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ENGLISH SECTION: Why banks need to pay attention to where a digital euro is heading

ENGLISH SECTION: Why banks need to pay attention to where a digital euro is heading The European Central Bank makes clear that the development of its “digital euro” will take several years. Yet given the geopolitical context and the potential impact, banks should better pay attention, ING analysts wrote. This week, the ECB published an overview of the consultation responses it received on its digital euro survey.  The results show a variety of demands a digital euro would need to fulfil, including privacy, security, low costs and ease of use. Before discussing the ECB’s next steps, it’s worth recapping how we got here.

Digital Currency Diem, Formerly Libra, to Include Rigorous KYC

Digital Currency Diem, Formerly Libra, to Include Rigorous KYC Christian Catalini, an MIT Professor and co-founder of Diem (formerly Libra), visited with CNBC yesterday providing a minor update on the much-anticipated cryptocurrency. Libra/Diem lurched into the crypto-sphere in 2019 with great expectations of becoming a non-sovereign digital currency utilized by the hundreds of millions of Facebook users along with a coterie of affiliated supporters. It did not take long for policymakers and regulators to pump the brakes on the project as multiple jurisdictions worried about a digital currency that could potentially supplant fiat currency supported by a central bank. Catalini, well-known in the Fintech world, told CNBC that Diem is taking a phased-in approach while attesting to the expectation that users will go through a rigorous KYC [know your customer] process – a statement that should assuage the regulatory concern of a digital asset being utilized for nefarious activities

Facebook s Libra Flopped Before the Crypto Boom, but Zuck Never Gives Up

It s been nearly two years since Facebook launched its ill-fated Libra cryptocurrency effort. Since then, the popularity and acceptance of cryptocurrencies has soared. But while the world has left Libra for dead, Facebook has not given up on its crypto dreams. In June, 2019, Facebook unveiled plans to create a digital currency called Libra that, once released the next year, would be pegged to hard currencies including the US dollar. As Facebook spun things, Libra would be a democratizing force, a salve for the unbanked, the tech giant s benevolent gift to the world.  It was a sound-and-fury announcement greeted with attendant shock and awe: by cryptocurrency advocates who had dreamt of such a powerhouse getting behind their cause; by established payments players and their merchant customers excited by the convenience of non-government-controlled money transfers; and, less enthusiastically, by governments themselves, chagrined by the notion that Facebook might usurp their autho

Largest crypto exchange names ex-U S senator Baucus adviser

Largest crypto exchange names ex-U S senator Baucus adviser
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