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Wirecard’s collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy
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Wirecard’s collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy

Wirecard’s collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy

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·Jun. 29, 2020·1 min read

This week, we consider the impact of financial infrastructure collapse and who really gets hurt through the lens of Wirecard, Enron, and Lehman Brothers. Yes, there are investors in the entity that will lose value. But there are also clients and counterparties of Wirecard, like Curve, Revolut, and Crypto.com. In the case of Lehman, there was a $40 trillion derivatives notional amount that took twenty years to wind down. We also consider the most recent $500,000 hacking in DeFi of an automated market maker to see if there are common threads to be drawn between the two worlds.

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