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31 Mar 23 @ 11:36
Not wanting to go unheard in this important period of discovery with the digital euro project, the ESBG has been taking an active role in digital euro-related discussions and overall... read more
29 Mar 23 @ 10:26
The European Banking Federation (EBF) has published a vision paper on a Digital Euro Ecosystem. The EBF sets forth its perspective on the digital money ecosystem of the future, where... 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
07 Feb 23 @ 15:00
The UK’s Treasury and the Bank of England have announced a new, bullish timeframe for the build and launch of a digital pound CBDC. The UK Treasury and Bank of... read more
17 Jan 23 @ 11:00
Since the launch of the investigation into the possible issuance of a digital euro in October 20211 in response to the invitation by Leaders at the Eurosummit, the Eurogroup has held... read more
24 Nov 22 @ 17:03
In a recent speech by Mr. Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the 20th Anniversary Conference of the BIS Representative Office for the Americas, he spoke... read more
14 Nov 22 @ 16:19
29 Spanish banks have shared their plans to pilot digital euro payments during a Proof of Concept that they hope to implement this year. The banks, including BBVA, Sabadell, Santander, ING... read more
06 Oct 22 @ 09:37
More than 340 million Europeans carry euro banknotes and coins around as cash and pay in euro when they shop online. One of the key ECB responsibilities, alongside its main... 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
15 Mar 22 @ 13:19
Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, was recently involved in a panel to discus central bank digital currencies at the US Monetary Policy Forum in New... read more
21 Jun 21 @ 13:04
The introduction of a digital euro would boost consumers’ privacy and protect the eurozone from the “threat” of competing cryptocurrencies that could undermine the bloc’s monetary sovereignty, according to the... read more
21 Apr 21 @ 14:11
Plans for the much vaunted digital euro have started to take shape this week after the findings from the ECB’s public consultation and signals from Frankfurt that offer some relief... read more
06 Apr 21 @ 10:00
The possibility of a digital euro is setting high expectations. But it is also raising questions. At the ECB we take people’s concerns seriously, and are thus committed to clearing... read more
23 Feb 21 @ 17:00
Throughout history, innovations in money have challenged and altered the structure of the financial system, but perhaps non more so than the concept of a digital euro. Time and time... read more
04 Feb 21 @ 17:02
The European Central Bank has announced that it will take the enormous decision in spring, whether to move ahead with the initial work to launch a digital euro. The complex... read more
23 Nov 20 @ 15:53
Christine Lagarde, the head of the European Central Bank, appears serious about a digital euro. Barely a month after the central bank issued a major report on the topic, and opened a public... read more
05 Oct 20 @ 18:15
The European Central Bank (ECB) has released a report in which it states the importance they are placing on a potential digital euro which they are seriously considering and studying... read more
21 Sep 20 @ 09:01
The ECB says it is still assessing whether to introduce a digital euro and that it will soon share findings of a task force before launching a final public consultation.... read more
21 May 20 @ 12:58
Banque de France, the French central bank, has completed what it is calling the first successful test of a digital euro, as part of its ongoing experiments with central bank... read more
02 Apr 20 @ 15:48
The Banque de France, France’s central bank, has begun testing its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the form of a digital Euro, according to an official announcement. The topic... read more
16 Jun 26 @ 18:17
Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more
11 Jun 26 @ 16:00
A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more
23 Jun 26 @ 18:52
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest ba... more
