By: Kknightmcc
Reply To: None Thursday, 10 Jun 1999 at 11:44 AM EDT
Post # of 1294
Due to the delay in seeing DCI Telecommunications, Inc. trading on the OTC BB after the SEC halt and the subsequent lifting of that halt by the SEC, I called the NASD yesterday and spoke to an OTC compliance officer. I went through the entire story of the SEC halt, the lifting of the halt by the SEC, and the subsequent trading on the "pink sheets". He seemed a bit resistant to giving me information, but I prodded him until he came out with the fact that DCI had not been cleared for trading on the OTC yet.
He also told me that we are not trading on the "pink sheets" and have not been. Which makes sense now because when I called the National Quotation Bureau that does the quotes on the "pink sheet" stocks, I was told that they had not received any paperwork to allow it to trade on that market. The good news is that we have not been down graded to the pink sheets. We are apparently trading in between the two boards. In essence we are allowed to trade the stock, but the market makers have not been cleared to make quotes on the stock. We are basically in limbo until they decide that the market makers are fully aware of the complete financial picture of the company. Apparently they want still more information from the market makers on top of everything that has already been provided. The rules are not clearly defined and the NASD can take as much time as they want to review beyond the so-called 10 days the market makers were told. All the NASD has to do to keep a stock halted is arbitrarily turn down the applications on the Form 15C-211's and then we are off to the races again.
It is my belief that DCI is being made an example of by the NASD in order to make the market makers do more research on the companies that they make a market in. Gone are the days when market makers will be allowed to trade a company without any knowledge of the company. I also believe that it is part of the new campaign to clean up the OTC, make all companies reporting, and delist all of the delinquent and scam companies. We have been caught in the new regulatory web so to speak.
I called Joe Murphy and told him what was said to me. He said he has been working every day trying to get the stock traded again. He is now trying to organize a meeting with the market makers, DCI's attorneys and accountants, and some of the DCI executives so they can all sit down together and make sure the market makers know everything there is to know about this company.
Joe did say to me that he was talking to an investment banker about putting the company up for sale again. He said he is very concerned about the shareholders and if he had to he would sell the company and we would all get the benefit that way rather than let the NASD hold things up indefinitely. He gave me permission to say that in my newsletter.
He also said that he has been working on trying to get the company listed on the London Stock Exchange because of the international offices of DCI in London and Spain. He considers DCI to be an international company at this point. He said it was not anything to do with the SEC halt or lack of trading on the boards here. That he had been working on that when all of this happened.
Kathy Knight-McConnell
Investor to Investor
investortoinvestor.com
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