Börse Express – WDH / Kreise: Visa and Mastercard are considering ending cooperation with Wirecard

(Wirecard added in the heading)

NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – The credit card provider Visa
and Mastercard According to insiders, rethink their business relationships with the payment service provider Wirecard, which is involved in a billion scandal . Corporations are considering depriving Wirecard of the ability to route payments through their networks, the Bloomberg news agency wrote on Thursday evening, citing individuals familiar with the matter. Some Wirecard customers have already been contacted to prepare them for this option.

Wirecard filed for bankruptcy on Thursday due to over-indebtedness and impending insolvency. For the Aschheimers, the auditing firm EY, which audited the 2019 annual financial statements, assumes serious crime on a quasi global scale: “There is clear evidence that it is a comprehensive fraud involving several parties around the world and in various institutions were involved with deliberate deception, “explained EY in Stuttgart./mis/ck

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