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Binance still struggling to find banking partner in France: Report

After losing its euro banking partner, Paysafe, Binance France has proposed that its customers should convert all the fiat money they hold on the exchange into crypto immediately, according to comments from an executive to local media. The partnership between Binance France and Paysafe expired on Sept. 25. The latter was

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France introduces new certificate for crypto influencers

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers says the initiative should help professionalize commercial influence. France’s financial regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), has revealed a new online general training course to grant legitimate influencers a certificate. In a press release, the agency said the initiative should help “professionalize commercial influence, an activity

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France Launches Certificate Training Program for Finfluencers

AMF Chair Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani noted that the financial sector is highly regulated, and investment communications must be law-compliant, clear, and balanced. Two regulators in France, The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de Régulation Professionnelle de la Publicité (ARPP), have jointly set up a training module for finfluencers. Previously, the

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France Amends Registration Requirements for Crypto Firms to Better Align With EU’s MiCA

Modified provisions of the AMF General Regulation for digital asset service providers cover "security and internal control systems, systems for managing conflicts of interest, clear, accurate and non-misleading information, public pricing policies, specific custody provisions (segregation of client assets vs. own assets)," and bans firms from using client assets without

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Wholesale CBDC Would Improve Cross-Border Payments, Banque de France Tests Show

"Through these experiments, the Banque de France shows the operational feasibility and practical implementation of the three models it has conceptualized for issuing wCBDC directly on DLT [distributed ledger technology]," the central bank said, adding that different types of DLT were used to test applications in asset tokenization and the

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