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    Dan McCrum

    Investigative reporter

    Dan McCrum joined the Financial Times in 2007. He has covered business and finance from both sides of the Atlantic, and has a particular interest in accounting fraud and corporate misbehaviour.

    His acclaimed book Money Men: a hot startup, a billion dollar fraud, a fight for the truth was made into the Netflix feature documentary Skandal! Bringing down Wirecard.

    Dan has won more than a dozen prizes for his reporting, including Journalist of the Year at the 2020 British Journalism Awards.

    Email Dan McCrum @FD  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Secret paper trail reveals hidden Adani investors

      Global growth is set to slow next year after outperforming economists’ expectations in 2023

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Adani Group
      Adani shares slide and politicians demand action after reports on hidden investors

      Revelations exposed opaque offshore structures that shielded some of the Indian group’s largest shareholders from public sight

    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      Secret paper trail reveals hidden Adani investors

      Following claims of share price manipulation, new documents uncover potentially controversial shareholders in one of India’s biggest conglomerates

      A composite image of Vinod and Gautam Adani against a backdrop of Dubai and Bermuda
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Wirecard AG
      Singapore hands down first Wirecard criminal convictions

      Two former executives given jail sentences related to collapse of once high-flying German payments group

      The logo of Wirecard pictured at its headquarters in Aschheim, near Munich, Germany
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Technology sector
      LinkedIn has a fake commenter problem

      On the internet, nobody knows you bought a dog

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      THG PLC
      Audit matters at THG

      Why EY identified “a potential risk of bias or fraud through management manipulation by manual adjustments”

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Airlines
      Private jet disrupter: the debt-fuelled ascent of Thomas Flohr’s VistaJet

      Lossmaking airline’s founder has become an aviation superstar as his company amassed a fleet of luxury aircraft

      A montage of photos of Thomas Flohr and a Vistajet with the Vistajet logo and the US dollar in the background
    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard suit against Indian group can proceed, High Court rules

      Two former shareholders in a business sold to the payments company allege they were defrauded

      Wirecard offices in Germany
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      News in-depthEmbracer Group
      Embracer: gaming ‘roll-up’ battles claims of aggressive accounting

      Lars Wingefors created Europe’s biggest gaming company with an acquisitive strategy that has attracted short sellers

      A montage of a photo of Lars Wingefors amd the logos of Sin City, Hellboy and Catan with a chart
    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
      Inside the boardroom bust-up that shook Scottish Mortgage

      Amar Bhidé’s exit from UK’s biggest investment trust highlights tensions over strategy after share slide

      Amar Bhidé, Justin Dowley and Fiona McBain
    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
      Scottish Mortgage seeks non-executive’s exit after boardroom clash

      Amar Bhidé says he disagreed with chair over process to appoint two new board members

      Baillie Gifford’s logo
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Wirecard AG
      Indian group fights Wirecard fraud claim in London court

      Hearing comes in litigation over a series of transactions allegedly arranged by co-founder of IIFL Wealth

      An IIFL Private Wealth logo
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      News in-depthWirecard AG
      The high-living entrepreneur brought low by his links to Wirecard

      Prosecutors allege James Henry O’Sullivan secretly controlled companies that were used to inflate profits and siphon off cash

      James Henry O’Sullivan stands at a private jet
    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Wirecard AG
      Kroll and Jones Day accused of conspiracy to protect Wirecard

      Short seller claims ‘campaign of harassment’ aimed to deter him from reporting on now collapsed German group

      Exterior of Wirecard headquarters
    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      News in-depthTechnology sector
      Silicon Valley Bank profit squeeze in tech downturn attracts short sellers

      California institution that serves start-up scene under scrutiny over investments that have left it with unrealised $15bn loss

      A montage of Greg Becker, chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank, US dollars and the Silicon Valley Bank logo
    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Darktrace
      Darktrace shares dive after short seller attack

      UK cyber group accused of irregular accounting practices by Quintessential Capital Management

      Darktrace logo is seen in the background of a silhouetted woman holding a mobile phone
    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      News in-depthWirecard AG
      A philosophical dilemma for Wirecard’s fast-living chief witness

      Former manager must convince the court that businesses he ran in Asia did not exist

      Oliver Bellenhaus, centre, wearing a mask
    • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
      UK banks
      How banks and regulators reacted to the UK bond market meltdown

      The aftermath of the crisis reveals the various ways lenders are exposed to gilt prices

    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      EY
      Whistleblowers accuse EY of whitewashing suspicious trades at longstanding client

      Two trades created for a workers co-op and a mystery €120,000 payment are central to internal row at Leonteq

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Hedge funds
      Founders of Gotham and Portsea join forces in new short selling fund

      Names known for bets against Wirecard and Steinhoff hope markets downturn will help them replicate earlier successes

      The corporate headquarters of payments processor Wirecard
    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Due Diligence
      The hedge fund billionaire playing activist at his former firm Premium content

      Plus, bankers and lawyers search for a way around Biden’s new buyback tax and controversial financier Lars Windhorst tells DD he’s good for the money

      Due Diligence logo
    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Signature Bank
      Signature Bank bet big on crypto — and must now reckon with the crash

      The best-performing US bank of last year has seen its share price tumble

      A montage of the Signature Bank website on a smartphone, the Bitcoin logo and a bar graph
    • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard forged client details to secure €900mn investment from SoftBank

      Collapsed German payments group fabricated data to reassure Japanese investor

      The logo of German payments provider Wirecard is seen at a building of the company’s headquarters in Aschheim near Munich in 2020
    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Why we trust fraudsters

      From Enron to Wirecard, elaborate scams can remain undetected long after the warning signs appear. What are investors missing?

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard middleman pleads guilty to hacking

      Hedge funds, researchers and journalists among targets of personalised phishing mails

      An illuminated sign at the Wirecard headquarters in Munich
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