2019-12-19 14:45 |
Coinspeaker Financial Authority AMF Selected First in History Legal French ICO FirmFrench-ICO is the first blockchain related fundraising project that gained approval from the French financial watchdog AMF. origin »
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Investment company Napoleon Asset Management has received approval by the French financial regulator to launch a regulated fund that provides exposure to crypto assets for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals.
2019-12-18 20:00 | |
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In a bid to transform the French financial industry, Denis Beau, the First Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, proposed the use of blockchain technology in euro payment settlements within the Eurozone whilst at the Second Annual Capital Markets Technology and Innovation Conference, according to an Econotimes report, November 26, 2019.
2019-11-26 16:00 | |
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The first deputy governor of Banque de France, Denis Beau, has urged the finance industry to experiment with blockchain
2019-11-25 17:38 | |
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SESAMm, a French company specializing in big data and AI for asset management, and Kaiko, a cryptocurrency market data provider, today announced a new partnership to empower financial professionals to create more informed trading strategies.
2019-11-22 00:22 | |
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Bitcoin will soon be permeating the French high school syllabus for Economics and Social Sciences. It has been noted that the decentralized financial system has made it into an activity card for teachers in order to demonstrate the different properties of money.
2019-11-1 16:18 | |
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French Economy and finance minister Bruno Le Maire attacks Libra again this time claiming that Facebook’s led stablecoin will intrude on one of the most important national government mandates, issuance of currency.
2019-10-17 20:31 | |
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If you had to choose who controlled your money, would you pick the government or a private company? While it is unlikely you would pick either, this is the choice nations have to make as Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project pushes toward its goal of a global economic takeover.
2019-10-18 18:00 | |
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Apple CEO, Tim Cook, has put to rest any speculation that the company may soon introduce its own cryptocurrency. When questioned whether Apple intends to follow Facebook’s lead, Cook replied that “money must remain in the hands of states.
2019-10-4 12:00 | |
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At a time when several industry giants are prepping for their own digital currencies, tech giant Apple on the other hand, has no intention to create a native cryptocurrency. This was confimed by Apple CEO Tim Cook when he recently spoke to a French financial newspaper Les Echos.
2019-10-4 09:33 | |
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Two representatives – French Hill (R-Arkansas) and Rep. Foster (D-Illinois), have asked the Federal Reserve, the country’s most significant financial institution, to bear in mind developing a digital dollar.
2019-10-3 18:30 | |
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French and German regulators have launched a new attack on Facebook’s Libra, saying that it is a threat to the financial sovereignty of nations. In response, the Libra Association has doubled down, promising to work with regulators, but committing to a 2020 launch.
2019-9-17 15:05 | |
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Bertrand Perez, General Director of the Libra Association, told the French financial media Les Echos that the stablecoin project backed by Facebook would go live by the end of 2020. His comments come a day after French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire pledged to stop Libra in Europe.
2019-9-14 18:00 | |
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Facebook’s ambitious cryptocurrency project, Libra, has been facing a lot of heat in Europe since its announcement in June. Now, according to Reuters, the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, doesn’t want it to operate in the EU, as he feels it’s unclear exactly how the digital currency will function.
2019-9-12 13:47 | |
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Coinspeaker Fight To Fame Expands Its Search for the Next Action Film Star to EuropeCelebrated French studio head Philippe Diaz and financial executive Aaron Brill join Fight To Fame’s European expansion by establishing offices in Paris and Berlin.
2019-9-11 14:19 | |
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Researchers from antivirus developer ESET recently discovered a new form of spam-delivered malware that threatens to steal unsuspecting users’ passwords and financial information, and record their screens if they watch pornography.
2019-8-15 23:19 | |
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France’s financial watchdog, the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) has announced plans to implement a new set of rules that will govern bitcoin and crypto-based businesses in the region. The regulation is expected to go live later this month, and it takes care of essential pain points like consumer protection, tax remittance and capital requirements, reportsRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-18 09:00 | |
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While the world is looking at Facebook’s Libra and its recent senate hearing, France is knuckling down and is set to approve the first wave of cryptocurrency businesses under new legislation. Under the rules, cryptocurrency-related firms will voluntarily abide by a regulatory framework that requires them to pay tax, provide consumer protection, and meet capital requirements, Reuters reports.
