CRYTOCURRENCY: Tesla company announced Monday that it has invested $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin A few weeks ago, the boss and SpaceX, Elon Musk, blew the price of bitcoin by simply showing the emoji of this cryptocurrency in his biography on Twitter. On February 8, his auto company, Tesla, announced that it had invested the equivalent […]
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TRANSPORT: The European market has been cut by a quarter of its sales by the health crisis, but sales of hybrid and electric vehicles have exceeded sales of diesel in Europe A good year for the automobile. Sales of electric vehicles doubled in Europe in 2020, while sales of plug-in hybrids tripled, topping a total of one million vehicles sold, according […]
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As bitcoin and other digital assets go mainstream, traditional banks want a piece of the action. Singapore’s crypto-friendly regulations are paving the way. Institutional interest in cryptocurrencies and digital assets has increased exponentially in recent months, and in a sign of growing mainstream adoption of this nascent asset class, traditional banks are now joining in […]
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VIRTUAL CURRENCY: The most famous cryptocurrency, Bitcoin broke its record this Wednesday Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency decentralized, exceeded the $ 20,000 threshold for the first time in its history Wednesday, taking advantage of an appetite for risk markets that has almost tripled its value in a year. At around 3:20 p.m. PST, bitcoin cost $ 20,612.40 and saw its value […]
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INTERVIEW: Matthieu Robin, bank-insurance project manager at UFC-Que Choisir, sounds the alarm on the risks of over-indebtedness The consumer association UFC-Que Choisir launches an alert on “the irresponsible distribution of consumer credit”, faced with an expected increase in 2021 in defaults on consumer credit. It also points to the role of “push-to-crime” advertisements from credit institutions, […]
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VIRTUAL CURRENCY: The objective of this name change is to mark a little more distance between Diem – formerly Libra – and Facebook, its initiator The development of its cryptocurrency has not been a long quiet river for Facebook. The project has indeed been strongly criticized by many regulators. The latter feared that Facebook’s cryptocurrency could be a threat to the […]
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RESTRUCTURING: The Société Générale bank group assures this Monday that there will be no forced departures With the economic crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the French banking landscape is restructuring. The banking group Société Générale formalised on Monday the plan to merge its two retail networks in France Societe Generale and Crédit du Nord. This project will involve the closure of […]
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CRYPTOCURRENCY: This initiative by the French central bank, for a “digital euro”, is a first in the eurozone An “e-euro” to counter Facebook’s Libra. This is the ambition of the Banque de France, which will launch experiments next year to develop a “central bank digital currency” (MDBC). It will be dedicated to “wholesale” transactions, that is to say very […]
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The “UFC- Que Choisir” site has shown, with supporting examples, that several online giants have false promotions for Black Friday. The “UFC- Que Choisir” site has shown, with supporting examples, that several online giants have taken very great liberties with real fake exaggerated promotions. With a known system, that of artificially inflating prices to give the impression that […]
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CRISIS: U2P, the leading French employers’ organisation, fears a “wave of closures” in 2021 in the Pays-de-la-Loire region U2P is the employers’ union for VSEs and SMEs in the trade, craft and liberal professions sectors. Its new president in Pays-de-la-Loire is worried about the consequences of the crisis in 2021. “There is a lot of suffering, […]
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