{"id":18425,"date":"2026-06-01T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/18425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:06:15","slug":"wise-shares-tumble-as-fintech-faces-investigation-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/18425\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Shares Tumble as Fintech Faces Investigation in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2655007D:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Wise Plc<\/a> shares dropped as much as 19% in London on Monday as the fintech company confirmed it\u2019s answering queries from prosecutors in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Belgian authorities are investigating concerns that Wise\u2019s accounts have been used to launder proceeds of fraud, drug trafficking and corruption linked to transactions worth more than \u20ac500 million ($582 million), the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wise Plc shares dropped as much as 19% in London on Monday as the fintech company confirmed it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,269,319,3505,172,11991,4168,1291,11945,29,85],"class_list":["post-18425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-business","tag-environment","tag-fintech","tag-germany","tag-jefferies-financial-group-in","tag-law","tag-london","tag-money-laundering","tag-new-york","tag-regulation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116675712529098209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}