244 results about this entity
Period: 18 May 2007 - 28 Feb 2024
News/regulation
Pav Gill, the whistleblower who helped demolish German payment processor Wirecard, has launched a new platform for employees and shareholders to express their concerns over corporate missteps without fear of retaliation or exposure.
28 February 2024
News/people
On-the-run Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek has been named as the alleged co-ordinater of a Russian spy ring in the UK involving five Bulgarain nationals.
27 September 2023
Accounting firm EY has been banned from accepting companies "of public interest" as new auditing customers in Germany for two years over its failures relating to collapsed payments firm Wirecard.
05 April 2023
Former Wirecard boss Marcus Braun has rejected all charges at his trial connected to the collapse of the German payments giant.
13 February 2023
News/payments
Commerzbank is suing EY for the recovery of €200 million in losses from the collapse of disgraced German payments firm Wirecard.
26 January 2023
The charge sheet against former Wirecard boss Marcus Braun and two other executives runs to 474 pages and will take five hours to read out, in a Munich court case that opens today and is expected to last for a more than a year.
08 December 2022
German prosecutors have charged former Wirecard chief executive Markus Braun in relation to the collapse of the payments firm last year.
14 March 2022
Company announcement/people
Nomu Pay, a Finch Capital funded company, today completed two transactions to acquire Wirecard Payment Solutions Malaysia and Wirecard Payment Solutions Hong Kong, and announced the appointment of Peter Burridge as Group Chief Executive Officer, to be based in Singapore.
12 July 2021
Company announcement/payments
Nium, a leading global payments platform, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wirecard Forex India Pte. Ltd – a foreign currency exchange, pre-paid card, and remittance service provider in India.
09 July 2021
A group of British MPs has warned that the government must avoid the mistakes German regulators made when dealing with failed fintech giant Wirecard.
30 April 2021
Finch Capital, through Nomu Pay, is hoovering up Wirecard assets in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand.
16 April 2021
News/crime
In June 2020, the FCA acted overnight to freeze customer accounts across UK fintech firms including Curve, Pockit, Soldo, Anna Money and Holvi, after Wirecard Card Solution’s (WCS) parent company filed for insolvency in Germany.
15 April 2021
Finch Capital, through Nomu Pay, a vehicle that invests in payment assets, has today reached an agreement to acquire Wirecard Ödeme Ve Elektronik Para Hizmetleri (Wirecard Turkey).
30 March 2021
Felix Hufeld, the head of German's financial regulatory body BaFin, has been relieved of his job after a chronic mishandling of the Wirecard scandal.
29 January 2021
Equals (AIM:EQLS), the technology-led international payments group focused on the SME marketplace, is pleased to provide the following trading update for the period up to 30 November 2020.
01 December 2020
Banco Santander has acquired technology assets from the European merchant payments business of disgraced German payments processor Wirecard.
17 November 2020
Europe's top regulatory body has issued a stinging indictment of the German financial supervisory regime which allowed bankrupt payment processor Wirecard to hoodwink investors for years.
03 November 2020
The break up of the scandal-ridden Wirecard empire continues, with the sale of its North American business to Syncapay.
23 October 2020
xpate, the startup set on revolutionising payments with one unified account for all payment methods and innovative drag and drop interface, announces its appointment of Wirecard’s former Head of Sales Digital UK and Ireland, Wayne Mckenzie.
13 October 2020
Bulgarian e-money institution Paynetics has acquired the corporate payout card portfolio of Wirecard UK and Ireland.
09 October 2020
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