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title: "Nicolas Siegler, Maif: ‘we choose European solutions in more than 50% of cases’ — Marsanne Studio AI watch"
description: "Maif says it has adopted Scaleway, Mistral and Diabolocom thanks to a sovereignty criterion built into its calls for tender a year ago."
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Interview · 2 October 2026

# Nicolas Siegler, Maif: ‘we choose European solutions in more than 50% of cases’

Original title, in French: “Nicolas Siegler, Maif : « nous choisissons des solutions européennes dans plus de 50 % des cas »”

**Publication**

IT for Business (France)

**Author**

Reynald Fléchaux

**Published on**

2 October 2026 · read in the page structured data · updated on 3 October 2026

## Summary

In this interview, Nicolas Siegler, deputy managing director for IT at Maif, details the integration, around a year ago, of a sovereignty criterion into the mutual insurer's calls for tender. This criterion, which is not eliminatory, has nevertheless led to European solutions being chosen in more than 50% of large calls for tender, including the Scaleway-Mistral pairing for generative AI and Diabolocom to replace Genesys in customer relations. The criteria examined include the location of the head office, ownership of the capital, R&D and data centres. Siegler also discusses AI-driven code automation, still at the experimental stage, and the in-sourcing of developers (around 150 in-house), which makes it possible to challenge proprietary software vendors facing significant price increases.

Summary based on the full text of the article.

[Read the article on IT for Business →](https://www.itforbusiness.fr/maif-critere-souverainete-solutions-europeennes-107953)

## Figures cited

-   50 %
    
    share of large calls for tender resulting in the choice of European solutions
    
    Maif, calls for tender over the past year
    
    > « Ce qui m’a le plus étonné lors de cette période, c’est de voir que nous avons abouti, dans plus de 50 % des cas sur les gros appels d’offres, au choix de solutions européennes, sans avoir à forcer le destin. »
    
-   150 people
    
    number of in-house developers at Maif
    
    Maif
    
    > « Maif dispose d’environ 150 développeurs en interne, NDLR »
    

## Classification

**Country**

France

**Company size**

Large companies

**Industries**

Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms

**Companies**

Scaleway (supplier), Diabolocom (supplier), Mistral (supplier), OpenAI (cited), MAIF (deploys AI), Genesys (cited)

**Keywords**

digital sovereignty, generative AI, sovereign cloud, call for tender, customer relations, mistral

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to IT for Business and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.