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06.08.2024 | Two more Wirecard executives charged over accounting scandal | Previous
Markus Braun, CEO (R) and Alexander von Knoop, CFO of Wirecard AG, an independent provider of outsourcing and white label solutions for electronic payment transactions attend the company's annual news conference in Aschheim near Mu... |
29.05.2024 | N26 Banking App Overcomes Germany's Financial Watchdog Scrutiny, Growth Cap Lifted After $10M Fine | By John Lopez
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07.02.2023 | The massive selloff in Adani shares eclipses those of other short-seller targets like Enron and Wirecard | Adani Group companies have lost over $110 billion in market value in the past fortnight.
That's after US short seller Hindenburg Research leveled allegations of market manipulation and fraud at the conglomerate.
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11.07.2022 | Wirecard forged client list to secure £760m investment from SoftBank | German payments processer Wirecard forged client data in its efforts to secure €900m (£760m) in investment from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, as it sought to reassure investors about the fundamentals of its business before it collapsed th... |
07.07.2020 | A 2nd Wirecard executive gets arrested following $2 billion accounting scandal | German prosecutors questioned and arrested a second executive on Monday in relation to Wirecard's $2 billion accounting scandal.
Prosecutors didn't name the executive but revealed that it was the managing director of Cardsystems Middle East... |
06.07.2020 | An audit of Wirecard's key business in Europe and the US reportedly shows its internal financial numbers are far worse than previously thought | Wirecard's primary business operations in Europe and the US have been unprofitable for years, according to a Financial Times investigation, bringing into question official financial reports which showed significant profits.
An internal audi... |
06.07.2020 | WIRECARD AG
Wirecard Pre- And Post-Scandal: A Board Effectiveness Analysis | Wirecard's now former CEO,
Markus Braun, resigned with immediate effect from his position on June 19 and was arrested by German authorities on June 22, after the company's auditor, EY, reported EUR 1.9 billion missing from the balance sheet... |
30.06.2020 | «€1,9 млрд не существует»: почему произошёл крах Wirecard, как Payoneer и другие пережили блокировку и что будет дальше Статьи редакции... | Банкротство финтех-сервиса Wirecard стало неожиданным для партнёров, клиентов и инвесторов: стоимость компании рухнула, а кредиторы не знают, как получить назад более €3 млрд.
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26.06.2020 | This Week’s 10 Biggest Tech Stories In The European Market | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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26.06.2020 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Happy Friday!
We sincerely hope you and yours are keeping healthy and safe. Please take care of yourself and others.
This week, our research team tracked 75 tech funding deals worth €700 million, along with a dozen M&A transactions, rum... |
25.06.2020 | Alemã Wirecard apresenta pedido de insolvência | O Conselho de Administração da Wirecard, sede alemã da empresa, decidiu hoje apresentar um pedido de abertura de processo de insolvência no Tribunal Local competente de Munique, que ocorre quando a empresa não pode cumprir suas obrigações d... |
25.06.2020 | Wirecard, the disgraced German payments firm backed by SoftBank, files for insolvency over €1.3B in loans coming due | The house of cards has well and truly collapsed for Wirecard, the German payments company that has been accused of accounting fraud. Today it announced that its German operation Wirecard AG was applying for insolvency proceedings in a Munic... |
24.06.2020 | How Wirecard went from analyst darling to a $2.2 billion accounting scandal — and cost SoftBank hundreds of millions in the process | Wirecard, one of Europe's leading financial technology companies, is at the heart of one of the region's biggest corporate accounting scandals in recent years.
The company's shares have plunged over 80% since it told auditors that it could ... |
23.06.2020 | A forensic financial expert broke down how $2 billion vanished from the balance sheet of Wirecard, whose ex-CEO was just arrested | The German payments group Wirecard is in a swirling scandal after over $2 billion went missing from its balance sheet.
The scandal intensified when Markus Braun, the CEO who left the company on Friday, was arrested on Monday night.
A financ... |
19.06.2020 | Wirecard shares plummet as it announces €1.9bn of missing cash | Shares in Wirecard plunged more than 60% on 18 June after the German payments group postponed its annual results once again and said auditors could not confirm the existence of €1.9 billion in cash on its balance sheet.
According to the Fin... |
19.06.2020 | The CEO of scandal-hit Wirecard resigned after the company acknowledged $2 billion had gone missing, prompting its share price to plunge by 80% | Wirecard CEO Markus Braun resigned suddenly Friday as the fintech firm's share price nosedived by 80% over two days of trading.
