Big rounds for Checkout.com, Swile and Cazoo, and our interview with Black Swan CEO Steve King

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode:

Wirecard’s wild ride down

• ‘The Enron of Germany’: Wirecard scandal casts a shadow on corporate governance (CNBC)
• EY prepares for backlash over Wirecard scandal (Financial Times)
• Germany to sever ties with accounting watchdog after Wirecard scandal (Reuters)

Germany’s top court rules against Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’

• Germany’s highest court orders Facebook to stop cross-platform data sharing (EURACTIV)
• Facebook Loses Antitrust Decision in Germany Over Data Collection (The New York Times)
• Germany’s top court rules against Facebook on users’ data (Deutsche Welle)

Highlighting three big funding rounds:

• Checkout.com triples valuation to $5.5 billion, making it one of Europe’s top fintechs (CNBC)
• French fintech scale-up Swile secures €70 million to extend beyond its digital meal voucher alternative (Tech.eu)
• Cazoo raises $31 million at $1 billion+ valuation to help you buy used cars online (Tech.eu)

Steve King, co-founder and CEO of UK-based Black Swan

• How AI And Data Science Are Helping To Understand And Tackle COVID-19 (Forbes)