Mark McIvor launches a new business known as Strongman Financier.

THE corporate cop permanently banned Mark McIvor from providing financial services back in 2015 but that hasn’t stopped the “finance futurist’’ from launching a new business.

Mark McIvor has launched a new business known as Strongman Financier.

CRACKING CODES

THE corporate cop permanently banned Mark McIvor from providing financial services back in 2015, three years after the collapse of his Equititrust funds management outfit.

But that hasn’t stopped the formerly bankrupt Gold Coast bizoid from launching a new business known as Strongman Financier Ltd.

McIvor describes himself as the “founder and finance futurist’’ of the company, which was registered in March with three other directors and lists its registered office with Hickey Lawyers at Bundall.

The company’s website describes it as “a member based capital management partnership, asset strategist and creative media studio’’.

It claims to have cracked the code of a simple algorithm that “underpins the human equity and risk management systems of the global investment banking industry’’.

Strongman also has lofty ambitions to launch a 100,000-strong “Members Investment Capital Corporation’’ and list that entity on the ASX with the help of a new crypto-currency.

McIvor, who maintains he was once worth $150 million, didn’t return a call seeking comment yesterday.

But he has previously made clear that he wants to shake up the banking sector following the demise of Equititrust, which fell over in 2012 with two funds owing investors more than $260 million.

McIvor has long claimed to be a victim of misconduct by ASIC, big banks and the insolvency industry.

Illustration of Mark McIvor by Brett Lethbridge.

But since then, he says he has “learned to embrace the divinity in the negative’’ and cracked that aforementioned algorithm to help “create a truly unique model of digitised wealth creation’’.

“Mark has designed a revolutionary, licensed funds management system to empower independent finance and capital solutions regionally, empowering business resilience,’’ the website says.

Among those joining McIvor on the Strongman board are former Citigold chairman John Foley and ex-Hayman Island boss Lloyd Donaldson.

Handling the legal work is a bloke named Zoltan Verszeghy, a lawyer and former Victorian cop who once provided advice to Prince Leonard, founder of the joke kingdom known as the Hutt River Province.

TWO LAUNCH PARTIES

IT SEEMS one launch party this week is not enough for the new Black Hide steakhouse in Brisbane’s old Treasury building.

No, John Gambaro and his family are hosting two separate events – a bash tonight and tomorrow night – to unveil their first venue outside of Caxton St.

About 130 or more guests are expected each evening and Treasury operatives tried hard to keep the names under wraps.

But it’s understood there will be a fairly diverse cross-section of business, sporting and media types quaffing down the champers and nibbling on canapes.

Those on the list include footy stars Sam Thaiday, Corey Parker and Jamie Charman, as well as media identities Mark Ferguson, Sofie Formica and Bianca Dye.

Also expected to show up are bizoids Sam Abi, John Haines, Chris Condon, Greg Willems, Craig Harris, Nathan Mitchell and Melinda Butterfield.

Gambaro declined to reveal yesterday how much money had been tipped into the fitout of the new eatery, based in the space once occupied by The Kitty cocktail bar.

But City Beat spies report that the figure is north of $2 million.

The redevelopment work took more than three months and Gambaro said he was thrilled with his group’s second Black Hide outpost, which opens to the public on Friday.

“It’s an amazing space,’’ he said. “It’s a great move for us.’’