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The Market Court recently received a petition for the annulment and reform of the decision of the Sanctions Commission of financial watchdog FSMA in the Nyrstar case. The commission had found Nyrstar NV guilty of market manipulation. The company was fined €80,000, but its board members were acquitted. The commission ruled that there had been insufficient investigation into their individual roles in the manipulation. That ruling is now being challenged. The ball is therefore i

The FSMA Sanctions Commission did find misleading practices at Nyrstar and convicted it of market manipulation related to its liquidity position prior to the restructuring. The other allegations, despite having been thoroughly analyzed for four years by the FSMA Auditor, were dismissed two years later, after six years of proceedings, including five days of closed-door hearings, without even consulting the minority shareholders' union that had been working on the case for more

“Together, we can make our societies open for business but closed for crime.” The words of Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever at the United Nations still resonate as I work my way through the 146-page decision of the FSMA Sanctions Committee on market manipulation at Nyrstar NV. The Committee’s mandate was clear: to determine the sanctions for four violations identified by the FSMA’s auditor after years of investigation. His exhaustive reports left little doubt that Nyrstar

Minority shareholders who suffer huge losses are left waiting for years, while courts, despite their best efforts, lack the resources to...

In this short video, Bart De Smet, Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee, reflects on the independence of board members and the...

The Nyrstar saga continues to make headlines. La Libre follows up on articles published by L'Echo and De Tijd and highlights a striking...

Our years of appealing for transparency in the sour Nyrstar file finally seems to have been heard. In this article by Bert Broens in De Tijd, it is now also explicitly confirmed that the Auditor of the FSMA concludes, after years of investigation, that Nyrstar has misled the market by not communicating transparently. photo © De Tijd For example, no less than 719 million euros in debt were kept hidden from the market. But there is more: our thesis that Trafigura has served its

Is Nyrstar’s board of directors truly caught between a rock and a hard place? That metaphor positions the board as a victim. In reality, it has uncritically aligned itself with the interests of its majority shareholder, Trafigura. In a recent interview with De Tijd, Marc Taeymans, an independent board member at Nyrstar, portrayed the company as a collatoral casuality in a dispute between Trafigura and minority shareholders. This portrayal is not only inaccurate—it is perilous

The financial newspaper De Tijd published an opinion by Kris Vansanten in which he argues that Nyrstar should finally act in line with...

“You're losing.” With these harsh words, Jamie Dimon, CEO of the world's largest bank, addressed Europe today in the Financial Times....

The truncated communication from Nyrstar clearly does not please the Financial Services and Markets Authority ( FSMA ) and the Antwerp...

The classic 'principal-agent problem' played a central role in the Nyrstar case. Kris Vansanten describes how board members and legal...

In a ruling in the Nyrstar case, the chamber of indictments at the Brussels court of appeal lashes out at the federal government for its...

How do you commit a hold-up on a publicly traded company in Belgium? By applying a cuckoo strategy, as this video explains in less than...

'The biggest robbery in Belgian industrial history' is how Le Vif magazine describes Trafigura's role in the takeover of Nyrstar's...

“The greatest hold-up in Belgian industrial history” — that is how the magazine Le Vif describes Trafigura’s role in the acquisition of...

A true David versus Goliath story. The small shareholder against one of the most powerful companies in the world, Trafigura, which turns...

"The protection of minority shareholders and the strengthening of the Belgian capital market require well-founded analysis and policy....

An article that speaks volumes! The Brussels stock exchange is dying a slow death", writes Peter De Groote in De Tijd. Is that...

Is Nyrstar really suffering a $300 million loss due to historically low zinc processing wages, as a recent article in De Tijd seems to...