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The Disciplinary Committee of Nasdaq Stockholm has found that Fingerprint Cards AB (“Fingerprint Cards”) has breached Nasdaq Stockholm’s regulations (the “Rule Book”) and, accordingly, has imposed a fine on Fingerprint Cards AB amounting to two annual fees, corresponding to an amount of SEK 916.496.
The Disciplinary Committee has found that Fingerprint Cards acted in breach of item 3.1.5 of the Rule Book and in breach of the regulations issued by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, (Finansinspektionen), FFFS 2007:17 when publishing a revenue forecast on December 9, 2015. Furthermore, Fingerprint Cards also breached the same item in the Rule Book through a statement to the media on the same day. Moreover, Fingerprint Cards did not inform the exchange prior to publication of the information, which must be considered potentially significant price sensitive. Finally, Fingerprint Cards is not considered to have met the requirements regarding sufficient capacity for information disclosure, item 2.4.3 of the Rule Book.
The Disciplinary Committee has concluded that Fingerprint Cards did not act in compliance with the Rule Book in a number of situations during 2015 and 2016. Although, to a certain extent, the individual breaches could be considered to be excusable and entail an error committed by the Company’s distribution service, and were outside of the Company’s control, in the assessment of the Disciplinary Committee these violations together with the statements of a previous CEO on Twitter and previous criticism from the Exchange with regard to the company’s information disclosure mean that the Company has not had adequate procedures and systems in place for its information disclosure. Together, these violations cannot be considered minor or excusable and warrant a fine corresponding to two annual fees.
A more detailed description of the case and the Disciplinary Committee’s ruling is published on:
http://www.nasdaqomx.com/listing/europe/surveillance/stockholm/disciplinarycommittee/decisions/
Participating in the Committee’s decision were former Supreme Court Justice Marianne Lundius, Supreme Court Justice Anne-Christine Lindeblad, Company Director Carl-Johan Högbom, Company Director Jack Junel and former Authorized Public Accountant Bo Magnusson.
