Tag: France

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has given its thumbs up for Austrian, Belgian, French, Spanish and Greek regulators’ decision to continue to limit short selling because of the coronavirus.

French regulator ORIAS has given London-based InsurTech Zego a French insurance broker licence.

France is one of the biggest economies in the world, but its FinTech sector has lagged behind the UK and Germany. However, things are heating up.

Central banks should be in charge of issuing digital currencies as the use of cash declines, the Bank of France's governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said.

France are exploring the use of digital currency and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to help create new opportunities for the financial market.

The French data privacy regulator Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) has reportedly fined real estate marketplace website Sergic for GDPR failures.

Bleckwen, which leverages real-time behavioural analytics platform to detect fraud in payments, has come out from stealth, revealing the close of a $10m funding round.

Data collection and management platform Deepki has raised €8m in a funding round to accelerate its European expansion efforts.

French regulator The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has signed an agreement with China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to support innovation across the countries.

Identity verification company Onfido has launched operations in France and will invest €4m into the country to boost its presence there.