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The Wirecard trial in Munich is expected to extend beyond the initially planned 100 days of court hearings. The court is contemplating the extension of evidence collection until February. As the trial progresses into its first extended break after 58 days, no substantial evidence has been found against the former CEO, Markus Braun, in the alleged billion-dollar fraud case of the DAX-listed company that collapsed in 2020.

Wirecard was an unremarkable and not particularly innovative German payment processor until 2007. The international take-off started with the acquisition of Trustpay International AG and the two payment veterans Ruediger Trautmann (2005) and Dietmar Knoechelmann (2006). Wirecard acquired companies from them in complicated and secretive transactions, creating a huge international high-risk payment volume. Here is the story of Wirecard's internationalization.