Life at Surge Financial - Marketing for LCF & Blackmore Bonds

By J Drew -
Surge Financial in Brighton were the company running the sales & marketing team for London Capital & Finance as well as Blackmore Bonds, a similar high risk mini bond company that was also targeting savers via the Top ISA Rates comparison websites.

Life at Surge Financial looks fun but I guess when you're getting up to 20% commission on the sale of high risk bonds there is plenty of money to keep the staff happy and the directors able to run their Ferraris and helicopters. The Ferrari owned by Paul Careless in the photos is a GT3 Lusso registration HF18CYA



It looks like life at Surge was a great place to be for employees with nail bar visits to the offices, ice creams served by "Captain Careless", fun competitions, hair cuts on site and other perks.

Strangely since the news about London Capital Finance broke they have removed their social media accounts and hidden the images




Back in 2018 there was also Surge Fest which was a free event for Surge Financial staff. Great way to keep people motivated to keep selling high risk bonds to pensioners although it raises the question - did the staff at Surge realise what they were actually selling to these bondholders? How would they have felt if it was their parents or grandparents that had potentially lost thousands?

Surge Fest 2018
Surge Fest 2018


Paul Careless, CEO Surge Financial

Comments

  1. Anonymous20 February 2019 at 15:06

    This guy worked at MJS and then stepped over the fence to work for Surge. nice earnings for 'Financial advisor' https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/Itse7xDWtWAGgMPrEXZoz1zCOAA/appointments

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  2. Unknown18 March 2019 at 11:46

    Thank you. It is time that there is a bite back to expose the role of Surge in the London Capital and Finance investigations. £60 million was an astonishingly large fee for the supposed financial marketing for LCF and we now know that the marketing was seriously misleading.

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