The German payments firm is at the center of a huge accounting scandal after it revealed it was unable to trace ... |
18.06.2020 | Wirecard's shares tumble 65% after the payments processor says it is unable to trace $2 billion worth of cash | German fintech group Wirecard's shares dropped more than 65% after it announced on Thursday that it could not trace about $2 billion in its cash balances.
Wirecard said "spurious cash balances" may have been provided by a third-pa... |
12.05.2020 | Wirecard and Varengold Bank cooperate to provide financing and market-leading payment solutions to FinTech firms | FinTech customers to benefit from powerful combination of access to capital with comprehensive lending and card payment solutions
Wirecard and Varengold enhance each other’s offerings to better serve FinTechs and generate more business oppo... |
28.04.2020 | Wirecard shares crash 26% after critical KPMG audit | By Douglas Busvine
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BERLIN (Reuters) - An independent investigation by auditor KPMG into Wirecard WDIG.DE found on Tuesday the German payments company did not provide sufficient documentation to address all allegations of accounti... |
28.04.2020 | Wirecard Addresses Investigation From KPMG: No Incriminating Evidence Was Found for the Publicly Raised Accusations of Balance Sheet Manipulation | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Tuesday it has received the report on the special investigation by the auditing company KPMG that concluded there is no incriminating evidence fo... |
28.04.2020 | Factbox: Key findings of KPMG audit into Wirecard | By Reuters Staff
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Auditor KPMG published the results of its independent investigation into Wirecard WDIG.DE on Tuesday following allegations by the Financial Times of accounting irregularities at the German paym... |
20.04.2020 | Wirecard to be Named Preferred Payment Processor For Visa to Boost Visa Fintech Fast Track Program in the Middle East | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Monday it has joined forces with Visa to be the preferred payment processor for Visa as a way to boost the Visa Fintech Fast Track Program in the... |
10.03.2020 | Wirecard apresenta compra digitalizada em lojas físicas | A Wirecard, empresa de inovação em tecnologia financeira digital, continua investindo na expansão da experiência do cliente no varejo com a nova 360° Retail Experience, um protótipo de tela interativa para lojas com tecnologia de pagamento ... |
10.01.2020 | Sprint at CES 2020: All in on the Internet of Things | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200106-WelcomeToCES-Tenna-Bill-Karen1.mp4
Sprint made a number of announcements at CES 2020, including several that show how the telecom company continues to make big invest... |
08.01.2020 | Wirecard Teams Up With Sprint to Drive New Innovation in IoT & Unified Commerce | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Wednesday it is teaming up with Sprint to integrate its unified commerce solutions into Sprint’s Curiosity Internet of Things (IoT) platform to d... |
13.12.2019 | France’s Banking Challenger Orange Bank Extends Its Patnership with Wirecard to Support Google Pay Transactions in France | Germany-headquartered Wirecard, a payments platform, and France’s Orange Bank, a challenger bank, announced on December 11 that they’re extending their existing business relationship to allow Android users in France to make payments through... |
29.11.2019 | Wirecard Global Shopping Report 2019: Global Survey | 1 shares
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22.10.2019 | Payment Processor Wirecard Hires KPMG to Perform Independent Audit of Its Accounting Books | Payments processing firm Wirecard (WDI.DE) has commissioned an independent audit of its accounts by professional services firm KPMG. The audit is being performed to address questions related to allegations of improper accounting by Wirecard... |
18.09.2019 | Wirecard Formalizes Strategic Cooperation Agreement With SoftBank | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Wednesday it and a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. (SoftBank) have signed the final documents for the issue and subscription of the Wirecard c... |
20.08.2019 | Wirecard to Collaborate With OYO to Provide Financial Suit For Hotel & Home Booking Payments | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Tuesday it will be exploring collaboration opportunities to provide a suite of financial services to make payments for OYO hotels and home bookin... |
19.07.2019 | Europe’s most valuable Fintechs in 2019 | Globally recognised as a hot investment sector, FinTech is one of the fastest-growing areas for venture capitalists. In a recent development, N26, a leading mobile banking startup raised another $170 million (€150 million), an extension of ... |
17.07.2019 | PayTech Awards 2019 winners announced! | The second annual PayTech Awards took place on 5 July 2019 at the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), a unique historic venue in the heart of London
It was hosted by the witty Jo Caulfield and was a wonderful celebration of excellence and i... |
11.06.2019 | Liquid.com to exclusively offer Telegram Open Network token, Gram, via Public Token Sale | - |
17.05.2019 | Wirecard Extends Collaboration With Paris’ Printemps By Boosting WeChat Pay Acceptance | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced this week it has extended its collaboration with Paris department stores Printemps by boosting WeChat Pay acceptance. According to Wirecard, the Wir... |
16.05.2019 | «Anna, оплати мой счёт»: российские предприниматели запустили банковский помощник в Англии и привлекли $18 млн Статьи редакции... | Бизнес-бот Anna Money придумали сооснователи «Точки» и «Кнопки», бывший директор по продукту сервисов «Альфа-банка», а также владельцы Octoberry и Magneta.ai.
