Storm Financial

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Storm Financial Limited

Company type	Public
Industry	Financial Services
Founded	23 May 1994; 30 years ago (1994-05-23) in Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Founder	Emmanuel Cassimatis and Julie Cassimatis
Defunct	26 March 2009 (2009-03-26)
Fate	Liquidated
Headquarters	Townsville, Queensland , Australia
Area served	Australia
Services	Financial advice
Website	stormfinancial.com.au at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-02-17) storm.asic.gov.au - Australian Securities & Investments Commission Page

Storm Financial Limited was a financial advice company, based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The company was founded by Emmanuel Cassimatis and his wife Julie Cassimatis as a private company initially with the name Cassimatis Securities Pty Ltd on 23 May 1994.^[1] As part of the company's expansion outside of Townsville the company changed its name from a personality based name to ozdaq Securities Pty Ltd on 10 April 2000. This name remained intact until 1 February 2004 when it was relinquished consequent to trademark objections from the Nasdaq stock exchange in the United States. The company then traded as Storm Financial Pty Ltd from 2 February 2004 until 14 June 2007 at which time the company became an unlisted public company and continued trading as Storm Financial Ltd from 15 June 2007 in preparation for making an initial public offering (IPO) in December 2007. This IPO was subject to a Storm Financial Prospectus which was dated 14 November 2007 and lodged with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) on the same date. Storm Financial Ltd continued to trade until external administrator Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants were appointed on 9 January 2009. The main creditor Commonwealth Bank appointed receivers and manager KordaMentha on 15 January 2009.