France

An indicator of French business sentiment strengthened to 37 in February from 29 in January, according to a survey of around 450 small and medium-sized companies by

It was a year of double-digit growth for French factors in 2005 in terms of volume and number of clients.

Allianz, the largest insurer in Europe, announced that it would buy out the minority shareholders of its French subsidiary AGF for

Surecomp, a leading provider of integrated enabling technologies for the banking and financial market, today announced that Paris-headquartered

Natexis Factorem confirmed its position as No. 3 factoring company in France

Euler Hermes, the French credit insurance group, has posted a 38.5 per cent leap in interim net profit, to euros 170.3 m.

Medical Intelligence Technologies, the Canadian company, has announced today that its French subsidiary Medical Mobile has signed an agreement with financial institution LOCAM SAS for the factoring of a substantial

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represented 86% of the 100,000 exporting French businesses in 2005, but were responsible for just 46.3% of the euro 349.6bn of exported goods and services

Euler Hermes, the credit insurance group, has announced the resignation of

Despite the costs of its parent company's merger with Credit Lyonnais, Eurofactor, the factoring subsidiary of French banking group Credit Agricole, has posted good results for 2005