Blackmore Bonds has delayed paying quarterly interest on its bonds for a second time.

Investors received an email from Blackmore director Patrick McCreesh saying that the payment due in two days' time would be delayed until 29th November.

Blackmore's last interest payment at the end of July was also delayed by a few weeks. In that case Blackmore blamed a "clerical error". This time around Blackmore has blamed "circumstances outside their control". At least they didn't try to blame Brexit.

Blackmore Bonds, which issues unregulated loan notes in its property development business, is a few days late in paying quarterly interest to some investors, according to reports in Money Marketing and the Telegraph.

According to Bond Review readers and The Telegraph, Blackmore's switchboard is jammed with worried investors and it is not answering emails.

A few days before it feel overdue with its annual accounts, Blackmore Bonds plc has used a loophole in the Companies Act to delay filing.

Blackmore Bond plc’s accounts for the year ending December 2018 would normally have become overdue on 30 June 2019. On 27 June Blackmore shortened its accounting period by a single day, giving it another three months before it legally becomes overdue.

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Blackmore Bonds has removed all literature relating to its bonds from its website and replaced them with the following notice:

We have achieved our fundraising goals for this tax year and are not currently taking new investment.

We will be introducing our next offering in the following tax year, so please watch this space for future announcements.

If you are a current investor, you can log in below to manage your account.

Blackmore Bonds has been making a number of changes to its website recently to improve its compliance with the FCA's "clear, fair and not misleading" rules.

Around a year ago, the top of Blackmore's website prominently featured the headings "Capital Protection" and "Income Certainty" below its interest rates. Immediately below this, in letters half the size, were the words "Capital at risk | Please read our risk section. Illiquid and non-transferable. Not FSCS".

By including risk warnings in text half the size of headlines saying "Capital Protection", this old version of the website put Blackmore potentially afoul of the FCA's regulations that "balancing statements" such as these must be displayed with equal prominence to be clear, fair and not misleading.

Blackmore's new version of its website is a considerable improvement in this regard, with the "Capital Protection" and "Income Certainty" headings gone, and a risk warning "The products on this site offer a high return on your investment, it is important to understand that as with all investments of this type your Capital is at Risk" displayed in 27-point font, the same size as its headlines.

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