27 Apr 26 @ 12:53

The European Central Bank has moved to reduce one of the biggest practical risks facing the digital euro: fragmentation. By signing agreements with ECPC, nexo standards and the Berlin Group,... read more

15 Mar 26 @ 21:02

The European Central Bank has taken an important step in the evolution of Europe’s wholesale financial architecture with the publication of a roadmap for Appia, a long-term initiative designed to... read more

08 Mar 26 @ 13:02

European Central Bank has warned that the rapid growth of stablecoins could undermine monetary policy in the euro area by draining retail deposits from traditional banks and disrupting the mechanisms through... read more

24 Nov 25 @ 16:29

The European Central Bank (ECB) is accelerating its plans to interlink Europe’s real-time payments infrastructure with fast payment systems overseas, marking an important step in reshaping cross-border transfers between Europe... read more

02 Oct 25 @ 17:20

The European Central Bank (ECB) has taken two important steps towards launching a digital euro, announcing framework agreements that cover both offline functionality and fraud prevention. The decisions highlight the... read more

27 Aug 25 @ 10:58

The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing for its proposed digital euro to enter the payments market at a scale that could fundamentally alter Europe’s financial landscape. Internal documents reveal... read more

03 Jul 25 @ 13:58

The European Central Bank (ECB) has unveiled an ambitious dual-track strategy to integrate distributed ledger technology (DLT) into its settlement infrastructure, signalling a major evolution in the architecture of Europe’s... read more

04 Dec 24 @ 09:00

The European Central Bank (ECB) has released its second progress report on the development of a digital euro, exploring the potential for issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for... read more

25 Jun 24 @ 10:39

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published its first progress report on the digital euro preparation phase, which was launched on 1 November 2023 with the aim of laying the foundations... read more

20 May 24 @ 14:10

The European Central Bank (ECB) is urging European banks with operations in Russia to withdraw as quickly as they can for two reasons: 1) they could be hit by US... read more

14 May 24 @ 17:00

Yesterday, the Eurosystem successfully completed the first experiment in using new DLT technologies for the settlement of wholesale transactions in central bank money. Initially, 16 private companies have been onboarded and... read more

13 Dec 23 @ 10:29

Following the launch of the second euro banknote series – the Europa series – the ECB started to assess the environmental impact of euro banknotes as a means of payment... read more

02 Nov 23 @ 17:43

In recent decades, the world has witnessed a remarkable surge in cross-border payments, driven by the globalisation of trade, capital and migration flows. Global payments are expected to rocket from... read more

04 Oct 23 @ 11:16

The European Central Bank will start exploratory work for financial market settlement based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) starting in 2024, according to minutes published Thursday. The central bank is looking... read more

29 Sep 23 @ 10:35

An European Central Bank unit called the “infinity team” has launched nine trials of generative AI — adapting off-the-shelf systems that can create sophisticated text, images and computer code —... read more

27 Feb 23 @ 17:43

P2P payments, Online and Offline POS payments and then e-commerce payments should be the order of priorities for the digital euro, the European Central Bank has said in documents published on... read more

10 Jan 23 @ 10:43

Cash is still the most frequently used means of payment at POS, but its share is declining according to the latest study on the payment attitudes of consumers in the... read more

17 Nov 22 @ 11:11

The European Central Bank (ECB) has issued a dire warning that a compounding combination of recession, soaring inflation, rising funding costs and lower liquidity is threatening the euro area financial... read more

19 Sep 22 @ 10:55

The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the list of collaborators  they will contract with to develop potential user interfaces for the digital euro. The aim of this prototyping exercise... read more

24 May 22 @ 13:47

In April Payments Cards & Mobile published excerpts of a speech by Fabio Panetta where the Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, started his speech “…Greed and lawlessness... read more