Tag: France

The Banque de France intends to speed up its wholesale CBDC program as it looks to be ready to introduce central bank money as a settlement asset as early as next year.

Cosmian, a company that specialises in encryption, has scored $4.4m from a funding round led by La Banque Postale.

France’s data privacy and protection body has slapped Facebook with a €60m fine and Google with a €150m penalty following misdemeanours around internet cookies.

Cogévie, a group health and welfare contract management firm, has teamed up with fraud prevention software developer FRISS to bolster its protections.

The French government has picked augmented identity company IDEMIA to support its national eID card (CNie).

Didomi, which makes managing consent for customer data easier, has bagged $40m in its Series B round, which was led by Elephant and Breega.

A study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has found the US continues to lead the way as the number one cyber power worldwide.

Cybersecurity company Advens has closed an investment from CAPZA Growth Tech, which values the business at €100m.

The heads of the European and the French cybersecurity agencies have called for a greater level of cooperation and more resources to compete in the cybersecurity spending race.

French IT company Centreon has been targeted in a three-year long hack attack where bad actors used the venture to break into its clients' organisations, a French cyber watchdog has warned.