Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Wirecard

Ex-banker And Scholz Ally: Germany's New Finance Minister

Joerg Kukies, Germany's new finance minister, is a former investment banker who has long been one of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's closest advisers, most recently as a state secretary.

International Business Times

Fintech firm pivots to porn and gambling

London fintech Curve completed a £133 million series-C funding round last year. How is it using the money to grow?

Evening Standard

Former Austrian Intelligence Officer Arrested On Spying Allegations For Russia

Arrest of former Austrian intelligence officer for alleged spying raises security concerns in Austria.

Top News

Bulgarians accused of spying for Russia appear in London court

Five suspected of being part of network assisting Russian state with potential abduction of some targets

The Guardian - UK

Former Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek accused of being behind Russian spy ring

Former Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek has been accused of being behind a Russian spy ring operated out of the UK, according to a court case heard today.

Evening Standard

EY fined over audits of failed German payments firm Wirecard

The German arm of EY has been fined 500,000 euros after acting as the auditor for collapsed payments company Wirecard and barred from auditing certain kinds of companies for two years

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Covert cameras and alleged hacking: how bust payments company Wirecard ‘hired spies and lawyers to silence critics’

Legal claim provides glimpse into world of corporate espionage and reputation management

The Guardian - UK

Ex-CEO Braun denies 'all charges' in Wirecard fraud trial

Munich (Germany) (AFP) - Wirecard's ex-CEO Markus Braun denied all charges against him and insisted he had no knowledge of the massive accounting fraud that brought down the German payments firm, as he took the stand for the first time on Monday.

AFP

The Adani cloud over India

The recent set of allegations have raised questions about the tycoon’s meteoric rise and the role of regulators.

Al Jazeera

Ex-Wirecard CEO in the dock over 'unparalleled' fraud

Munich (Germany) (AFP) - Wirecard's ex-CEO Markus Braun and two former executives went on trial in Munich on Thursday charged with fraud over their involvement in Germany's biggest-ever accounting scandal.

AFP

Ex-Wirecard boss on trial in fraud case that shamed Germany

The former chief executive of financial services company Wirecard and two other ex-managers has gone on trial over the firm’s collapse

The Independent UK

Surveillance, hacking: whistleblower recalls Wirecard nightmare

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - When short seller Matthew Earl anonymously co-authored a report detailing explosive allegations of wrongdoing at German fintech champion Wirecard, his life was turned upside down.

AFP

Huge Wirecard fraud trial opens in Germany

Munich (Germany) (AFP) - Germany's mammoth Wirecard fraud trial opened on Thursday, with ex-CEO Markus Braun and two former executives in the dock over their roles in the country's biggest-ever accounting scandal.

AFP

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

AFP

Five things to know about the Wirecard scandal

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - More than two years after the dramatic collapse of German digital payments firm Wirecard, ex-CEO Markus Braun and two former managers will go on trial for fraud.

AFP

Ex-Wirecard CEO goes on trial over 'unparalleled' fraud

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - Ex-Wirecard CEO Markus Braun goes on trial in Munich this week for his role in the collapse of the once celebrated payments firm, brought down by the biggest accounting fraud scandal in German corporate history.

AFP

Germany's huge Wirecard fraud trial to start in December

Frankfurt (AFP) - Wirecard's former CEO Markus Braun will go on trial from December 8 to answer fraud charges in Germany's biggest-ever accounting scandal, a Munich court said Wednesday.

Reuters

Analysis: 100 banks, 1,000 suspects: German fraud probe puts Scholz on the spot

German chancellor Olaf Scholz faces lawmakers' questions this week over his role in tackling a multibillion-euro tax fraud as a sprawling probe into the scheme threatens to undermine him as he grapples with an energy crisis and the fallout of war.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

‘I kept a hammer under the bed’ - one journalist’s 6-year battle with Wirecard

Journalist Dan McCrum’s life was turned upside down on a trip to Caffe Nero by Mansion House tube in 2014.

Financial Times

Inside EY’s break-up plan: why it could radically reshape the Big Four

Splitting the audit and advisory businesses faces significant hurdles but other firms could follow

Evening Standard

WeWork-backer SoftBank posts record $20 billion loss as tech stocks plunge

The world’s biggest technology investor has lost a record $20.5 billion (£16.8 billion) as its bets turn sour.

Reuters

Israeli charged in global hacker-for-hire scheme pleads guilty

An Israeli private detective detained in New York since 2019 on charges of involvement in a hacker-for-hire scheme pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit hacking and aggravated identity theft on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

German prosecutors charge 3 with fraud in Wirecard collapse

German prosecutors have charged the former CEO of payments company Wirecard and two other ex-managers with fraud and false accounting in connection with the firm’s collapse last year

AFP

Germany charges Wirecard's ex-CEO Braun over fraud

Berlin (AFP) - German prosecutors said Monday they have charged Wirecard's former chief executive Markus Braun and two other high-ranking managers for the colossal commercial fraud that led to the collapse of the payment company.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.