On Wednesday 2 December, Steven Maijoor, the Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), presented his peer review on the Wirecard scandal to the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), in which he concludes that there was a series of “failures, inefficiencies and legal and procedural obstacles” in supervision by the German authorities (see EUROPE B12594A5).
Maijoor said that ESMA, which does not have direct supervisory powers with...