The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced on Wednesday 15 July that it will further assess the response of the German regulator, BaFin, and the German Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (FREP) to the accounting scandal involving the German payment service provider Wirecard (see EUROPE B12512A15).
“Quality financial information is essential for investors to have confidence in the capital markets and Wirecard’s bankruptcy undermined that confidence. It is therefore...