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Money men : a hot startup, a billion dollar fraud, a fight for the truth / Dan McCrum.
Van Pelt Library HV8079.C65 M33 2022
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Lippincott Library - Business Trends HV8079.C65 M33 2022
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCrum, Dan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wirecard (Firm).
- Electronic funds transfers--Corrupt practices--Germany.
- Electronic funds transfers.
- Fraud--Germany.
- Fraud.
- Electronic funds transfers--Corrupt practices.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bantam Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "When investigative journalist Dan McCrum first came across Wirecard, the hot new tech company that looked poised to challenge Silicon Valley, it all looked a little too good to be true- offices were sprouting up all over the world, they were reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs (or perhaps Elizabeth Holmes). In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market. As McCrum began to dig deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more compelling than he could have imagined- a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. Before long he realised that he wasn't the only one in pursuit. Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London, high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss, and he even received a criminal complaint from financial regulators. Now the race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Smoke in the office
- The Ponzi guy
- Bloody knuckles
- Fake trees
- Who is Jan Marsalek?
- The entertainment business
- Friends like these
- Ghosts in Manama
- That's all bullshit
- On the make in India
- Rabble and strife
- The fȧades shake
- A rush of blood
- Friend or foe?
- Freaking out
- Black truffles
- Defenestrated
- The reluctant whistleblower
- Notes from the bunker
- Manipulated
- Bearing witness
- Manilla envelope
- SoftBank to the rescue
- Empty chairs and empty tables
- Gold-plated
- Caught in the trap
- Attack and retreat
- Exocet
- Chasing the joker
- Tradecraft
- Closing the border
- Police escort
- Desperate punches
- Show me the money.
- Notes:
- Includes index
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781787635043
- 178763504X
- OCLC:
- 1249796822
- Publisher Number:
- 99991091627
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