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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11447
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) finance

France wants to toughen up controls on electronic currency

Brussels, 07/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - The French authorities want to put an end to anonymity - preferably at European level - in the use of prepaid cards, the recent attacks on Paris having highlighted the ability of terrorist networks to finance themselves underground.

“Electronic currency, particularly in the form of prepaid cards, lends itself to being used on a massive scale by criminal and terrorist groups” and “allows purchases to be made completely secretly, such as airline...

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