France Eyes More Wall Street Jobs After Versailles Meeting (2)

Emmanuel Macron spent Monday entertaining some of the biggest names from Wall Street at Versailles, while his government has been working on a series of measures to boost the country’s attractiveness to the financial services industry.

Alexandre Holroyd, a lawmaker from Macron’s Renaissance party, explained the bill he proposed earlier this year at Bloomberg’s Future of Finance event in Paris on Tuesday. The plan includes changes to encourage initial public offerings and direct more investment to smaller companies.

Keeping Paris an attractive place for companies requires “constant work,” Holroyd told an audience of finance executives. “This bill is just ...