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France
French Central Bank Completes First Stage of Its CBDC Experiments
The final stage of the first tranche of experiments consisted of the issuance of a digital bond on a blockchain with settlement in CBDC.
French Fintech Lydia Attains Unicorn Status With $100M Series C Funding
The funding round includes new investors Dragoneers and Echo Street along with existing backers Tencent, Accel and Founders Future.
CoinShares Acquires Crypto Investment Provider Napoleon for $15.7M
The transaction is expected to be completed this month.
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.
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 over 170 crypto assets. Bitpanda Chief Product Officer Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad shares insights into the partnership, France's regulatory reception to crypto, and the state of DeFi in Europe.
Banque de France Calls for Further Examination of Wholesale CBDCs
A wholesale CBDC would be of benefit to cross-border payments, the bank concluded.
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.
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.
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.
European Football NFT Platform Sorare Raises $680M Series B
The raise values the company at $4.3 billion.
