https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Auditing group EY on Thursday announced that it was replacing the head of its German office as it moves to "restore trust" following the collapse of fraud-hit payments firm Wirecard. https://www.thelocal.de/20210225/restore-trust-boss-of-german-wirecard-office-replaced-following-scandal Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:50:35 +0100 restore-trust-boss-of-german-wirecard-office-replaced-following-scandal German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz came under fire Friday after documents showed he knew about suspicions of misconduct at disgraced payments company Wirecard as early as 2019. https://www.thelocal.de/20200717/german-finance-minister-scholz-under-fire-over-wirecard-warnings Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:09:03 +0200 german-finance-minister-scholz-under-fire-over-wirecard-warnings Philippine immigration officers falsified records to show ex-Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek briefly visited the country after he was sacked from the collapsed German payments processor, the justice minister said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20200704/philippine-officials-faked-data-showing-ex-wirecard-exec-in-country Sat, 04 Jul 2020 15:22:25 +0200 philippine-officials-faked-data-showing-ex-wirecard-exec-in-country The European Commission has asked the EU financial authority to probe whether German regulators were at fault in the build-up to the spectacular collapse of payments provider Wirecard. https://www.thelocal.de/20200627/unparalleled-scandal-brussels-probes-german-regulator-over-wirecard-collapse Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:34:52 +0200 unparalleled-scandal-brussels-probes-german-regulator-over-wirecard-collapse German payments provider Wirecard filed for insolvency Thursday, just days after admitting €1.9 billion missing from its accounts likely "do not exist" and its ex-CEO was arrested. https://www.thelocal.de/20200625/five-things-to-know-about-the-wirecard-scandal Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:45:40 +0200 five-things-to-know-about-the-wirecard-scandal The former chief executive of Wirecard, Markus Braun, has been arrested on suspicion of market manipulation, German prosecutors said Tuesday, after the payments provider admitted that €1.9 billion missing from its accounts likely "do not exist". https://www.thelocal.de/20200623/former-ceo-of-scandal-hit-wirecard-arrested-in-germany Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:24:29 +0200 former-ceo-of-scandal-hit-wirecard-arrested-in-germany The founder and chief executive of scandal-hit Wirecard resigned on Friday after the German payments provider was hit with fresh fraud allegations that have left it struggling for survival. https://www.thelocal.de/20200620/wirecard-founder-makes-bombshell-resignation-over-fraud-probe Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:49:45 +0200 wirecard-founder-makes-bombshell-resignation-over-fraud-probe