348 results about this entity
Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 12 Aug 2025
News/crypto
The European Central Bank has hit back at public "misconceptions" about the digital euro and its future role as a substitute for physical cash.
26 March 2021
Company announcement/crypto
Throughout history, innovations in money have challenged and altered the structure of the financial system. Time and time again, innovations have given rise to debates about the risks they pose and the rewards they bring, as well as the role of central banks in building confidence in money.
10 February 2021
The European Central bank is toying with the idea of imposing a €3000 limit on consumer CBDC accounts to discourage users from transferring all their cash from commercial banks to the central bank.
09 February 2021
News/sustainable
The European Central Bank is to set up a climate change centre, uniting the disparate work streams operating across the bank.
25 January 2021
The European Commission and European Central Bank are working together to investigate the policy, legal and technical questions emerging from a possible introduction of a digital euro.
20 January 2021
The European Central Bank has received a record of over 8000 responses to its consultation on the creation of a digital euro, an electronic form of central bank money accessible to all citizens and firms.
13 January 2021
Company announcement/people
The Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed Claudia Plattner, currently Chief Information Officer at DB Systel, the IT provider of Deutsche Bahn, to the position of Director General Information Systems as of 1 July 2021.
12 January 2021
The Italian Banking Association is to kick of a techncial feasibnility study on the use of distributed ledger technology for a future digital euro.
23 December 2020
News/payments
Euro area consumers are gradually shifting towards cards for in-person retail payments, although cash remained the most used instrument at the end of 2019, according to data published by the European Central Bank.
02 December 2020
Company announcement/sustainable
The European Central Bank (ECB) today published its final and amended guide on climate-related and environmental risks following a public consultation.
27 November 2020
As news leaks out about a possible 2021 launch for Facebook's digital currency Libra, a senior European Central Bank official warns: "What is at stake is nothing short of the future of money".
The level playing field of payment services could be undermined by the widespread use of stablecoin network, according to Maria Teresa Chimienti, market infrastructure expert at the the European Central Bank.
25 November 2020
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