The €50m fund raise announced by the SME lender this week is backed by a Hamburg credit institution forced to reinvent itself after regulatory investigations.
Even as head of sales at Stripe, Ed Moore couldn’t sign up customers to use a single payment system covering all countries. His new employer Payrails aims to fix that.
Frustrated by the slow pace of investigations in Brussels, critics of Elon Musk’s social network and its influence on politics are targeting X’s Dublin office through their national authorities.
The far-right’s leading position in Austria illustrates the global trend also emerging in Germany and could shed light on possible European futures.
Over the years, many Irish musicians have taken the road to Germany to establish their careers. Most don’t make it. One of those who has is now a national rock and reality TV superstar and mentor to other Irish music hopefuls.
Heramba Electric was formed to bring together US stock market investors and German industrial assets into an Irish-registered company.
A German non-profit attempted to seek evidence from Twitter’s Irish entity in a US court to use in a German legal action. To date, the organisation has faced multiple knockbacks from judges.
Charles Smethurst is facing 27 counts of professional fraud as the alleged mastermind of a collapsed international property investment scheme that has burned 1,800 Irish investors.
If we take some altitude on the current impasse, it strikes me that Germany is possibly heading for a period of significant economic and political upheaval. Maybe, things need to break to be re-made.
The good performance of the German team so far has echoes of the 2006 World Cup. There are good football reasons for this, but it has yet to translate into a wider positive national feeling.
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