Geneva’s long hard road to the Unlisted exchange

Geneva’s long hard road to the Unlisted exchange
Geneva will become the latest company to wave goodbye to the NZX. (Image: NZME)
Paul McBeth
Shades of the 1980s – that’s how the first dejected shareholders of Geneva Finance characterised the meeting they’d just left, where the finance minnow’s future as a New Zealand Exchange-listed company hung. The meeting was always going to be tense. In Auckland’s Mount Wellington, at the Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre, the media were barred from this shareholder gathering, having witnessed the previous special meeting at which the minority shareholders gave Geneva’s controlling owner a bit of a...

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