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25.04.2019 | Wirecard to Receive €900M Investment from SoftBank | Wirecard AG, a near Munich, Germany-based digital financial technology company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DAX and TecDAX), is to receive a €900m investment from SoftBank Group Corp., via a convertible bond mechanism.
Wirecard s... |
24.04.2019 | SoftBank invests €900m in Wirecard for APAC push | Japan’s tech giant SoftBank says it will invest €900 million in Wirecard, the German digital payments company. The Japanese firm has signed a convertible bond mechanism, which will see it buying five-year Wirecard bonds that can convert int... |
24.04.2019 | Wirecard lands $1 billion investment from Japan's Softbank | By Caroline Copley
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Japan’s Softbank Group Corp will invest around 900 million euros ($1 billion) in Wirecard in a convertible bond deal that could give it a 5.6 percent stake in the German digital payments comp... |
24.04.2019 | SoftBank to invest $1B into German digital payments provider Wirecard in new fintech partnership | SoftBank is making a huge investment into one of the providers of the kind of digital commerce infrastructure that underpins many of the companies that it backs. Today, Wirecard — a digital payments provider based out of Germany — announced... |
24.04.2019 | Term Sheet April 24, Softbank in Germany, Crypto Bets, and Brazil Rising | LATAM RISING
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24.04.2019 | Softbank invests €900 million in Germany’s Wirecard | German digital payments company Wirecard has secured a colossal €900 million in funding from Softbank’s Vision Fund. Structured as a convertible bond, the deal may result in Softbank owning 5.6 percent of Wirecard’s stock after five years.
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24.04.2019 | Softbank to invest €900m for stake in digital payments firm Wirecard | |
24.04.2019 | Top startup news for today, Wednesday, April 24, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Wednesday, April 24.
SoftBank to invest $1 billion for a 6% stake in German payments startup Wirecard. The Japanese tech giant, SoftBank, is investing $1 billion ... |
28.03.2019 | German payments-company Wirecard is suing the Financial Times for its coverage | Reuters
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The German payments-company Wirecard is suing the Financial Times over its investigative reports into its business practice, according to Reuters.
Wirecard has been the focus of a series of articles in the Financial Ti... |
20.03.2019 | Wirecard Study Reveals: U.S. Businesses Want a Single Digital Platform For E-Commerce Success | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard recently announced the release of its latest study, which revealed that U.S. businesses want a single digital platform for e-commerce success.
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20.02.2019 | Wirecard Teams Up With Tirol Werbung to Launch China Pay Initiative | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Wednesday it has formed a new partnership with Tirol Werbung, the tourism organization of the Austrian state of Tyrol, are launching a new China ... |
23.01.2019 | «Как Spotify или Uber, только в финтехе»: история первого мобильного банка N26 Статьи редакции | Привлечение инвестиций, получение европейской банковской лицензии и выход на рынок США.
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22.01.2019 | Mooncard raises $5.7 million for its expense platform | French startup Mooncard raised a $5.7 million funding round (€5 million) from Raise Ventures, Aglaé Ventures and business angels. The company provides a service to track and manage your company’s expenses with the help of good old plastic c... |
05.11.2018 | Wirecard Expansion: Bring Digital Fintech Platform Services to Australia & New Zealand | Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Monday it is bringing its digital fintech platform to Australia and New Zealand. Wirecard reported its platform is now available in New Zealand f... |
28.08.2018 | 4 reasons to embrace AI’s impact on the point of sale | Presented by Wirecard
Consumers are no longer tethered to the cash register — a fact that we widely recognize and embrace. What can more often go unnoticed is that merchants are no longer tethered to the traditional POS, either. Now every p... |
06.06.2018 | Wirecard Extends Partnership With Visa For Digital Payment Solutions | Digital financial technology platform Wirecard announced on Tuesday it has extended its partnership agreement with credit card giant Visa for new solutions in digital financial technology. It was reported that in partnership with Visa, Wire... |
08.01.2018 | 10 Defining moments that shaped the 2017 South African startup ecosystem | 2017 in South Africa is a very hard year to define… Most people are limping into 2018 battle-scar ridden and trying to figure out what the hell just happened?!
