CFDs and Crypto Adverts Lose Grip on France’s Investment Ad Market
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 4:23 pm
CFDs and crypto adverts have dropped in France, even though they continue to comfortably rake in over 35 percent of the investment marketing budgets spent in the country. The blow came just months after France’s authorities decided to ban ads of financial products based on cryptocurrencies, and also restricted online promotions for CFDs and other speculative instruments.
France’s financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), on Friday revealed that market share of CFDs and similar speculative investments ads shrank to one quarter of all financial ads in the January-September period of this year. This compared to a ... (read more)