Financial Times - EY banned from German audit work for two years after Wirecard scandal

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The Financial Times reports that EY has been banned from taking on any newly listed audit clients in Germany for two years over failures in its work for collapsed payments company Wirecard. Germany’s audit watchdog, Apas, also announced a €500,000 (£439,000) fine for EY, the paper reports.

The front page pictures electric scooters and reports Paris is to ban e-scooters after a poll revealed most want the mode of transport outlawed. 

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