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SoftBank Wants Out Of Wirecard Partnership After Last Year’s $1B Investment
July 01, 2020

SoftBank is looking to put distance between itself and Wirecard due to the German payments company’s ongoing scandal involving missing money and cooked books, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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BaFin Head Says Regulator Had Limited Ability To Regulate Wirecard
July 01, 2020

The president of Germany’s financial watchdog agency defended its actions in the Wirecard AG case where $1.2 billion in deposits went missing. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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Luckin Wraps Probe Into $300M In Fake Coffee Sales
July 01, 2020

Luckin Coffee announced on Wednesday (July 1) the completion of an internal probe that blames the company’s former CEO and COO for inflating the embattled Chinese java giant’s revenue and expenses by hundreds of millions of dollars. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Police Raid Wirecard’s Offices In Two Countries
July 01, 2020

A team of investigators raided Wirecard AG’s offices in two countries as part of the probe into the 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) that went missing from the payments company’s accounts, Bloomberg News reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Internal Doc: Half Of Wirecard’s Sales Came From Just 100 Clients
June 30, 2020

A summary of Wirecard’s customers in 2017 suggests that just 100 clients represented over 50 percent of its real sales, the Financial Times reported, citing an internal spreadsheet. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

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Former Wirecard Execs Face Criminal Charges In Austria
June 30, 2020

The Wirecard AG accounting scandal has extended its reach to Austria. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing...

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BIS: Wirecard Debacle Could Trigger Revamp Of Payment Regs
June 30, 2020

The stunning demise of Germany’s Wirecard AG could lead to a revamp of some of the rules governing the international payments sector, which has seen rapid growth in recent years, though a key player says it is still too early to say. Get the Full...

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Wirecard Reopens UK Banking As Regulators Remove Restrictions
June 30, 2020

Wirecard AG got the green light Tuesday (June 30) to resume its banking operations in the United Kingdom (UK), as financial regulators lifted restrictions that had been placed on the troubled German payments company four days ago. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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UK Digital Banking Apps Affected By Wirecard Subsidiary Freeze
June 29, 2020

After the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) mandated that Wirecard’s British Wirecard Card Solutions unit stop conducting regulated work, a number of consumers in the U.K. haven’t been able to get ahold of their cash, CNBC reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...