Press Digest: Financial Times - Dec 22

Wirecard AG

22/12/2022 24:00

Dec 21 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in
the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and
does not vouch for their accuracy.
    Headlines
-EU imposes tough conditions on Germany's Uniper bailout
-Tech giants ditch office space in London and Europe 
-Octopus receives £4.5bln of state support to back Bulb 
takeover
-Chief witness in Wirecard trial denies deleting data before
talking to police
-Guardian hit by suspected ransomware attack
    Overview
-The European Commission said it had approved Germany's 34.5
billion euro plan to recapitalise German natural gas trader
Uniper  UN01.DE  , subject to future divestment, management pay
and acquisitions.   
-Alphabet Inc's Google  GOOGL.O , Meta Platforms Inc  META.O  
and enterprise software giant Salesforce  CRM.N  are among the
US technology groups seeking to abandon leased office space in
London and Dublin.
-Britain will provide up to 4.5 billion pounds to help fund
Octopus Energy's takeover of collapsed energy supplier Bulb and
related energy purchase hedging costs, the government said on
Wednesday.
-The chief witness in the Wirecard AG  WDIG.H  trial, Oliver
Bellenhaus, head of the Dubai-based subsidiary has rejected
allegations that he destroyed incriminating data before
reporting himself to the police.
-Katharine Viner, the Guardian's editor-in-chief, and chief
executive Anna Bateson told staff on Wednesday that they
believed the "serious incident" was "a ransomware attack" but
that they were also considering other possibilities.
 (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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