(Reuters) - German payments firm Wirecard collapsed in June after its auditor EY refused to sign off on the 2019 accounts, following months of investigation into missing 1.9 billion euros from its ...

Wirecard has announced it will lay off 730 out of its 1,300 staff in Germany following a $2.1 billion scandal that left the company insolvent in June. According to an Aug. 25 report from Law360, ...

Markus Braun, who resigned last week as CEO of Wirecard, has now been arrested in Germany on charges of accounting fraud and manipulating the share price, says Simon Foy in The Daily Telegraph. He has ...

Wirecard’s former CEO Markus Braun Tuesday morning turned himself in to Munich prosecutors, who arrested him on “suspicion of false accounting and market manipulation. The prosecutors are accusing Mr.

Markus Braun was the self-styled visionary behind German payments giant Wirecard AG. An instantly recognizable fixture at tech conferences, recently adopting Steve Jobs-style black turtlenecks, Mr.