Bitcoin highs and Steinhoff lows, neighbouring coup-non-coups, Rugby World Cup ... |
08.01.2018 | 10 Defining moments that shaped the 2017 South African startup ecosystem | 2017 in South Africa is a very hard year to define… Most people are limping into 2018 battle-scar ridden and trying to figure out what the hell just happened?!
Bitcoin highs and Steinhoff lows, neighbouring coup-non-coups, Rugby World Cup h... |
06.04.2017 | Meet the 15 startups that made it to the finals of our pitch competition on April 13 in Berlin | On April 13 we’ll host the EU-Startups Conference 2017 at the HTW Audimax in Berlin. Aside of fireside chats with inspiring founders, interesting speeches, and networking opportunities, we’ll have an exciting pitch competition with 15 promi... |
04.04.2017 | Wirecard AG acquires MyGate Communications | Payments solution Wirecard has acquired 100% of payment service provider MyGate‘s shares.
“Over the last couple of years we had quite a few companies wanting to acquire MyGate. We were looking for the right payment partner that could help a... |
04.04.2017 | Wirecard AG acquires MyGate Communications | Payments solution Wirecard has acquired 100% of payment service provider MyGate‘s shares.
“Over the last couple of years we had quite a few companies wanting to acquire MyGate. We were looking for the right payment partner that could help ... |
23.03.2017 | German Wirecard acquires the online shopping tool Supr | Munich-based financial services company Wirecard has announced its acquisition of the online shopping tool Supr. Wirecard had previously been working with the digital startup and processing its online payments for some time. The amount of t... |
21.07.2016 | Number26 is now a true bank as it now has a full banking license | Berlin-based startup Number26 is trying to reinvent the bank. This might sound crazy, and that’s why the startup has processed step by step. After partnering with Wirecard for the banking back end, attracting 200,000 users and raising tens ... |
02.07.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/2/16 | Workday bought Zaption; Recruit Holdings purchased Simply Hired; Buddy Platform acquired Zentri
Buddy Platform, a platform for collecting and processing Internet of Things data, acquired Zentri, an Internet of Things connected product platf... |
21.06.2016 | Number26 raises another $40 million for its vision for the future of banking | Berlin-based startup Number26 just raised a $40 million Series B round led by Horizons Ventures. With 200,000 clients, Number26 wants to become a major consumer-facing bank in Europe providing all the services you’d expect from your bank. A... |
18.04.2016 | Apple Pay is now available in Singapore | Apple has launched Apple Pay in Singapore today, making it the second country in Asia after China to get the digital payment service.
Apple Pay lets customers pay for physical and digital goods using their iPhone, iPad or Apple watch, but i... |
22.02.2016 | Wirecard Acquires Moip Pagamentos, for €23.5M | Wirecard AG (Frankfurt Securities Exchange: TecDAX, ISIN DE0007472060, WDI), a Munich-Germany-based software and IT specialist for outsourcing and white label solutions for payment processing and issuing products, acquired Brazilian interne... |
02.04.2015 | Banking On Southeast Asia’s E-Commerce Future | Aung Kyaw Moe Contributor
Editor’s note: Aung Kyaw Moe is the founder and Group CEO at 2C2P.
China’s e-commerce, m-commerce and payments lead the world. It is the largest e-commerce market (KPMG), and is home to Alibaba, with its US$25 bill... |
01.10.2013 | Wirecard selects CorFire™ technology to deploy NFC-enabled payments and TSM solution | London,UK October 1st , 2013 — CorFire, the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA and an industry leader in mobile commerce technology, today announced the collaboration with Wirecard AG, a global leader in payment innovations, to allo... |
- | Wirecard reveals €1.9bn cash missing in ‘spurious’ circumstances | Following allegations of accounting fraud, Wirecard’s publication of its financial results for 2019 have been delayed due to “spurious” balance confirmations.
Today (18 June), the payments firm is being open and reveals that its auditor Ern... |
- | Wirecard’s independent audit claims no accounting fraud | German payments firm Wirecard says it has found “no incriminating evidence” about the publicly raised accusations into balance sheet manipulation.
Today (28 April), Wirecard was handed the report on the special investigation by the auditing... |
- | Wirecard apresenta compra digitalizada em lojas físicas | A Wirecard, empresa de inovação em tecnologia financeira digital, continua investindo na expansão da experiência do cliente no varejo com a nova 360° Retail Experience, um protótipo de tela interativa para lojas com tecnologia de pagamento ... |
- | Alemã Wirecard apresenta pedido de insolvência | O Conselho de Administração da Wirecard, sede alemã da empresa, decidiu hoje apresentar um pedido de abertura de processo de insolvência no Tribunal Local competente de Munique, que ocorre quando a empresa não pode cumprir suas obrigações d... |