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“# Banque de France tests digital currency-based securities settlement ” The central bank of France — Banque de France — is continuing its work on the development of a European central bank digital currency (CBDC). On Monday the bank officially announced the successful completion of a CBDC experiment with major Switzerland-based cryptocurrency bank SEBA. Conducted in…
“#Google and LVMH unveil ‘AI partnership’ for luxury online shopping” French luxury goods giant LVMH signed a deal to use Google’s AI to help sell products from brands such as Louis Vuitton and Tiffany — and top spenders will have custom-tailored online shopping experiences, the companies said Wednesday. Google’s AI and machine learning tech will…
“#Ikea ordered to pay $1.3M fine for spying on French employees” Ikea was fined $1.3 million on Tuesday for spying on its French workers — and two of the furniture retailer’s former executives were convicted over the creepy operation. A panel of judges at the Versailles court ruled that between 2009 and 2012, Ikea’s French…
“# French Football Federation launches official player NFTs with Sorare ” With the Euro 2020 championship in progress, blockchain-based fantasy soccer game Sorare has announced the licensing agreement for a national sports association to issue nonfungible tokens of its players. In an announcement today, Sorare said the France Football Federation, or FFF, had launched its…
“# The global corporate tax rate: crypto savior or killer? ” At a meeting in London earlier this month, the finance ministers from the G7 — the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada — unanimously agreed to begin creating the framework for a global corporate tax rate. The framework laid out a…
“# BIS joins France and Switzerland’s central banks on cross-border CBDC project ” The Bank of France and the Swiss National Bank are teaming up with the Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub to test a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) system dubbed “Project Jura.” According to a release by the Bank of France…
“#French lecturer reaches for stars with astronaut application” Enlarge Image Matthieu Pluvinage, a candidate to the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut selection, poses in his office at the ESIGELEC engineering school where he teaches, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, June 4, 2021. Reuters ROUEN, France, June 8 – In a break from his job teaching engineering to…
“#Google fined $268M for market abuse in French antitrust case” Google has been fined nearly $270 million by French authorities for abusing its market power in the digital advertising sector. As part of the first-of-its-kind settlement agreement announced by the French Competition Authority Monday, Google also agreed to change some of its advertising practices to…
“#96-year-old American is lone veteran to attend D-Day anniversary” Charles Shay was the only veteran at a ceremony in Carentan, where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, when the small French town marked the 77th anniversary of the epic World War II invasion Friday. He is also expected to be the sole representative…
“#Google to pay fine, change ad business in antitrust settlement: report” Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is reportedly expected to pay a fine and change some business practices to settle an antitrust case with the French government over its online advertising business. France’s Competition Authority has alleged that Google’s advertising tool DoubleClick, which online publishers use…