{"id":39798,"date":"2020-07-07T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/07\/sinking-bank-throws-life-preserver-to-drowning-fraudulent-payments-company\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:06:00","slug":"sinking-bank-throws-life-preserver-to-drowning-fraudulent-payments-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/07\/sinking-bank-throws-life-preserver-to-drowning-fraudulent-payments-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinking Bank Throws Life Preserver To Drowning Fraudulent Payments Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4221-imgpsh_fullsize_anim.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s hard to imagine that there could be a German company in worse shape than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2019\/07\/deutsche-bank-in-very-deep-schiesse\">Deutsche Bank<\/a>, but there&rsquo;s a lot about payments company Wirecard that is hard to imagine. There&rsquo;s the missing and quite probably imaginary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2020\/06\/opening-bell-6-26-2020\">$2 billion<\/a>, the CEO under arrest, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-wirecard-accounts-arrests\/german-prosecutors-arrest-head-of-wirecards-dubai-unit-idUSKBN2471ST\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other arrests<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/wirecards-adventure-seeking-no-2-was-key-to-the-firms-rapid-rise-then-he-disappeared-11593798856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">missing COO&nbsp;<\/a>(whose entry into the Philippines&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/wirecard-executives-entry-into-philippines-might-have-been-faked-11593781154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may have been as imaginary<\/a>&nbsp;as that $2 billion), the almost too-good-to-be-true&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2020\/06\/opening-bell-6-23-2020\">connections to SoftBank and Credit Suisse<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-wirecard-accounts\/police-raid-wirecard-hq-as-administrator-kicks-off-asset-sales-idUSKBN2424H3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police raids<\/a>, the whole&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f697a093-4e1b-4ef4-9b16-820198e4a67f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hopelessly foreseeable nature of the matter<\/a>&nbsp;that no one could or would foresee.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of all the above, you might expect Christian Sewing &amp; co. to take a deep breath, perhaps enjoy a wry smile and a sense of relief knowing that there but for the grace of Gott go they, and go the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/softbank-seeks-to-end-partnership-with-wirecard-11593627705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masa Son route<\/a>&nbsp;of trying to put as much distance between themselves and the unfolding catastrophe down in Munich. Instead, it&rsquo;s decided to go the other way and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/02\/business\/wirecard-deutsche-bank.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offer a helping hand&nbsp;<\/a>to a fellow sufferer of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2018\/11\/its-difficult-to-hear-christian-sewing-brag-about-deutsche-banks-rebirth-what-with-all-those-police-sirens-blaring-outside-deutsche-bank-hq\">unwelcome visits by the police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m-blockquote\">\n<p>&ldquo;We are, in principle, prepared to provide this support,&rdquo; said Sebastian Kr&auml;mer-Bach, a Deutsche Bank spokesman, &ldquo;if such assistance should become necessary.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The lender said the offer was being discussed with Germany&rsquo;s financial regulatory agency and the insolvency administrator currently running Wirecard&rsquo;s affairs&hellip;. The statement was perhaps the first bit of good news for Wirecard since the company, once a rising star of Germany&rsquo;s tech scene providing digital payment services across the globe, imploded two weeks ago after its auditor could not find 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) listed in the company&rsquo;s books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2019\/07\/deutsche-bank-in-very-deep-schiesse\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2019\/07\/deutsche-bank-in-very-deep-schiesse<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>JON SHAZAR<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>JON SHAZAR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4221-imgpsh_fullsize_anim.png\" alt=\"\">It&rsquo;s hard to imagine that there could be a German company in worse shape than&nbsp;Deutsche Bank, but there&rsquo;s a lot about payments company Wirecard that is hard to imagine. There&rsquo;s the missing and quite probably imaginary&nbsp;$2 billion, the CEO under arrest, the&nbsp;other arrests, the&nbsp;missing COO&nbsp;(whose entry into the Philippines&nbsp;may have been as imaginary&nbsp;as that $2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/07\/sinking-bank-throws-life-preserver-to-drowning-fraudulent-payments-company\/\">Continue reading <span>Sinking Bank Throws Life Preserver To Drowning Fraudulent Payments Company<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/07\/sinking-bank-throws-life-preserver-to-drowning-fraudulent-payments-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sinking Bank Throws Life Preserver To Drowning Fraudulent Payments Company - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/07\/sinking-bank-throws-life-preserver-to-drowning-fraudulent-payments-company\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sinking Bank Throws Life Preserver To Drowning Fraudulent Payments Company - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&rsquo;s hard to imagine that there could be a German company in worse shape than&nbsp;Deutsche Bank, but there&rsquo;s a lot about payments company Wirecard that is hard to imagine. 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