A member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board, Isabel Schnabel, recently argued that stablecoins threaten financial ...

Euro stablecoins hit €450M in January 2026 while the ECB’s digital euro will not issue before 2029. The bank consortium ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking industry experts to contribute to workstreams focused on how the digital euro central bank digital currency would function across ATMs, payment terminals and ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has concluded a framework agreement in ranking with Feedzai, a RiskOps platform for financial crime prevention, as the first-ranked tenderer, to provide the central ...

The European Central Bank is pressing ahead with plans for a digital euro, establishing new partnerships to help create a free and unified European alternative for digital payments. The digital euro ...

European lawmakers endorsed the ECB’s digital euro plans as a way to shore up the bloc’s monetary sovereignty, while reiterating that the central bank must remain independent. The European Parliament ...

Stablecoins pose a number of risks to financial stability and monetary policy, and the European Central Bank’s best response is to ensure that public money remains the anchor of the system, according ...

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The digital euro is viewed as a strategic tool to safeguard Europe’s monetary independence and prevent reliance on foreign digital payment solutions. The Eurosystem has taken another major step toward ...

The ECB’s Piero Cipollone said the central bank wants key technical standards for a possible digital euro locked in by this summer so banks and merchants can prepare for the rollout. European Central ...

Europe's push to curb its dependence on U.S. payments giants Visa and Mastercard has driven a wedge between the European ...

The European Central Bank is recruiting experts to help draft rules for how a potential digital euro would function in everyday payments, focusing on ATMs and in-store card terminals. One workstream ...