Tagged: ecb

March 19, 2020 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council has announced a €750 billion bailout package to mitigate the economic impact of the Coronavirus or COVID-19. The ECB decided to: To launch a new temporary asset purchase programme of private and public sector securities to counter the… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has partnered with Reply, a platform focused on digital innovation, in order to offer a 48-hour coding marathon, which will focus on teaching participants how to apply the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms. The marathon is… Read More

January 9, 2020 @ 9:14 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Former IMF managing director and newly-appointed president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, says Europe’s central bank has set up a special committee to study the feasibility and “unintended side effects” of a central bank digital currency. Lagarde made the comments at the… Read More

January 6, 2020 @ 2:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

CBDCs Could Disintermediate in a Structural Way the Banking System. The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a paper on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).  CBDCs are the state form of stablecoins – cryptocurrency based off a single asset like the Dollar, Euro or Pound… Read More

January 3, 2020 @ 4:51 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Jens Weidmann, President of Germany’s central bank (Bundesbank) and a governing councilor at the European Central Bank (ECB), told Handelsblatt this week that much needs to be understood before central banks should get into issuing a digital currency like Facebook’s Libra or Bitcoin, commonly referred… Read More

December 3, 2019 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Benoît Cœuré, the outgoing European Central Bank Executive Board Member – and an individual some thought was the best person to lead ECB before Christine Lagarde was selected, has delivered an interesting speech in Brussels lambasting the state of the European Union and the lack… Read More

October 1, 2019 @ 2:27 am By Cali Haan  |  

The president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has proscribed Estonia’s plan to issue a state-managed digital currency (or Central Bank Digital Currency – CBDC): “I will comment on the Estonian decision: no member state can introduce its own currency…The currency of the euro… Read More

September 5, 2019 @ 1:14 am By Cali Haan  |  

Outgoing IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has called for the careful regulation of cryptocurrencies and the Fintech sector in a campaign speech she made before the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament this week. Lagarde has been nominated to lead the European Central Bank… Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 9:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Private money on the scale of Facebook’s Libra is dangerous and likely contrary to the public good, Yves Mersch, Executive Board Member of the ECB told the ESCB Legal Conference in Frankfurt September 2nd: “In the field of money, history bears testament to two basic truths…. Read More

August 7, 2019 @ 11:44 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) says it is working to close gaps in its crypto-network monitoring regime in order to ensure that risks, “currently contained and/or manageable,” do not, “increase over time and have future implications,” for mainstream financial systems. “Spillover effects may…be transmitted to… Read More

September 17, 2018 @ 7:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

Costs presently outweigh benefits, and so the European Central Bank (ECB), “has no plans to issue a central bank digital currency,” at this time, though it is investigating the matter, says ECB president, Mario Draghi. Draghi made the comments in a September 12th letter responding… Read More

February 8, 2018 @ 6:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, spoke at a forum in London. Mersch addressed the topic du jour: cryptocurrencies and the future of virtual money in the digital age. Mersch posed the question as to whether or… Read More

November 27, 2017 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Speaking in Brussels last week, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), addressed the topic of digital currencies. Siegfried Mureşan (PPE), speaking on behalf of Tom Vandenkendelaere who was unable to attend the meeting, posed this question to Draghi regarding the emergence of cryptocurrencies; “Over… Read More

September 25, 2017 @ 4:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a “Guide to assessments of Fintech credit institution licence applications.” The purpose of the Guide is described as seeking to enhance transparency for potential Fintech bank applicants and increase their understanding of the procedures and criteria applied by… Read More

May 31, 2017 @ 11:40 am By JD Alois  |  

During a hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, addressed the hot topics of Fintech and Blockchain technology (Distributed Ledger Technology or DLT). In prepared remarks, Draghi spoke about the economic… Read More

July 21, 2016 @ 8:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

One day, in the not so distant future, taking trips to the local bank branch will be a thing of the past. No more queuing up to be scowled at while swiping a plastic card. Yes, I know. My parents and your parents cannot imagine… Read More