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Wirecard: Germany’s financial crime unit failed to pass on reports of suspicious trading

Roger Baird

Germany’s financial crime unit handed police “only two” of a 1,000 reports it had about suspicious trading activity at Wirecard before the payments firm collapsed in June. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) passed on only a couple of reports about the former fintech champion before June, according to the Munich public prosecutor on Tuesday. Wirecard…

Wirecard stock plunges almost 50%, says €1.9bn of missing cash does not exist

Roger Baird

Scandal-hit German firm Wirecard warned investors that the €1.9bn it has spent the last several weeks searching its banks for probably does not exist. The fintech payments firm said it would probe whether its trustees who set up the cash fund acted for the “benefit of the company”, it added in a statement on Monday….

Lufthansa and Air France follow US rivals into bailout talks

European biggest airlines Deutsche Lufthansa and Air France agreed to get government support to survive in a challenging environment that has forced them to ground the majority of aircraft, leaving them to burn millions of euros in staff and maintenance costs. Air France agreed to a €7bn bailout from the French government. The bailout package,…