2019-7-17 11:21 | |
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French financial authorities have observed an uptick in cryptocurrency-related complaints from investors
2019-7-4 22:27 | |
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If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the prevailing mindset on Wall Street when it comes to crypto. The latest to (re)-hop on the bitcoin/blockchain bandwagon is Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.
2019-6-30 16:45 | |
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American banking giant Goldman Sachs might be following in the footsteps of its competitor JP Morgan. The bank is considering launching its own cryptocurrency. In an interview with French financial newspaper Les Echos today, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that they are doing extensive research on the concept of “tokenization.
2019-6-29 16:09 | |
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has called on the Group of Seven central bank governors to prepare a July report regarding the financial aspects of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, as European Parliament members fear the social media platform could become a shadow bank.
2019-6-18 18:58 | |
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Societe Generale S. A. , one of the largest financial institutions in France, issued covered bonds worth $112 million in the form of security tokens using the Ethereum blockchain. It was a pilot program to test how the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency could reduce the time and cost of settlement of securities, reported Bloomberg, May 09,Read MoreRead More.
2019-5-11 09:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency market has always worked with an intention to integrate with the mainstream financial ecosystem and the latest development from Societe Generale SA [SocGen] seems to have done just the same.
2019-5-11 22:30 | |
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French lending giant Societe Generale has become the latest traditional financial company to experiment with digital tokens. The bank’s Ethereum-based tokenized bonds have the potential to bring cryptocurrencies to a market worth over $2 trillion.
2019-5-10 18:20 | |
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Telecom giant Samsung has invested 2. 6 million euros ($2. 9 million) into crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger, the French financial publication Capital reports. The investment gives the France-based startup a nearly $290 million valuation, per the report.
2019-4-26 22:16 | |
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Societe Generale SFH, a subsidiary of one of Europe’s largest financial services groups, Societe Generale Group, on April 23, 2019, announced that it had issued the first covered bond as a security token on the public Ethereum blockchain.
2019-4-25 15:00 | |
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French financial titan Societe Generale, a multi-national investment bank and financial services company, has just announced the issuance of covered bonds on the Ethereum blockchain. The company, whose annual revenues approach ˆ24 billion, is to release 100 million EUR in bonds issued as a security token offering (STO) registered through Ethereum.
2019-4-25 23:26 | |
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North Korea could pose a threat to countries across Southeast Asia as it looks to exploit cryptocurrency exchanges due to gaps in regulatory frameworks, according to a new report.
2019-4-25 17:04 | |
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CryptoNinjas Chaineum, a French corporate financial advisory firm in ICOs and STOs, with a strategic focus on both its clients’ business and blockchain technology, announced today that after 2 years of development and proof of concepts (POCs) for different industries, Chaineum Labs, the company’s.
2019-4-23 10:49 | |
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The French government has adopted a financial sector bill that establishes a legal framework for cryptocurrency service providers and initial coin offerings. The bill includes both optional and mandatory licensing, and also specifies the types of funds that can invest in crypto assets.
2019-4-16 09:50 | |
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The French government has adopted a financial sector bill that establishes a legal framework for cryptocurrency service providers and initial coin offerings. The bill includes both optional and mandatory licensing, and also specifies the types of funds that can invest in crypto assets.
2019-4-16 09:50 | |
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Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server).
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Gatecoin has said it is shutting down citing financial difficulty. The exchange suffered a $2 million hack in 2016 and hasn’t been able to recover the funds.
2019-3-15 00:15 | |
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The head of the Finance Committee of France’s National Assembly proposed to ban anonymity-focused cryptocurrencies like Monero and Zcash
2019-3-8 03:10 | |
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In a report published earlier today, the Finance Committee of France’s National Assembly has stated that it would be appropriate to ban all cryptocurrencies focused on providing greater anonymity to the user.
