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The ECB lawmakers favored Cipollone’s candidacy to steer forward the agenda of a digital Euro to reinforce the public money infrastructure amid the mainstream adoption of digital assets. The European Union is preparing to roll out its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in a few years to keep its economic outlook
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied The European Central Bank executive, Fabio Panetta, stated in a speech that the EC proposal for the digital euro could give the CBDC legal tender status. In a speech at the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, the
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“We want to be sure that in any situation, in any circumstance, we will have a framework that would allow all European citizens to pay everywhere in a safe and efficient manner at cheap costs,” Panetta told the committee. He cited ECB research that suggests citizens see the ability to
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Fabio Panetta, a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB), has stated that companies increasing their profit margins could be helping to fuel inflation. In an interview with the New York Times, Panetta warned about the effect that companies increasing such margins could have on inflation
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The ECB is currently one of around 100 central banks investigating a central bank digital currency, and is due to consider whether to go ahead later this year. Some observers have touted as an advantage the ability to limit onward use of a digital currency – for example as food
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A solution that builds on existing interbank settlement infrastructure, instead of one based entirely on DLT, can be implemented "more rapidly" according to ECB executive board member Fabio Panetta. Source
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Unbacked cryptocurrencies are not an efficient means of payment and stablecoins are vulnerable to runs, top officials at the European Central Bank have pointed out in a new article making the case for a digital euro. The executives have marked key objectives for the project which should provide Europeans with
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A digital euro, if issued, would be capped at 1.5 trillion euros (US$1.6 trillion), Panetta told the committee. A concern with CBDCs is that consumers might keep all their money in the digital format, in effect depositing their entire savings with the central bank and starving consumer banks of the
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“The idea would be that, let’s say, four years from now, we will be ideally ready to issue the digital euro,” Fabio Panetta, a member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board, told a Monday event at the National College of Ireland. “It’s a very complex project, never done before
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The central banker compared crypto market dynamics to the 2008 financial crisis and called for extra regulation and taxes. Original Source
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