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    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Technology sector
      LinkedIn has a fake commenter problem

      On the internet, nobody knows you bought a dog

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      THG PLC
      Audit matters at THG

      Why EY identified “a potential risk of bias or fraud through management manipulation by manual adjustments”

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Airlines
      Private jet disrupter: the debt-fuelled ascent of Thomas Flohr’s VistaJet

      Lossmaking airline’s founder has become an aviation superstar as his company amassed a fleet of luxury aircraft

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard suit against Indian group can proceed, High Court rules

      Two former shareholders in a business sold to the payments company allege they were defrauded

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      News in-depthEmbracer Group
      Embracer: gaming ‘roll-up’ battles claims of aggressive accounting

      Lars Wingefors created Europe’s biggest gaming company with an acquisitive strategy that has attracted short sellers

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
      Inside the boardroom bust-up that shook Scottish Mortgage

      Amar Bhidé’s exit from UK’s biggest investment trust highlights tensions over strategy after share slide

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
      Scottish Mortgage seeks non-executive’s exit after boardroom clash

      Amar Bhidé says he disagreed with chair over process to appoint two new board members

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Wirecard AG
      Indian group fights Wirecard fraud claim in London court

      Hearing comes in litigation over a series of transactions allegedly arranged by co-founder of IIFL Wealth

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      News in-depthWirecard AG
      The high-living entrepreneur brought low by his links to Wirecard

      Prosecutors allege James Henry O’Sullivan secretly controlled companies that were used to inflate profits and siphon off cash

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Wirecard AG
      Kroll and Jones Day accused of conspiracy to protect Wirecard

      Short seller claims ‘campaign of harassment’ aimed to deter him from reporting on now collapsed German group

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      News in-depthTechnology sector
      Silicon Valley Bank profit squeeze in tech downturn attracts short sellers

      California institution that serves start-up scene under scrutiny over investments that have left it with unrealised $15bn loss

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Darktrace
      Darktrace shares dive after short seller attack

      UK cyber group accused of irregular accounting practices by Quintessential Capital Management

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      News in-depthWirecard AG
      A philosophical dilemma for Wirecard’s fast-living chief witness

      Former manager must convince the court that businesses he ran in Asia did not exist

    • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
      UK banks
      How banks and regulators reacted to the UK bond market meltdown

      The aftermath of the crisis reveals the various ways lenders are exposed to gilt prices

    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      EY
      Whistleblowers accuse EY of whitewashing suspicious trades at longstanding client

      Two trades created for a workers co-op and a mystery €120,000 payment are central to internal row at Leonteq

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Hedge funds
      Founders of Gotham and Portsea join forces in new short selling fund

      Names known for bets against Wirecard and Steinhoff hope markets downturn will help them replicate earlier successes

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Due Diligence
      The hedge fund billionaire playing activist at his former firm Premium content

      Plus, bankers and lawyers search for a way around Biden’s new buyback tax and controversial financier Lars Windhorst tells DD he’s good for the money

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Signature Bank
      Signature Bank bet big on crypto — and must now reckon with the crash

      The best-performing US bank of last year has seen its share price tumble

    • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard forged client details to secure €900mn investment from SoftBank

      Collapsed German payments group fabricated data to reassure Japanese investor

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Why we trust fraudsters

      From Enron to Wirecard, elaborate scams can remain undetected long after the warning signs appear. What are investors missing?

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard middleman pleads guilty to hacking

      Hedge funds, researchers and journalists among targets of personalised phishing mails

    • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
      EY
      EY revives the big-budget corporate shindig with Florida theme park trip

      Companies had scaled back lavish galas amid pandemic restrictions and climate commitments

    • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard: the case against Markus Braun

      The former chief executive of the German payments company that went bust with debts of €3bn faces fraud charges

    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
      Celsius Network Ltd
      Israeli judge lifts gagging order revealing Celsius Network CFO’s arrest

      Yaron Shalem was one of 10 detained in connection with alleged fraud at other cryptocurrency ventures

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      German prosecutors file first charges in Wirecard fraud

      Authorities last month charged business associate of former payments group executive Jan Marsalek

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