually brought us is crashes, fraud, deceit, asset stripping, money laundering central, Mandelson & Epstein...
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[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

📢 FCA Annual Public Meeting — 6 October 2026, Edinburgh

The FCA will discuss its Annual Report & Accounts 2025/26, with Q&A open to the Chair, CEO, Executive Directors and the Board.

This is a genuine chance to hold the regulator to account — attend in person or online, and registering lets you submit questions (the FCA commits to answering all of them, eventually!).

🔗 Register: https://t.co/8vC9BexhP4

📰 Venue announcement: https://t.co/amnshcRFE9

[Transparency Task Force @TransparencyTF]

🗞️ Whistleblowing reform: what has actually changed since the promises 👇

https://t.co/RQqp37sLDj

Thank you to John Barwell for producing this article.