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The digital euro now hangs on a 2026 European Parliament vote
The European Central Bank has done its homework on the digital euro. It finished a multi-year preparation phase, picked technical providers, and moved the…
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Project Pontes Is The ECB’s Quiet Rejection Of Multilateral CBDC
The ECB joined BIS Project Nexus as a special observer and committed to launching its in-house Project Pontes pilot in Q3 2026. Read the…
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MiCA’s First Regulated Dollar: Why Paxos’s USDG stablecoin Could Redraw Cross-Border Settlement
The euro zone just gained a fully regulated U.S-dollar stablecoin. On 1 July 2025, Paxos announced that its Global Dollar (USDG) is live across…
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ECB Opens Digital Euro Sandbox to 70 Companies
When the European Central Bank (ECB) first pitched a “digital euro” back in 2020, sceptics complained the project lived inside a lab no merchant…
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Digital Euro déjà vu: Europe’s fast-tracked CBDC e-cash still lacks believers
European Central Bank board member Piero Cipollone was back on the wires last Thursday promising that “by early 2026” politicians will have nailed down…
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