LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - BC Partners is an alternative asset manager whose portfolio companies include PetSmart and Springer Nature. Partner Nikos Stathopoulos chats to Peter Thal Larsen about managing during Covid-19, new investment challenges, and why we need to get back to face-to-face meetings. Reuters Breakingviews is the world's leading source of agenda-setting financial insight. As the Reuters brand for financial commentary, we dissect the big business and economic stories as...

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Wirecard is giving Europe’s fintech industry a timely stress test. The German group on Thursday announced it was filing for insolvency, a week after revealing that 1.9 billion euros of its cash was missing. Its collapse will test whether fast-growing and lightly regulated payments firms can fail without damaging customers or dragging down other institutions. For regulators, it’s an overdue wakeup call. The speed of Wirecard’s demise is dizzying. The company,...