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Wirecard

FintechGermanyClosed 2020

Total Raised

Undisclosed

Peak Valuation

$24B

Employees

5,800

Year Collapsed

2020

Business model

Digital payment processing for merchants globally.

In brief

A German payments processor that grew into a DAX-30 index member, Wirecard collapsed in June 2020 after auditors found that €1.9 billion supposedly held in trustee accounts in the Philippines did not exist. The revelation exposed years of fabricated revenue from fictitious Asian…

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Key facts

Founded
1999
Closed
2020
Headquarters
Aschheim, Germany
Industry
Fintech
Employees
5,800
Revenue
$2.80B

Related failures

Often compared with: Adyen, Stripe, Worldpay.