All the headlines from our Germany Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 7 2020 // Germany’s coalition parties have agreed a package of reforms to financial and accounting rules aimed at avoiding another Wirecard scandal, a document seen by Reuters shows.Lawmakers launched a parliamentary inquiry...
Sep 23 2020 // The world’s largest group of shipping insurers will not insure vessels involved in the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream gas pipeline projects because of the threat of U.S. sanctions.Associations belonging to...
Sep 22 2020 // The U.S. government is falling behind global rivals when it comes to protecting meatpacking workers from Covid-19 infections, even though the nation’s plants were among the first to confront rampant cases across...
Sep 15 2020 // Daimler AG will pay $2.2 billion to resolve a U.S. government diesel emissions cheating investigation and claims from 250,000 U.S. vehicle owners, court documents show.The German automaker and its Mercedes-Benz USA LLC...
Aug 28 2020 // German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that global efforts to combat climate change were insufficient, and that she would accelerate the fight to combat it in coming years.At a news conference, she said the...
Aug 24 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has appointed Dr. Carsten Keune as head of Executive & Professional Lines in Germany. Carsten has more than 20 years of industry experience. He was most recently head of...
Aug 21 2020 // A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed portions of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing Volkswagen AG of defrauding American investors in connection with the automaker’s diesel emissions...
Aug 18 2020 // Germany’s 2020 grain harvest will fall below average for the third year in a row as farmers grapple with extreme weather conditions, the DBV farmer’s association said on Tuesday.The grain harvest this year is...
Aug 18 2020 // PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa— Wynand du Toit’s safari camp in South Africa’s Pilanesberg National Park lies abandoned, its tents ripped open by baboons and its survival in the balance after his...
Aug 6 2020 // DARAG Group Ltd., the Malta-based legacy acquirer, announced the acquisition of Arisa Assurances SA, an automobile and travel insurance company based in Luxembourg.The transaction will be conducted through DARAG’s...
Jul 27 2020 // German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz intends to unveil a reform of the government’s financial oversight, as the widening scandal over the collapse of Wirecard AG reaches the highest levels of Chancellor Angela...
Jul 24 2020 // German prosecutors arrested three former top executives of Wirecard on Wednesday, saying it suspected them of masterminding a criminal racket to fake the company’s accounts and bilk creditors of billions of...
Jul 21 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has named Dr. Frank Amandi as head of Financial Institutions, for Executive and Professional Lines in Germany.Amandi has more than 20 years of experience...
Jul 17 2020 // U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday warned investors in two Russian natural gas pipeline projects that they could face sanctions as the Trump administration seeks to curb the Kremlin’s economic leverage...
Jul 15 2020 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has promoted Rainer Rieger as head of Casualty Germany.Rieger, who has worked with the company since 2015, is replacing Detlef Offenhau who recently...
Jul 10 2020 // At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data...
Jul 7 2020 // BERLIN/FRANKFURT – German prosecutors said on Monday they had arrested the head of a Dubai-based subsidiary of Wirecard, widening the circle of suspects in a multi-billion-dollar fraud investigation into the collapse of...
Jun 29 2020 // A Dutch safety watchdog said Thursday [June 25] that it is “undesirable” for large container ships to use a shipping route through an environmentally sensitive, shallow sea off the coast of the Netherlands,...
Jun 26 2020 // The European Union is investigating Germany’s financial regulator over the collapse of payments company Wirecard in a rare move that heaps embarrassment on Berlin days before it is due to take over the EU’s...
Jun 25 2020 // Wirecard collapsed on Thursday owing creditors almost $4 billion after disclosing a gaping hole in its books in Germany’s worst accounting scandal.The implosion of the payments company came a week after auditor EY...