FinTech
Lex Greensill has been disqualified from acting as a company director for nine years.
The Australian financier, founder of collapsed North West FinTech Greensill Capital, has been banned until June 2035 following an investigation by The Insolvency Service.
Lex Greensill, a former sugar farmer now aged 49, was a director of three companies within the Greensill Group – Greensill Capital (UK) Limited, Greensill Limited and Australian parent company Greensill Capital Pty Limited – which collapsed in 2021 with combined liabilities of more than £1.6 billion.
Following the collapse it emerged that former Prime Minister Lord Cameron had sent dozens of messages during the COVID-19 pandemic requesting that Greensill be granted…