EghtesadOnline: Bpifrance , the country’s state investment bank, will finance projects of French companies in Iran from 2018, granting up to €500 million ($598 million) in annual credits, its CEO said in a newspaper interview on Sunday.

EghtesadOnline: France will start offering euro-denominated credits to Iranian buyers of its goods later this year, a move to bolster trade while keeping it outside the reach of US sanctions, the head of state-owned investment bank Bpifrance said.