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The case for massive corona-stimulus

Spend fast, spend big. 

By: Dan McCrum

The Wirecard documents, explained

  1. Initiating coverage of SocGen’s Richard-Maxime Beaudoux: “SELL”
  2. There is no Third Bridge sell report on Wirecard
  3. Revisiting Wirecard’s big Indian deal
  4. Dietmar Knöchelmann and the ICC-Cal affair
  5. A brief Wirecard update
  6. JCap on Wirecard: a search for the Asian business
  7. Rupee do: what is Wirecard buying?
  8. Wirecard: a rolling processor gathers no loss
  9. Wirecard – calculating the adjustments
  10. Wirecard: adjust your perspective (part 2)
  11. Wirecard: adjust your perspective (part 1)
  12. Wirecard Gibraltar and an asset rich wind-up
  13. The strange case of Ashazi: Wirecard in Bahrain, via Singapore
  14. The House of Wirecard
  15. The Wirecard documents – Update 2

Follow along with Dan on a tour of the files which point to suspected fraud at a Dax 30 fintech.

By: Dan McCrum

Further reading

By: Dan McCrum

Further Reading

By: Dan McCrum

Mike Ashley is the plain-speaking business hero we need

Mike Ashley is the plain-speaking business hero we need

By: Dan McCrum

Permanent measures to put hole in CFD bucket shops

Permanent measures to put hole in CFD bucket shops

By: Dan McCrum

Further Reading

By: Dan McCrum

Further Reading

By: Dan McCrum

Capitulation is the wrong word for the bitcoin market

  1. BIS trolls bitcoin
  2. Forking hell, crypto is collapsing!
Capitulation is the wrong word for the bitcoin market

By: Dan McCrum

A Black Friday warning

A Black Friday warning

By: Dan McCrum

Further Reading

By: Dan McCrum

A visual tour of the crypto-market right now

A visual tour of the crypto-market right now

By: Dan McCrum

Further reading

By: Dan McCrum

That General Electric smackdown

That General Electric smackdown

By: Dan McCrum

Further Reading

By: Dan McCrum

Further Reading

By: Dan McCrum

Like LinkedIn, but for weed

Like LinkedIn, but for weed

By: Dan McCrum

Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed

  1. Once again Kodak pivots, and the share price explodes
  2. Blockchain: it really is a tough sell
  3. Sterling has not become an emerging market currency
  4. Jeff Ubben/ESG: flip flop
  5. Is this the nuttiest risk factor of all time?
  6. The tech start-up that wants to “validate” the female orgasm
  7. It’s a great time for conspiracy theories to thrive
  8. Let’s call Trump out, but let’s get our facts straight too
  9. Today, in efficient markets
  10. We can’t blame all the indirect health damage on the lockdown
  11. Weirdly, blockchain can’t help combat coronavirus 
  12. Leading ‘UK’ start-ups want a handout too
  13. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  14. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  15. NMC Health: presented without comment
  16. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  17. Michael Milken: financial innovator
  18. Oh no, the death-techers are coming
  19. Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price 
  20. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialism
Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed

By: Dan McCrum

Further Reading

By: Dan McCrum

Flaky Patisserie

Flaky Patisserie

By: Dan McCrum

What a **checks notes** £1.2bn company looks like

By: Dan McCrum

Chancellor's blockchain idea is a desperate scrape of the Brexit barrel

  1. Crypto conferences ain't what they used to be
  2. Another Tory MP gets into crypto, then quits
  3. Is Baroness Mone's true idol Steve Wozniak or Sylvester Stallone?
  4. It's really happening... Woz joins Baroness Mone's blockchain company
  5. The UK parliament's blockchain APPG continues, sans Shapps
  6. The baroness, the ICO fiasco, and enter Steve Wozniak
  7. Grant Shapps resigns from blockchain positions after FTAV discovers secret pay deal
  8. Building a blockchain Britain in Bloxwich, because ...?
Chancellor's blockchain idea is a desperate scrape of the Brexit barrel

By: Dan McCrum and Jemima Kelly

Further reading

By: Dan McCrum

Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle

  1. Once again Kodak pivots, and the share price explodes
  2. Blockchain: it really is a tough sell
  3. Sterling has not become an emerging market currency
  4. Jeff Ubben/ESG: flip flop
  5. Is this the nuttiest risk factor of all time?
  6. The tech start-up that wants to “validate” the female orgasm
  7. It’s a great time for conspiracy theories to thrive
  8. Let’s call Trump out, but let’s get our facts straight too
  9. Today, in efficient markets
  10. We can’t blame all the indirect health damage on the lockdown
  11. Weirdly, blockchain can’t help combat coronavirus 
  12. Leading ‘UK’ start-ups want a handout too
  13. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  14. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  15. NMC Health: presented without comment
  16. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  17. Michael Milken: financial innovator
  18. Oh no, the death-techers are coming
  19. Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price 
  20. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialism
Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle

By: Dan McCrum

Sirius Minerals' accountants would like your attention

Sirius Minerals' accountants would like your attention

By: Dan McCrum

Sirius Minerals needs its small Chinese partners to meet their grand ambitions

Sirius Minerals needs its small Chinese partners to meet their grand ambitions

By: Archie Zhang and Lucy Hornby in Beijing, Dan McCrum and Neil Hume in London

Labour's worker ownership plan looks like a tax plan

Labour's worker ownership plan looks like a tax plan

By: Dan McCrum

Further Reading

By: Dan McCrum

There is no Third Bridge sell report on Wirecard

  1. Initiating coverage of SocGen’s Richard-Maxime Beaudoux: “SELL”
  2. The Wirecard documents, explained
  3. Revisiting Wirecard’s big Indian deal
  4. Dietmar Knöchelmann and the ICC-Cal affair
  5. A brief Wirecard update
  6. JCap on Wirecard: a search for the Asian business
  7. Rupee do: what is Wirecard buying?
  8. Wirecard: a rolling processor gathers no loss
  9. Wirecard – calculating the adjustments
  10. Wirecard: adjust your perspective (part 2)
  11. Wirecard: adjust your perspective (part 1)
  12. Wirecard Gibraltar and an asset rich wind-up
  13. The strange case of Ashazi: Wirecard in Bahrain, via Singapore
  14. The House of Wirecard
  15. The Wirecard documents – Update 2
There is no Third Bridge sell report on Wirecard

By: Dan McCrum

Sky - place your bids tomorrow

Sky - place your bids tomorrow

By: Dan McCrum

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