Press Digest: Financial Times - Jan 14

Wirecard AG

14/01/2022 24:37

Jan 14 (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
    - Prince Andrew to lose royal titles in latest fallout from
Epstein ties https://on.ft.com/3trHhmu
    
    - German prosecutors file first charges in Wirecard fraud https://on.ft.com/3fjG1JQ
    
     - France eases ban on travellers from the UK https://on.ft.com/3nlX0iP
    
    - Google bets on return to office with $1 bln purchase of
London building https://on.ft.com/3zXmFn5
    
    - Nordea bank picks former RBS chief Stephen Hester as next
chair https://on.ft.com/3nrPaEF
    
    Overview
    - Prince Andrew is to stop using the title "his royal
highness" and lose his role as a royal patron to scores of
organisations as controversy continues over his links with the
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
 
    - A former business associate of ex-Wirecard  WDIG.H 
executive Jan Marsalek has become the first person to be charged
by German prosecutors over the multibillion-euro fraud at the
once high-flying payments company.
    
    - France has lifted most of its restrictions on vaccinated
travellers from the UK, which will pave the way for tourists to
return starting on Friday. 
    
    - Google  GOOGL.O  has said it will spend $1 billion to
purchase its office building near London's Tottenham Court Road,
in a big bet on its employees coming back to work.
    
    - Nordea NDAFI.HE> has nominated former RBS chief executive
and current easyJet chair Stephen Hester as its next chair, as
the Nordic region' biggest bank continues its turnround after a
Russian money-laundering scandal three years ago.


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