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Testimony of Jean LAURENT

President of the Finance Innovation competitiveness cluster

“In recent years Paris has become one of the world’s leading financial centres. With nearly half a million professionals working for the industry, contributing their world-class expertise,...

... Paris is now Europe's leading centre in the quantitative finance sector. Paris offers many advantages for financial services companies: the French education system combined with the dynamism of the financial companies based in the region makes this an outstanding incubator of expertise in professions which generate high added value, backed up by a regulatory framework which meets the highest international standards.