European Central Bank (ECB)

347 results about this entity

Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 28 Jul 2025

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Europe must provide more support for stablecoins or face subservience to the US dollar

Jürgen Schaaf, an economist and advisor to the European Central Bank's Market Infrastructure and Payments division, says more support should be provided for properly regulated euro-denominated stablecoins to ward off the threat posed by US dollar-backed tokens.

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ECB accelerates digital euro preparation work

The European Central Bank is accelerating work on a digital euro to keep up with the "ambitious pace" set by EU leaders as the project's urgency increases in the face of geopolitical challenges including an increasingly hostile United States under Donald Trump.

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ECB outlines plans for integrated regulatory reporting across Europe

European and national authorities have joined forces with banks to integrate reporting requirements across Europe.

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ECB commits to distributed ledger technology settlement plans

The European Central Bank has agreed to a dual-track strategy for integrating distributeed ledger technology with Target settlement services in the wholesale market.

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Eurosystem launches single collateral management system

The Eurosystem successfully launched its new, unified Eurosystem Collateral Management System (ECMS) on 16 June 2025 after the migration to the new set-up was completed over the weekend of 13-15 June.

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ECB sets back deadline for non-bank PSP access to Target

The European Central bank has postponed a deadline for allowing non-bank payment service providers (PSPs) to access central bank-operated payment systems, including the Target settlement system.

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Fluency to test offline and programmable payments for ECB's digital euro project

The European Central Bank has selected UK-based deep tech company Fluency to run intiatives in programmable and offline payments for the digital euro project.

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ECB onboards private sector firms to digital euro innovation platform

The European Central Bank is stepping up preparatory work on a digital euro, opening an innovation platform where nearly 70 private sector market participants can explore functionalities and use cases.

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EU central banks explore synchronised settlement in FX

The Bank for International Settlements and its central bank partners have successfully demonstrated how wholesale payment infrastructures, such as RTGS systems, can interoperate with each other for FX transactions via new technologies, such as distributed ledgers.

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Danish Krone arrives on T2 and Tips

As of 22 April 2025, Danish market participants are able to settle wholesale and retail payments in Danish krone instantly in the Eurosystem’s T2 and TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) services.

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Europe needs digital euro to counter risk of economic coercion - ECB economist

Europe needs a digital currency to safeguard against threats from new forms of money like stablecoins, and to reduce reliance on US payments firms amid heightened political tensions, warns European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane.

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Eurosystem to offer Sepa-wide VoP scheme

The central banking system of the Euro zone is to offer a Verification of Payee service for PSPs in the Single Euro Payments Area.