2019-3-7 00:00 | |
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French economist and former central bank head Christian Noyer is joining blockchain-based financial services startup SETL's board of director.
2019-1-18 20:00 | |
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The grassroots yellow vest movement in France has been participating in protests for weeks on end. Just recently, high profile yellow vest members have been promoting a “bank run” on financial institutions and automated teller machines in Paris.
2019-1-16 01:45 | |
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French grassroots political movement Yellow Vests is fighting financial institutions via a bank run — and crypto could help
2019-1-12 03:32 | |
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Four Cryptocurrency Websites Blacklisted By French Financial Regulators For Providing Unauthorized Offerings AMF—the Financial Markets Regulator, which also happens to be the agency in charge of regulating the stock market in France has announced that it is officially blacklisting four websites dealing with cryptocurrencies.
2018-12-15 20:59 | |
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French Company Is The First Regulated Crypto Asset Manager Funded By An ICO France is known as having a very regulated financial market. If you want to do business there, you need to comply with the regulation, or else you will simply not be able to do it. Now, some important development has happened as […]
2018-12-9 00:13 | |
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The nation’s financial regulators have criticized Keplerk, a France-based financial technology (fintech) company, the Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF) for allying with tobacco retailers in the country to enable them to sell bitcoin to clients through its bitcoin vouchers beginning from January 2019, according to a Finance Magnates report on November 26, 2018.
2018-11-27 06:00 | |
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French financial regulators and the national central bank have responded to the news that tobacco shops will start selling Bitcoin in 2019. In the post, they reiterate the risks associated with investing in or trading digital assets.
2018-11-26 23:00 | |
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The central bank of France and its local financial markets regulator,ncies are often unregulated and, generally, not well-suited for uninformed investors. “[In light of recent announcements to offer cryptocurrency coupons in tobacco stores,] the AMF, the Bank of France, and the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority warn that the acts of purchasing, selling, and investing in Bitcoin are currently… This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Bitcoin
2018-11-26 17:07 | |
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Cryptogem Global, a new peer-to-peer bitcoin (BTC) exchange, has opened in Harare in defiance of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s ban on cryptocurrencies. The decentralized platform allows Zimbabweans to buy and sell BTC without the need for intermediaries such as legacy financial institutions.
2018-11-8 18:25 | |
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France’s Financia Business School, which offers post-graduate courses in financial and blockchain technology, now allows students to pay their fees in cryptocurrency. Since the institution introduced the measure, about half a dozen students have paid in BTC for the 2018 academic year.
2018-10-29 04:05 | |
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The French company Ledger design very popular Nano S cryptocurrency hardware wallets. Now, the CEO of the company, Eric Larcheveque has explained why every trader in the crypto space should be using hardware wallet no matter the size of their investment, big or small.
2018-10-12 13:30 | |
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On September 23, 2018, the Bitcoin Foundation sent a letter to the French Parliament asking that they reject a new crypto asset amendment being proposed in the PACTE Bill, which deals with the growth and transformation of France’s businesses and the country’s employee savings.
2018-10-4 22:10 | |
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Europe’s securities watchdog, ESMA, has decided to extend the restrictions applied to a number of financial derivatives, including contracts-for-differences (CFDs) based on cryptocurrencies. The limits that were introduced in August of this year will now remain in place until the end of January 2019.
2018-9-29 04:30 | |
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AMF, France’s financial regulator, has expanded its list of entities involved in fraudulent activities often related to cryptocurrency investments. The agency has added 21 new websites most of which have been luring French investors with offers to participate in token sales and digital assets trading.
2018-9-27 07:25 | |
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The next generation of institutions in Europe won’t just hold Bitcoin, they will benchmark themselves against it.
Animoca Brands has taken a new step in its regulatory plans after receiving early approval to pursue a fund management license in Abu Dhabi. Animoca Brands is advancing its regulated strategy after receiving initial approval to establish a fund management…
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