Lise inaugurates Europe's first tokenised stock exchange

Co-founded at the end of 2017 and headed by Mark Kepeneghian, Lightning Stock Exchange (Lise) has just obtained its authorisation from the ACPR in the...
/ Innovation, Regulation

SG-Forge is stepping up initiatives to promote its stablecoins

Société Générale's digital assets subsidiary is strengthening its partnership with Bitpanda in decentralised finance. There ...
/ Innovation, Strategy

Banque de France and Euroclear to switch short-term debt to blockchain 

[Finascope exclusive] The "Pythagoras" project, which is being carried out on the NEU CP market, marks the first large-scale ...
/ Innovation, Strategy

The Banque de France now encourages the creation of euro stablecoins

According to François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France, who spoke at the Fintech Forum on Thursday, a two-pronged ...
/ Innovation, Strategy

What if cryptos had given the French back their desire to invest?

Very active in digital assets, Banque Delubac & Cie is seeing a growing interest in traditional assets and in the ...
/ Innovation, Trend

ACPR thwarts life insurance companies' plans in crypto-assets

Jean-Paul Faugère, vice-chairman of the banking and insurance regulator, emphasises his mission to protect customers ...
/ Innovation, Regulation

EIB invests €260 million in French fund Jolt

The fifth vintage of Jolt Capital is aiming for a target size of €1 billion. The aim is to make significant investments in ...
/ Innovation, Operation

Crypto authorisations: the AMF raises its voice and threatens to take "precautionary measures".

Together with the Austrian and Italian market authorities, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is denouncing major differences in the way ...
/ Innovation, Regulation

Crypto-assets: PSAN status whets the appetite of international investors

Two AMF-accredited crypto players are about to go under the Japanese and American flags. The companies already ...
/ Innovation, Operation

Digital sovereignty: the digital euro, a bulwark against the expansion of crypto-currencies

The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Eurosystem have their backs to the wall under the US Genius Act, which encourages ...
/ Innovation, Strategy