The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and three central banks concluded a central bank digital currency (CBDC) project. Project Mariana was developed by three BIS...
French startup Mistral AI has unveiled its first generative artificial intelligence (AI) model. The company’s Mistral 7B is a “small-sized” model with 7 billion parameters,...
Procurement and billing solutions firm Corentric has launched its Managed Accounts Receivable (AR) solution in France to help eliminate issues that challenge AR departments. According to Xavier Pierre-Bez,...
British sandwich and coffee chain Pret A Manger is set to expand its monthly coffee subscription service to the United States and France, according to a...
French multinational tech firm Thales has unveiled a tool to help customers adopt a cloud-based payments infrastructure. Announced Tuesday (Aug. 22), the Thales payShield Cloud HSM is a...
Apple’s advertising practices have drawn the ire of France’s competition watchdog. The country’s Autorité de la Concurrence on Tuesday (July 25) issued a statement of objection to the iPhone maker’s...
B2B payments company Mondu has partnered with payments specialists Acquired.com. Through Acquired’s network, Mondu’s suite of B2B payment services will be available to customers across...
After eight years of self-funding, French accounting startup Dougs has raised its first outside financing. The company took in $27 million in its first funding round,...
French telecom Orange plans to exit the retail banking business in France and Spain. The firm, which launched Orange Bank in 2017, is in exclusive talks with BNP Paribas to have that...