WEEKLY FACTS 12 - 2026
Every day, Adnews reviews the latest innovations and news on financial services and international payment. Focus on announcements that should not be missed this week and that outline major trends in the sector.
AMF, Banque de France and the Directorate General of Treasury rely on financial tokenization
The French financial authorities announce the creation of a strategic working group to coordinate work on tokenisation as well as infrastructure based on distributed registry technology (DLT). This new system, bringing together regulators, financial institutions and market infrastructures, aims to accelerate the adoption of DLT-based solutions and to structure the deployment of future essential bricks, including the digital euro planned for 2026.
Mastercard unveils "Virtual C-Suite", an AI agent designed to support small businesses
Mastercard deploys Virtual C-Suite, a new generation dArtificial intelligence agents (IA) dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), designed to offer them decision-making capabilities close to those of executive direction. This launch marks a significant milestone in the group's AI strategy, which aims to integrate decision-making intelligence into the tools used by SMEs.
Alma's turn to achieve profitability
A few days after the announcement of another French fintech, AlanIt is the turn of the split payment specialist Alma to announce its new profitability. Alma ensures that it reached the profitability threshold for its activities in 2025, recording strong growth. BNPL's fintech now focuses on continuing its European expansion, without major strategic change in its model, but strengthening its position on the BNPL market.
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