310 results about this entity
Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 30 Apr 2024
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
News/crypto
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
Company announcement/payments
The European Central Bank (ECB) will launch an independent review of an incident that affected its real-time gross settlement system TARGET2 on 23 October 2020, causing an outage for almost 10 hours.
16 November 2020
The European Central bank has blamed a software defect at a third party technology provider for an outage that downed the Target2 settlement system for almost 11 hours on Friday.
28 October 2020
A complete failure of all payment transactions within the Target2 system was experienced for several hours on Friday, with backup systems and contingency modules also initially unable to function.
26 October 2020
Company announcement/regulation
The Governing Council of the ECB has decided to reschedule the launch of the Eurosystem Collateral Management System (ECMS) from November 2022 to November 2023.
During the ‘Retail Payments Strategy’ webinar held Wednesday , the European Commission’s Eric Ducoulombier, head of retail financial services and payment unit, spoke to the subject of digital currencies and the future of a digital euro.
14 October 2020
News/crime
Appearing at Sibos 2020, Fiona van Echelpoel, deputy director general, ECB, dove into the biggest cyber threats facing financial services as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold.
09 October 2020
Drilling down into the biggest threats facing financial services during Covid-19, industry heavyweights provide their perspectives on the changing face of cyber threats and where our biggest vulnerabilities reside during day 3 of Sibos 2020.
07 October 2020
The European Central Bank is kicking off a project with Sverige Riksbank that will investigate whether and how Target Instant Payment Settlement (Tips) could support payment transactions across different currencies.
06 October 2020
The European Central bank is to conduct a public consultation on the possible creation of a digital euro, after a high-level taskforce sketched out possible scenarios that would require central banks to mint their own cryptocurrency.
02 October 2020
In a confidential letter sent to the participants of EURO1 large value payments and the STEP1 platform Wednesday, EBA Clearing announced delays to testing and live implementation dates.
01 October 2020
Company announcement
SkySparc, an independent solutions provider, has been re-selected by the European Central Bank (ECB) to provide comprehensive consultancy services for four years to support its use of the Wallstreet Suite (WSS).
17 September 2020
The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, has suggested that the Euro Zone's central bankers are close to making a decision on whether to press ahead with the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
11 September 2020
News/regulation
The European Central Bank has bemoaned the absence of an EU challenger capable of taking on the might of Big Tech cloud providers from the US.
27 August 2020
News/wholesale
The European Central Bank (ECB) has formally approved a one year extension to its T2-T2S consolidation project.
28 July 2020
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