The Wirecard Fraud - How One Man Fooled all of Germany
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This video investigates the rise and fall of Wirecard, tracing its growth from an online payment startup to a DAX 30 company, and its eventual collapse following accounting scandals and missing funds.
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Answers: What caused the collapse of Wirecard?
- Wirecard scandal
- financial fraud
- accounting manipulation
- short-selling
- Fintech industry
What it concludes
- Wirecard's collapse was driven by systemic accounting fraud, fake transactions, and fabricated bank accounts amounting to billions of missing euros.
- The missing 2.1 billion US dollars, equivalent to the entire company's operating profit, likely never existed.
- Regulatory bodies such as BaFin failed to investigate the fraud effectively and instead targeted journalists and short-sellers raising concerns.
- Wirecard used third-party acquiring partners in countries like Singapore, Dubai, and the Philippines to falsely inflate transaction volumes and profits.
- Following an independent audit by KPMG that could not verify profits, Wirecard shares crashed, leading to insolvency, executive arrests, and investigations into criminal activity.
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