HSBC reportedly agreed to pay 268 million euros (about $312.9 million) to French tax authorities to settle charges of tax fraud. French prosecutors alleged that between 2014 and 2019, the bank’s French arm engaged in intra-group trading transactions that were designed to benefit from a...
Paris-based digital insurer Orus raised 25 million euros (about $29 million) in a Series B funding round to fuel the planned pan-European expansion of its digital platform offering tailored insurance for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Initially operating in France, Orus has begun its international...
France took a major step forward in asserting its artificial intelligence (AI) power Wednesday (June 11) as home-grown startup Mistral AI and U.S. chipmaker Nvidia announced a landmark partnership to develop next-generation AI cloud services in France. During a high-profile panel at the Viva Tech...
France’s competition regulator has fined Apple 150 million euros (about $162 million), alleging that the company’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) made the use of third-party applications in the iOS environment “excessively complex.” This complexity amounted to abuse of Apple’s dominant position in the distribution of...
July 08, 2024
Although France checks in seventh — the first country below the median — in the recently released landmark report by PYMNTS Intelligence, “How the World Does Digital,” its Gen Z segment made a bold statement. French Gen Z users are the most active, with 464.8 activity days per month and about 15.5 activities per day […]
May 27, 2024
After starting the year at a five-year low, France may be in a position to lead venture investment in the EU out of the dark ages. The country has emerged...
May 29, 2023
PYMNTS recently studied the digital transformation of 11 countries, discovering that France is a growth leader among the countries examined. Consumers in France are 10% more digitally engaged than one...
May 24, 2023
Buoyed by changing consumer habits in the wake of the pandemic, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) financing model has exploded in recent years, with more and more consumers and...
April 17, 2026
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said Friday (April 17) that European banks should develop more euro-based stablecoins and tokenized deposits to reduce the continent’s reliance on non-European payment providers, Reuters reported Friday. In pre-recorded comments delivered at a cryptocurrency conference in Paris, Lescure said that the small volume of euro-pegged stablecoins compared to dollar-pegged ones […]
January 08, 2026
HSBC reportedly agreed to pay 268 million euros (about $312.9 million) to French tax authorities to settle charges of tax fraud. French prosecutors alleged that between 2014 and 2019, the...
June 24, 2025
Paris-based digital insurer Orus raised 25 million euros (about $29 million) in a Series B funding round to fuel the planned pan-European expansion of its digital platform offering tailored insurance...
March 31, 2025
France’s competition regulator has fined Apple 150 million euros (about $162 million), alleging that the company’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) made the use of third-party applications in the iOS environment...
