CoinShares Acquires Crypto Investment Provider Napoleon for $15.7M
The transaction is expected to be completed this month.
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Dec 1, 2021 at 9:52 a.m. UTC
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French Fintech Lydia Taps Bitpanda to Let 5.5M Users Trade Crypto
Users of French payments app Lydia will now be able to trade over 170 crypto assets.
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Nov 23, 2021 at 8:52 p.m. UTC
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French Fintech Lydia Taps Bitpanda to Let 5.5M Users Trade Crypto
Austrian crypto exchange Bitpanda, the country’s first tech unicorn, has teamed with French mobile payments app Lydia to offer its 5.5 million users the ability to invest in o...
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Nov 23, 2021 at 4:04 p.m. UTC
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Banque de France Calls for Further Examination of Wholesale CBDCs
A wholesale CBDC would be of benefit to cross-border payments, the bank concluded.
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Nov 9, 2021 at 9:58 a.m. UTC
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Binance Funds $116M Initiative to Grow French Crypto Ecosystem
The world’s biggest crypto exchange has teamed with nonprofit French Fintech to build a research hub and accelerator.
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Nov 3, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. UTC
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France Trials CBDC, Blockchain for Government Bond Deals
The experiment is one of the EU’s largest to date, with nearly 500 transactions executed during trial.
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Oct 19, 2021 at 5:26 a.m. UTC
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France’s Market Authority Warns Against Proposed Air Next ICO
The AMF said it didn’t issue a “visa” for the offering and warned of the risk of fraud.
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Sep 30, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
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European Football NFT Platform Sorare Raises $680M Series B
The raise values the company at $4.3 billion.
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Sep 21, 2021 at 4:47 a.m. UTC
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Blockchain-Based Fantasy Soccer Platform Sorare to Raise $532M in Funding
According to an unconfirmed Business Insider report Wednesday, Paris-based digital soccer collectibles platform Sorare is expected to announce that it will receive $532 millio...
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Jul 15, 2021 at 8:57 p.m. UTC
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France Wants EU to Give ‘Greater Powers’ to ESMA in Overseeing Crypto: Report
France proposed the change as part of a package of reforms to strengthen financial regulation across Europe.
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Jul 13, 2021 at 6:22 p.m. UTC
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