When the Financial Times revealed in May that a large chunk of the money that went missing from Wirecard weeks before its collapse may have passed through a Lithuanian payments company, it prompted an immediate reaction.
Across Europe, a disorderly queue quickly formed of those dying to say: “I told you so.” This included, but was by no means limited to, politicians in Berlin and Vilnius and regulators elsewhere on the continent.
The speed with which they jumped on the story was telling.
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