Missing shares 17/10/2023, page-188

ummm... it is serious but tryin not to be flippant

choice 1.
so westpac, after the aussie asx settlement failed for a company they no longer have as a listing (so they decided to keep the cash even though the asx contract did not get fulfilled? and give the cash to someone or just keep it themselves for a few months?) and then cos the aussie company got bought out westpac made some sort of legally enforcable agreement outside the ASX procedures (is that made under aussie law or US law if it goes to court?) that some aussie company is required to buy shares in a US company on a US exchange and then transfer ownership of those shares to some australian but place the said shares into a US share registry? (unsure where they get the name an details of the new owner from in these days of secrecy)...... or do they put them in a box and put them under the xmas tree at westpac head office for handing out?

choice 2.
or, alternatively, the failed trades get wiped and money returned to the westpac account?

hmmmmm. tough choice.