Posts tagged: Alipay

A Wirecard observation...

Friday, 15 February 2019, 6:05 pm

Betaville's Wirecard series returns!

Why?

Well, after reading today's front page of the Companies & Markets section of the venerable Financial Times about Ant Financial's $700 million purchase of WorldFirst Betaville was struck by the fact that the timing of the deal is rather amusing given that the Chinese group was once suggested as a potential investor/acquirer of 25pc of Wirecard...

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Chinese said to be in talks with Wirecard about purchasing a 25pc stake; could make a move on the whole company - part 3

Monday, 11 July 2016, 6:32 pm

I have a little update on the Wirecard story I wrote about a few weeks ago.

Regular readers will be well aware that about a month ago I broke a story about how Wirecard is/was in talks with a mystery Chinese investor, thought to be China Mobile, about purchasing a 25pc stake in Wirecard or, possibly, the entire company...

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