The digital euro will not replace cash and will be accompanied by a legal obligation for retailers to accept banknotes and coins, according to Burkhard Balz, the Bundesbank board member responsible for the project. In…
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The digital euro will not replace cash and will be accompanied by a legal obligation for retailers to…
The digital euro is not a geopolitical weapon or a reaction to recent global tensions, but a necessary…
The European Union needs to accelerate work on a digital euro to reduce its reliance on U.S.-owned payment…
A pilot project involving Siemens, Accenture, and the European Central Bank is providing one of the clearest illustrations…
A new academic paper has delivered one of the most comprehensive critiques yet of the European Central Bank’s…
The European Central Bank has launched a targeted call for technical service providers to help prepare Europe’s payments…
The European Central Bank has agreed to accept certain distributed ledger technology (DLT) based securities as eligible collateral…
The European Central Bank has sharpened its public defence of the digital euro, presenting it as free digital…
At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026, debates about stablecoins and private digital money moved…
The European Central Bank used the published account of its 17–18 December 2025 monetary policy meeting to underline…
Ripple’s recent activity in Europe offers a clear signal of where parts of the crypto industry believe the…
The European Central Bank is sharpening its message to commercial banks: in a fully digital economy, issuing traditional…
India’s central bank has proposed that BRICS countries explore linking their official digital currencies to facilitate cross-border trade…
The European Central Bank has set out detailed plans for a real-world digital euro pilot that will run…
Bitcoin activity in Iran is rising sharply as protests and a collapsing currency push citizens toward alternative forms…