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BaFin

  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    German watchdog says Wirecard mistakes have made it more willing to ‘step on toes’

    BaFin was criticised for badly mishandling one of Europe’s biggest accounting frauds

    Mark Branson, president of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority in Germany
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank flouted international accounting rules, says watchdog

    BaFin accuses lender of 2019 failure to disclose key details about losses at US operations

    The Deutsche Bank logo is seen on the company’s building in Frankfurt
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank threatened with fines over flawed money laundering controls

    German financial watchdog rebukes lender and extends mandate of special monitor in latest setback

    CEO Christian Sewing
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank discovers thousands of unresolved customer complaints

    Latest setback after botched IT project key reason for delay to CEO Sewing’s promise of fixing Postbank issues this year

    Postbank logo
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    N26
    German regulator to ease draconian growth cap on bank N26

    BaFin to allow Berlin-based start-up to 60,000 new clients a month, up from 50,000

    The N26 app as seen on a phone
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank gets regulatory monitor after surge in Postbank complaints

    Some customers left locked out of accounts after lender’s problematic IT integration project

    A Deutsche Bank sign above a door at a branch in central Berlin
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Fed fines Deutsche Bank $186mn over failure to fix control flaws

    German lender had pledged to deal with ‘unsafe and unsound practices’ on handling sanctions and money-laundering

    Deutsche Bank logo
  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
    N26
    How Germany’s top fintech is struggling to grow up

    N26’s strategic planning, leadership and governance in the spotlight

    Max Tayenthal, left, and Valentin Stalf
  • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
    Money laundering
    Germany to ‘follow the money’ with new financial crime agency

    Berlin has been dogged by criticism following the collapse of Wirecard

    The Wirecard headquarters
  • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank criticised by regulators over forex mis-selling probe

    ECB and BaFin dissatisfied with methodology and length of time of internal investigation into misconduct

    The Deutsche Bank logo
  • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
    Standard Chartered PLC
    German regulator rebukes Standard Chartered over European operations

    BaFin orders bank to hold more capital against risks from organisational flaws

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    ADLER Group SA
    Adler inflated balance sheet by €3.9bn, BaFin finds

    Second time this year real estate group has had 2019 accounts questioned by German watchdog

    A billboard for apartments at Adler’s Überlin site in Berlin
  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Coinbase
    Coinbase censured over German business structure

    Crypto exchange ordered to ensure it has ‘proper’ organisation in place

    A Coinbase logo against a representation of cryptocurrency coins
  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank threatened with fines as deadlines to fix controls approach

    Dispute between lender and German regulator over improving money-laundering measures escalates further

    Deutsche Bank logo
  • Sunday, 30 October, 2022
    Fintech
    German fintech Solaris aims to triple revenue despite sector pressure

    Berlin-based group confident after winning new client

    Carsten Höltkemeyer
  • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
    Lars Windhorst
    Berlin prosecutors pursue Windhorst over alleged illegal banking activities

    Investigation ongoing a year after German financier said matter had been resolved

    Lars Windhorst
  • Monday, 22 August, 2022
    Interview
    Germany’s new accounting regulator decries auditors who are ‘too close’ to clients

    Thorsten Pötzsch takes aim at audit teams that are ‘unchanged for years’

    Thorsten Pötzsch
  • Monday, 1 August, 2022
    Property sector
    German regulator says Adler overstated 2019 accounts by up to €233mn

    BaFin publishes interim finding of accounting probe into real estate group

    BaFin logo outside Frankfurt headquarters
  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    Financials
    Short seller attack as instructive as ‘lost Champions League final’, says Grenke

    German leasing firm said it ‘learnt a lot’ and has been strengthened after Fraser Perring’s highly critical report

    The BaFin logo sits on a sign outside the German financial regulator’s headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on Monday, June 29 2020
  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    European companies
    German financial regulator probes Adler over its accounting

    The investigation is the first time the watchdog has used new powers granted after the Wirecard scandal

    Advertisment Krass Hier at a building site for a new building at Heidestrasse in Berlin, Germany.
  • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
    Wirecard AG
    Wirecard investors’ case against German regulator BaFin dismissed by court

    Four civil lawsuits seeking damages for alleged violation of legal duties are struck out

    BaFin headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    InterviewFintech
    N26 got it wrong on global expansion and crypto, co-founder admits

    Max Tayenthal says €7.8bn fintech should have prioritised expanding its services over ‘putting flags’ in more countries

    N26 co-founders Valentin Stalf and Max Tayenthal
  • Wednesday, 29 December, 2021
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank fined €8.7m over rate-rigging safeguards

    BaFin issues penalty seven years after German lender paid record $2.5bn settlement over Libor

    Deutsche Bank offices in Singapore
  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    EU business regulation
    EU seeks more independence for bank regulators after Wirecard scandal

    German supervisor BaFin set to have to cut ties with industry representatives

    BaFin logo
  • Monday, 18 October, 2021
    Fintech
    German watchdog imposes strict cap on N26’s client growth

    Fintech limited to maximum 70,000 new customers a month in long-running BaFin tussle

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