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Dan McCrum joined the Financial Times in 2007. He has covered business and finance from both sides of the Atlantic, and has a particular interest in accounting fraud and corporate misbehaviour.
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  • 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

  • Monday, 22 November, 2021
    Globo PLC
    FCA launches UK High Court action against former Globo executives

    Mobile technology group collapsed in 2015 after accusations of accounting fraud

  • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    ‘They tried to destroy me’: Wirecard’s reluctant whistleblower tells his story

    Pav Gill, who exposed one of Europe’s biggest corporate frauds, says doing the right thing ‘always has a cost’

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    Wirecard AG
    KPMG was engaged as auditor to group used in suspicious Wirecard deals

    Accountancy firm had second thoughts about working with Mauritian-based fund

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