Financial Insights That Matter TORONTO, April 1, 2025 /CNW/ – French Language Services Commissioner Carl Bouchard today announced that he is launching an investigation into service in French at ServiceOntario locations. Ombudsman Ontario Logo (CNW Group/Ombudsman Ontario) “We hear regularly from people who say they were either unable to be served in French by ServiceOntario staff, […]
Financial Insights That Matter WeeFin, a French sustainable fintech empowering financial institutions to manage their ESG strategies, has secured €25 million in fresh funding. The round, led by BlackFin Capital Partners alongside existing investors IRIS, Asterion Ventures, and Ring Capital, will accelerate WeeFin’s mission to raise the standards of sustainable finance while expanding its global […]
Financial Insights That Matter 00:00 Speaker A French regulators hitting Apple with a roughly $162 million fine over privacy changes imposed on app developers. The fine coming just days before President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are set to take effect. Trump has been critical of EU regulators crackdown on big tech in the past. Of course, […]
Financial Insights That Matter U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose a 25% tariff on imported cars and light trucks starting next week is “very bad news” and the only solution for now is for the European Union to raise its own tariffs, French Finance minister Eric Lombard said on Thursday. Lombard, who was speaking […]
Financial Insights That Matter By Mathieu Rosemain, John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -The Trump administration has ordered some French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with his executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programmes, highlighting the extraterritorial reach of U.S. policies and their potential impact on European corporate practices. The companies have been told […]
Financial Insights That Matter Hanoi, Vietnam, March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The French Development Finance Institution (Proparco) and the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) have signed a loan agreement worth US$80 millionof which each party invest US$40 millionwith Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank, stock code: SSB). SeABank receives investment of US$80 million from […]
Financial Insights That Matter Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The Trump administration has sent a letter to some large companies in the EU warning them to comply with an executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programmes. The […]
Financial Insights That Matter The French public deficit came in at €169.6 billion in 2024, 5.8% of GDP, as revenues accelerated and spending did not grow as much as in the previous year. That’s according to the French statistics office INSEE’s first account of the public finances for last year, subject to revision in May. […]
Financial Insights That Matter (Bloomberg) — Private-sector business activity in France contracted less than anticipated, with an uptick in manufacturing unable to offset continued political uncertainty. Most Read from Bloomberg S&P Global’s Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index increased to 47 in March from 45.1 in February, remaining lodged well below the 50 threshold separating growth from […]
Financial Insights That Matter PARIS (Reuters) – French IT group Atos (ATO.PA) has won a five-year contract worth 150 million pounds ($193.5 million) with Britain’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the company said on Wednesday. The contract covers DEFRA’s service desk, with the aim of transitioning the department’s 34,000 users into a single […]