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Twelve providers per euro-area national central bank is the largest live test of retail CBDC settlement to date, and it lands as the ECB pushes to finalise the digital euro rulebook by mid-2026.
The test roster covers banks, payment processors, and neobanks across the eurozone, hinting at how the ECB plans to distribute a retail CBDC when the pilot goes live in 2027.
The 12-month pilot covers online, offline, in-store and e-commerce flows across 19 euro-area central banks, with potential issuance targeted for 2029 if EU legislation lands.
The vote ends three years of friction between the ECB and commercial banks, and positions the digital euro as Europe's answer to dollar-pegged stablecoins and Visa and Mastercard's grip on eurozone…
A 37-bank European push for regulated euro tokens faces the same headwind that buried Turkish lira stablecoins: liquidity, not regulation, decides which sovereign currency wins on-chain.
If confirmed, the order would freeze Binance out of the bloc's harmonized EU crypto regime on a single national node — the kind of political signal other MiCA supervisors now have to react to.
A hot May CPI print Wednesday could lock in restrictive Fed pricing and extend spot ETF outflows just as $730M in token unlocks hits a market already down nine months from its highs.
Gold has surpassed U.S. Treasuries to become the world's largest reserve asset, according to the European Central Bank…
The European Central Bank has declared that gold has displaced US Treasuries as the world's leading reserve asset — a…
Europeans run 38% of global stablecoin volume against 0.3% euro supply — and Lagarde's camp just blocked the two levers (looser MiCA liquidity, ECB backstop access) that could have closed the gap.
ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel has made the case that a digital euro is essential to countering the…
Lagarde told EU finance ministers that letting issuers tap ECB liquidity would pull deposits out of the banking system — a position that puts the ECB at odds with euro stablecoin backers warning of…
Lagarde's ECB is standing in front of the gate the industry wants opened — and Bruegel's warning of 'digital dollarization' shows the cost of holding it shut is itself a policy choice.
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