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Money Men

A Hot Startup, A Billion-Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

Dan McCrum Bantam Press, £20

The implosion of German payment-processing company Wirecard was one of the biggest financial scandals of recent times. At its peak, the company was worth $27bn and regarded as one of Europe’s leading “fintechs”. Then, just weeks after it reported that €1.9bn was missing from its balance sheet, it was forced to

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