Tagged: france

November 4, 2026 @ 8:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has identified the French cooperative banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as the alleged victim of a substantial cryptocurrency theft, estimating losses above $133 million. The bank, which manages assets in the region of $235 billion, has issued no public confirmation or denial… Read More

November 4, 2026 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deputies in France’s National Assembly failed to hold the scheduled solemn vote on the revenue section of the 2027 state budget on Tuesday, 3 November, marking the second such delay. The examination of the first part of the finance bill, which sets taxes and other… Read More

November 3, 2026 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

France FinTech has partnered with Bain & Company to produce a report on the French Fintech ecosystem. According to the report, there are now over 1200 Fintechs based in the country that have raised over €13 billion since 2010 while creating more than 55,000 new… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

France has recorded a sharp and sustained increase in violent crimes linked to cryptocurrency holdings, with official figures showing 90 cases of kidnapping, abduction, extortion, threats, and violent theft between 1 January and mid-August 2026—roughly one incident every two and a half days. Authorities also… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

The French securities regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), says it has completed a round of spot inspections of several securities crowdfunding platforms and now says more must be done to strengthen knowledge tests and assess an investor’s ability to understand and bear risk. The AMF… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Executives at several crypto-focused companies in France have urged the government to treat conversions between volatile digital assets and stablecoins as taxable events. The proposal comes from Jean Meyer of the payments firm Deblock, Damien Patureaux of Lyzi, and Pierre Morizot of the tax-reporting software… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 3:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-based Marble, which builds infrastructure for real-time fraud detection and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) programs, has reportedly closed a €6.5 million funding round. The raise would add fuel to a company that has spent the past several years trying to give banks, fintechs,… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French data breaches have coincided with a noticeable increase in phone-based cryptocurrency fraud, according to entrepreneur Owen Simonin, better known as Hasheur. The founder and chief executive of the French platform Meria says he has received multiple reports in recent days of callers posing as… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Nik Storonsky, CEO and co-founder of digital bank Revolut, was in France this week after receiving approval for a French banking license. Speaking with Les Echos, the country’s leading financial publication, Storonsky said Revolut may dual-list its shares on Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Revolut have completed a tightly controlled live test in which an artificial intelligence agent initiated a real purchase on a French Revolut Visa card, authenticated through Visa Payment Passkeys rather than a one-time code, PIN or manual card entry. The trial,… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 7:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-based startup Outline has closed a $3 million seed round as it seeks to give finance leaders an alternative to the monthly grind of rebuilding forecasts in spreadsheets. Founders Future led the financing, with 100in, Newschool and a group of industry angels also participating. Among… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A large share of cryptocurrency-related profits generated in France appears to have gone undeclared, according to new on-chain analysis from blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis. The company’s Crypto Tax Report estimates that French residents generated about $9.4 billion in potentially taxable crypto activity during 2025. That… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 7:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Orange has begun letting Sosh subscribers settle their monthly bills with Wero, marking a notable step in the rollout of Europe’s homegrown instant-payment system. The option went live on 2 September 2026 and is presented as a first in France for recurring telecom invoices. Wero… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Hugging Face, a repository for open source artificial intelligence models, has been acquired by NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) for $12,930,300,000. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027. The announcement did not come as a surprise as markets had anticipated the move last… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) in France has issued a caution to the public to look out for fake media websites. According to the regulator, a bevy of news sites have recently been impersonating French news sites by copying their design and identity. Apparently,… Read More

August 15, 2026 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

France’s tax administration has acknowledged a cybersecurity incident that allowed unauthorized access to sensitive taxpayer records. The breach, which occurred in late June 2026, involved the extraction of personal and financial data belonging to both individuals and businesses. The French Ministry of the Economy and… Read More

August 14, 2026 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a quiet rural corner of northern France, a young couple has endured a nightmarish series of home invasions linked not to their own finances but to the digital wealth of the property’s previous occupants. The pair, an agricultural worker and a bank executive in… Read More

August 13, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European digital bank N26 has rolled out support for Wero, the pan-European instant payment system, inside its mobile app. The Berlin-based neobank announced the integration on 11 August 2026, making the service available to eligible customers in Germany and France. A gradual expansion to additional… Read More

August 11, 2026 @ 6:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has secured a regulatory milestone for its French subsidiary, Revolut Bank S.A., by obtaining authorization to operate as a bank. The approval followed a review conducted by France’s Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution and the European Central Bank. The Fintech already counts… Read More

July 21, 2026 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French gambling authorities took decisive action in order to cut off access to a major international prediction trading platform. On July 16, the president of the Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) instructed domestic internet service providers to block the site entirely, citing its promotion of… Read More