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Monday, 28 January 2019

Beltone Financial says it wants to settle with the FRA

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Beltone confirms it wants to settle with the FRA: Beltone Financial has filed open talks with the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) and will drop its case against the regulator as it seeks a way out of its current impasse, the investment bank said in a bourse filing (pdf). The Administrative Court received on Saturday a report from the Board of State Commissioners recommending it reject Beltone’s appeal against a suspension handed to the investment bank’s IPO unit by the FRA.

FRA sets its own terms for settlement: Beltone will first have to reach a settlement with subscribers to the Sarwa Capital IPO last fall who had filed a complaint with the regulator. Then it can re-file its settlement request with the FRA, sources told Al Mal, where a committee would review the case before recommending to the regulator’s board whether to accept a settlement agreement.

Background: The FRA suspended late last year Beltone’s investment banking IPO unit for six months over alleged “irregularities” in its management of Sarwa Capital’s IPO, which saw the structured- and consumer-finance player’s shares nosedive by 11% on their EGX debut. The authority also ordered Beltone’s brokerage arm to raise its insurance cover to EGP 50 mn and maintain it at that level for a year. The company denied the allegations and has pursued legal action against the FRA’s decisions. Its plea to the FRA’s appeals committee has been turned down.

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