Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 1 year ago
Just a day before the end of September, the European Central Bank released a report on the progress of the EU’s move toward a digital Euro. Per the report, they are making progress towards a CBDC. Many other countries have made headlines throug...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The ECB’s two-year investigative phase is halfway completed, with key use and policy issues clarified; more stakeholder engagement is planned before the decision is made to proceed....
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), has given her word that the proposed Digital Euro that it will not be used for commercial purposes. (Read More)
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
One of cryptocurrency’s most notable use cases is enabling instant cross-border payments. That’s why the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) program has attracted hundreds of jurisdictions worldwide, and some countries like China have al...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Amazon, the American multinational technology company, has been chosen by the European Central Bank (ECB) alongside four other companies to provide assistance in developing user interfaces intended for a digital Euro.
Regarded as one of the most infl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The European Central Bank (ECB) has selected five companies to help develop user interfaces for a digital euro. Each company will work with the ECB and focus on one specific use case of the digital euro. Amazon has been chosen to focus on e-commerce...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
The European Central Bank (ECB), has confirmed Jeff Bezos's tech company AMAZON, as part of the five partners to design a digital euro prototype (Read More)
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The five fintech, payments and e-commerce firms will create front-end prototypes for the digital euro, which will not be used in later phases of the CBDC project. The...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
"An economy dominated by digital payments but without a strong monetary anchor would be inherently unstable," claimed Rehn. In a novel address at the University of C...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A group of economists evaluating the potential effects of a digital euro have insisted that restricting access to the upcoming currency is necessary to preserve the current financial system. Their study follows an earlier proposal to limit digital eu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Unbacked cryptocurrencies are not an efficient means of payment and stablecoins are vulnerable to runs, top officials at the European Central Bank have pointed out in a new article making the case for a digital euro. The executives have marked key ob...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank, and Fabio Panetta, a member of the ECB’s Executive Board, have shared their thoughts on the need for the digital Euro amidst the waning influence of fiat cash.
In a blog post, Lagarde a...
by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
tldr; Banque de France Governor Francois Villrois de Galo said that the EU is ready to launch the second phase of the test of the wholesale CBDC. The regulator expects to release the digital euro on the open market as early as next year. CBDCs are t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The first phase of experiments with a wholesale digital euro has been completed, and Phase 2 experiments will begin this year, Banque de France governor François Villeroy de Galhau said Tuesday. Four or five new experiments are expected to be launch...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
With concerns about financial stability in mind, the European Central Bank (ECB) plans to limit digital euro holdings, according to Board Member Fabio Panetta. The plan is to have a maximum amount of digital cash in circulation similar to that of eur...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Fabio Panetta, an executive board member of the European Central Bank, or ECB, proposed the central bank limit the total holdings of a digital euro in an effort to prevent the digital currency from being used as a form of investment.In a Wednesday sp...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Fabio Panetta, an executive board member of the European Central Bank, or ECB, has said that a digital euro could come within four years, potentially designed with a person-to-person payment solution.In a Monday speech at the National College of Irel...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The European Central Bank (ECB) continues pushing its central bank digital currency (CBDC) project despite Europeans apparently not feeling too positive about a digital euro.The ECB released another working paper on the digital euro, providing an ext...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The European Central Bank (ECB) is planning to launch a prototype of the digital euro in 2023. In the next five years, Europe could have its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) up and running. However, there are still many questions surrounding...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The European Central Bank (ECB) leans toward a “transparent” digital euro over one that ensures a higher level of privacy for its users, a presentation devoted to the project has indicated. In the document, the monetary authorit...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Next to the fears of government overreach that the European Union’s ambitious digital euro project stirred, the main concern of the public is the prospective currency’s privacy framework. It appears that this worry might not be overblown after all, a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Eurozone’s monetary authority, the Eurosystem, is looking to enlist financial companies willing to develop front-end solutions for the digital euro. The plan is to carry out a “prototyping exercise” this year to test tran...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Progress will continue on the development of the digital euro as the European Central Bank (ECB) and Eurosystem have begun looking for companies to participate in an exercise to prototype customer-facing payments services. Payment service providers,...