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The new CEO of the financial services technology company Fiserv said Wednesday that the firms financial outlook was grim, sending its stock collapsing by more than 40% and erasing $30 billion in market valueand laid the blame squarely with a Trump administration appointee whom the president has praised as amazing.
When nominating former Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano as Social Security administrator earlier this year, President Donald Trump said the executive frequently takes troubled entities and turns them around.With current Fiserv chief Mike Lyons warning on Wednesday that Bisignano had made major missteps as CEO, overinflating its sales projections and relying on short-term cost-cutting before selling his stock for $500 million, the advocacy group Social Security Works said beneficiaries of the governments anti-poverty program for senior citizens should be alarmed that the former executive is now in charge of their crucial benefits.
Fiserv lost 40% of its value because the former CEO, Frank Bisignano, is a liar, said SSW. But Bisignano is Trumps buddy, so he can only fail up. Hes now in charge of your Social Security.
Lyons told analysts and investors that when Bisignano was leading Fiserv from 2020 until earlier this year, the company made sales projections that would have been objectively difficult to achieve even with the right investment and strong execution.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/demand-for-trump-s-social-security-chief-to-resign-after-30-billion-implosion/ar-AA1PIG58
Cheezoholic
(3,472 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(12,387 posts)A finance chief joined the Trump administration. Then his company unravelled
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AZJonnie
(2,501 posts)A headline coming soon to your neighborhood.
Bank on it
Fiendish Thingy
(21,751 posts)Bozvotros
(951 posts)His entire cabinet is full of cons, cretins, corporate criminals,, crooks, creeps and pedophiles. Kind off like the old Soviet Union CCCP but with more C's in it. CCCCCCP.
NBachers
(19,103 posts)IbogaProject
(5,492 posts)That wasn't necessarially an actual amount of money lost. I am sure some later investors got ripped off but when they say 30 billion "value" wiped out they are reffering to a reduction in the total "value" of outstanding shares.
rubbersole
(10,939 posts)It's nothing but theft from the Treasury. Just getting started.
progressoid
(52,432 posts)Just like all of his staff.
LudwigPastorius
(13,956 posts)rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, and horse thieves.
calimary
(88,695 posts)dlk
(13,073 posts)This smells funny.
slightlv
(7,196 posts)trump wanted to be president was to bankrupt the United States for Putin, with his reward being all the money he "lost" would end up in his pocket... probably laundered through the crypto market. Until NO ONE in this country has food, a living wage, or health care, trump will continue doing putin's bidding of killing us as a first world country. To some (including me) we are already at 3rd world status... but others MMV on that point. I just believe he's not leaving until he has ALL our money.