Germany

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German Business Outlook Improves

In Germany, an improvement in business outlook was recorded, which turned out to be higher than preliminary expectations and gave rise to cautious hopes that the country’s economic system would leave the downturn zone, which turned it into a kind of outsider of the eurozone.

News

Deutsche Börse Launches Regulated Spot Crypto Exchange

Crypto trading on the new Deutsche Börse Digital Exchange (DBDX) for crypto assets is now live.

Finance & Economics

France and Germany to Propose Measures for Economic Growth

French Finance Chief Bruno Le Maire said that in early March he would make proposals to German Economy Minister Robert Habeck to reduce the norms of the European Union, which, in his opinion, are a factor of negative impact on business and create obstacles to economic growth.

Science & Technology

Microsoft to Invest in German AI Infrastructure

Microsoft President Brad Smith announced his intention to direct investment funds for €3.2 billion ($3.4 billion) to the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure in Germany.

Finance & Economics

Germany’s Investor Outlook Improves

For the seventh month in a row, Germany has recorded an improvement in the prospects for investment activity, which gives reason to hope that the worst times for the largest European economic system are in the past and the future will be a space for the implementation of a more favorable scenario.

Finance & Economics

German Prices Ease More Than Expected

At the beginning of the current year, inflation in Germany showed a slowdown, the pace of which turned out to be more significant than initial expectations for the dynamic of the decrease in the intensity of growth in the cost of goods and services.

News

Germany to Back EU AI Act

Germany intends to support the proposals of the European Union on the regulation of artificial intelligence after the Ministry of Transport and Digital Affairs abandoned its position of disagreement with the Law of this bloc of countries on AI.

Fintech & Ecommerce

N26 Rolls Out Stock & ETF Trading

German online bank N26 has launched the long-anticipated Stock and ETF trading product that will allow its customers to buy and sell stocks and ETFs in-app for 0.90 EUR per trade.

Science & Technology

Volkswagen Adds ChatGPT to Vehicle Voice Assistant

Volkswagen plans to add a popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT function into all its car and SUV models equipped with IDA voice assistant.

Finance & Economics

German Budget Crisis Worsens

The German leadership decided on an emergency spending freeze against the background of the decision of the country’s top court, which aggravated the already existing budget crisis, which became a kind of shock factor for Europe’s largest economy.

News

Germany to Help Its Tech Industry to Compete With Silicon Valley

Germany has approved a package of reforms in the sphere of capital that will help this country’s technology sector compete with Silicon Valley.

Science & Technology

German Companies Invest Over $500 Million In AI Startup Aleph Alpha

Aleph Alpha GmbH, a startup operating in the sphere of artificial intelligence, and striving to create a European competitor to large language models developed by OpenAI and Google, managed to raise investment funds for more than $500 million from a consortium of industrial giants and financial investors.

News

Europe’s Biggest Economy Shrinks

According to the results of the third quarter of this year, a decrease in the volume of production activity was recorded in Germany.

News

Instant Payments Play Key Role in Cash Decline: McKinsey

Cash usage declined by nearly 4% globally in 2022, with new developments in instant payments and digital wallets driving cash displacement in certain geographies.

News

Mercedes Pay+ Introduces In-Car Biometric Payments

The partnership between Mercedes and Mastercard enables embedded in-car payments via fingerprint sensor

Blockchain & Crypto

Nigeria Has The Most Crypto-Keen Population Globally

The findings from the global Web3 perception survey showed that 99% of Nigerians are more aware of Web3 and crypto concepts than people in major Western economies