Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

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I think there is an element of Anglo-pride which comes through this book and a somewhat disdainful treatment of the German corporate class which while warranted from Dan McCrum's perspective is not entirely fair for the broader German business class. I was too young to understand why he looked like that, but later understood that he knew he was leaving this world. A woeful state of affairs if political élites’ contemporary aspirations involve nurturing an overvalued tech company of questionable social utility.

Money Men tells the story from inside Wirecard's headquarters with entertaining drama and verve, but it also unspools the high-stakes reporting process McCrum and his colleagues carried out at the Financial Times against the odds. As I answered, his eyes never left my face and I knew that he was listening, paying attention to every word I said.

I had worked for years to become a Barrister, and I had never in a million years wanted to work in the rag trade. It was late in the day, starting to get dark, and these people moving quickly through the lengthening shadows were likely headed home to flats along the Thames or by train to London suburbs to enjoy a relaxing evening, or so I imagined. Recommended for people who enjoyed books like Patrick Radden Kieffe's Empire of Pain or John Carreyrou's Bad Blood.

McCrum’s pursuit and the whistleblowers’ courage is made all the more admirable due to the adversity they faced.Outside the office, in the sorting area, a dozen or more men and women in scruffy clothes were weighing and bundling mountains of rags.

If you're in to the genre and interested in financial fraud related true crime you're likely to enjoy it immensely. When the book begins, opening all the way back in 2003, we are almost immediately introduced to a number of important players in the Wirecard game. My mother tugged me by the sleeve, away from dad’s bedside in the Intensive Care Unit and out into the waiting area.Two years later Wirecard acquired its own bank by purchasing XCOM, allowing it to issue its own credit cards. His ambition lay in maintaining, not only the faith but the great traditions of the Jewish community. They’re confronted with opposition from enamoured government regulators, organised crime leg-breakers, morals-for-hire corporate law firms, chummy “auditors”, and unscrupulous private espionage firms. The way Wirecard managed to deceive so many stakeholders it encountered in its path to growth is riveting.