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Fine is setback for Germany’s largest lender as it seeks to restore its reputation

Liquidators have completed two reports on Dublin firm’s collapse

Olaf Scholz reacts to searches targeting party ministries two weeks before election

Funding part of €8bn plan including training and fraud detection initiatives

Deal will also see Japanese group take stake in German telecoms operator

Lawsuit over losses to be watched closely by many including group’s former shareholders

Oliver Bellenhaus tells German prosecutors he set up shell firms at Jan Marsalek’s behest

Over 20,000 investors in total committed savings into Charles Smethurst’s GPG

Shorts ‘play important role in detecting not just overpricing, but also fraud’ – study

Heike Pauls had briefed managers at payment group about hedge fund’s criticism

Despite the David v Goliath portrayal, Redditors’ moral outrage is misplaced

Glowing assessments adorned last annual reports of Wirecard and Carillion before they imploded

Credit rating agency to expand how it evaluates lenders’ riskiness amid raft of scandals

Grant Thornton managing partner is optimistic about life after Covid

Audit partners signed off accounts despite warnings from colleagues

Former EY partner Andreas Loetscher moves as prosecutors examine audits

Garda bureau investigating whether escrow account ever actually existed

Liquidators appointed as gardaí investigate whether escrow account actually existed

Andreas Loetscher was one of EY partners responsible for audits at failed payments group

Move significantly escalates legal and reputational risks for accounting firm

Prime minister ‘not a natural leader’, says Lionel Barber, as Cummings and Cain exit

Jan Marsalek disappaeared the day he was fired as details of €3bn fraud emerged

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Electronic payments provider is subject to investigation in Germany over alleged fraud

Former US official who took over at e-payments giant urges businesses to be open

Employee at payments group’s longtime auditor flagged suspicious accounting and attempted bribery in 2016

MPs want to know when government first knew about irregularities at payments firm

Government TD asks Minister to direct National Transport Authority to get involved

App promised drivers unpaid fares would be processed ‘over the weekend’

Some $1bn thought to have been funnelled out of scandal-hit payments group

Markets report: European travel and leisure index sinks to two-month low

Implosion of Germany’s Wirecard may prompt another attempt at audit reforms, experts say

Executive detained weeks after collapse of once high-flying German technology group

Stocktake: Shorts had to pay high interest fees in order to bet against Wirecard

Management board later passed over consultancy for compliance work in favour of PwC

Irish offices were raided as part of an international fraud investigation

Shake-up comes after audit concern in serie sof high profiel corporate collapses

Subdued day on Euronext Dublin sees most stocks fall 2%

Some 50,000 customer had faced disruption as payments frozen amid scandal

Parent company filed for insolvency in Germany following €1.9bn hole in balance sheet