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Angela Merkel and the business pages Cantillon: Chancellor lobs responsibility for Wirecard fraud into finance minister’s lap about 4 hours ago Listen now 2:36 German chancellor Angela Merkel: “It was right that I mentioned Wirecard on the state visit. At the time, it was about improving access to the Chinese market.” Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   Chancellor Angela Merkel once revealed that, when reading a newspaper, she always turns first to the business p...

German lawmakers seek to grill Merkel over Wirecard scandal by The Associated Press Last Updated Mar 10, 2021 at 7:14 am EDT File - In this Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 file photo German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz arrives for a budget debate as part of a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany. German lawmakers say they plan to question Chancellor Angela Merkel and her deputy about their involvement with the collapsed payment systems provider Wirecard next month. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file) BERLIN — German lawmakers say they plan to q...

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers say they plan to question Chancellor Angela Merkel and her deputy, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, about their involvement with the collapsed payment systems provider Wirecard next month. Members of the parliamentary committee set up to investigate the Wirecard scandal said Wednesday that the long-time chancellor will be summoned to testify on April 23, a day after Scholz, the center-left Social Democrats' candidate to succeed Merkel in this fall's national election. Wirecard filed for protection from creditors through insolvency proceedings in June after admitt...

2020 in Fintech and Alternative Finance: Part 1 By Oliver Smith on Tuesday 29 December 2020 Image source: Glen Carrie on Unsplash. In a year supposed to be all about Brexit uncertainty, instead, fintechs and alternative lenders found themselves dealing with a somewhat more unexpected challenge as the Covid-19 pandemic struck. In this article, we take a look back at the stories which set the pace over the first six months of 2020. January The year kicked off with optimism as Visa woke everyone up from the Christmas slump with its $5.3bn takeover of open banking provider Plaid, while open banki...