European Central Bank (ECB)

309 results about this entity

Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 19 Apr 2024

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ECB further delays deadline for launch of unified collateral management platform

The European Central Bank has further delayed the launch of its new collateral management system, shifting the deadline from April 2024 to November 2024.

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EU data protection watchdog calls for more privacy for digital euro

The European data protection watchdog has recommended changes to EU draft legislation for a digital euro in order to boost privacy standards.

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ECB experiments with ChatGPT-style AI

The European Central Bank is exploring the use of ChatGPT-like large-language models for things such as document analysis and software testing.

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Sibos 2023: What will a digital euro look like?

As the digital euro project comes to the end of its investigation phase, Ulrich Bindseil and Evelien Witlox from the European Central Bank provided the Sibos audience with an update on the progress made so far and what comes next.

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ECB paints PayPal's stablecoin as new bogeyman in CBDC race

The European Central Bank believes that PayPal's decision to launch its own stablecoin eloquently makes the case for the development of a digital euro.

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ECB must gauge digital euro’s impact on banks before launch - Bank of Spain official

Margarita Delgado, deputy governor of the Bank of Spain, has made comments that the European Central Bank (ECB) needs to measure the impact of the digital euro on the euro zone's banking system before any final decision on its potential launch.

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ECB surveys Europeans on new themes for euro banknotes

The European Central Bank (ECB) is asking European citizens about their views on the proposed themes for the next series of euro banknotes.

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EC stresses privacy in digital euro plan

The European Commission has published its legislative proposal establishing the legal framework for a possible digital euro, stressing that the CBDC would be a compliment to, not replacement for, cash.

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CaixaBank co-develops prototype for a personal payments wallet using the digital euro

CaixaBank has co-developed a prototype for a personal payments wallet using the digital euro.

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EPI contributes to CBDC prototyping exercise conducted by the European Central Bank

EPI contributed to the prototyping exercise conducted by the European Cental Bank (ECB) to test how design choices for a digital euro could be implemented into existing European payments solutions.

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Worldline delivers offline P2P prototype for digital euro

As one of five selected companies by the European Central Bank (ECB), Worldline, a global leader in payment services, is proud to announce its participation in the offline digital euro front-end prototype testing, as part of the ECB investigation exercise.

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Card fraud in Europe declines significantly

The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published its card fraud report, which is based on information provided by 20 card payment scheme operators.

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Croatia joins Target network

Croatia, the 20th member of the euro area, is joining all TARGET Services.

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European Parliament paper pours cold water on digital euro

The risks of rolling out a digital euro currently outweigh the benefits and a CBDC should not be introduced unless "new elements " emerge, says a paper prepared for the European Parliament.

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ECB sets out latest digital euro thinking

A digital euro could be made available via existing banking apps or via a dedicated Eurosystem app, according to the ECB's latest progress report on the project.

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ECB to monitor digital transformation efforts at banks

The European Central Bank is to undertake targeted reviews and on-site inspections at banks after uncovering a number of shortcomings in digital transformation strategies.

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Go-live of the T2-T2S consolidation project confirmed

Following an assessment by the Market Infrastructure Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), the Governing Council of the ECB has confirmed the go-live date for the T2-T2S consolidation project.

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ECB IT chief quits to lead German cybersecurity efforts

The Director General Information Systems of the European Central Bank (ECB), Claudia Plattner, will leave the central bank to join the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

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ECB to stress test 99 banks

The European Central Bank (ECB) will stress test a total of 99 directly supervised banks in 2023. ECB supervisors will examine 57 of the euro area’s largest banks, which were selected to cover broadly 75% of the area’s banking assets, as part of the 2023 EU-wide stress test coordinated by the European Banking Authority (EBA).

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ECB contemplates development of basic digital euro app

The European Central Bank is considering a new digital euro app, which would include basic payment functionalities and create a standardised approach to connecting end users to intermediaries.