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Bankers Urge EU to Proceed With Caution on Digital Euro

Bankers Urge EU to Proceed With Caution on Digital Euro
Bankers Urge EU to Proceed With Caution on Digital Euro
June 16, 2022  |  CBDC

A trade group representing the banking industry is urging European Union officials exploring the creation of a digital euro to proceed slowly and carefully. Get...

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ECB Official Touts Public-Private Cooperation in Payments Digitization
ECB Official Touts Public-Private Cooperation in Payments Digitization
June 16, 2022  |  Europe

The European Central Bank (ECB) will be eyeing the effects of digitization, including ways to “stay at the technological frontier and satisfy consumers’ demand for...

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EMEA Daily: Bank of Ghana Introduces GhanaPay Mobile Wallet
EMEA Daily: Bank of Ghana Introduces GhanaPay Mobile Wallet
June 16, 2022  |  Cross-border Payments

In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the Bank of Ghana has introduced a brand new mobile wallet, GhanaPay. Plus,...

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Meta Announces Commitment to Advertising Antitrust Moves
Meta Announces Commitment to Advertising Antitrust Moves
June 16, 2022  |  Facebook / Meta

France’s Competition Authority said Thursday (June 16) it had accepted promises by Facebook parent Meta Platforms to share some advertising data with competitors in the...

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ECB’s Panetta Urges Firms to Adopt EU Instant Payment Solutions
ECB’s Panetta Urges Firms to Adopt EU Instant Payment Solutions
June 16, 2022  |  Real-Time Payments

The European Union should continue working on a pan-European payment solution based on instant payments and a digital euro to avoid relying on United States...

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Europe New Battleground in Fight Against Platform Monopolies
Europe New Battleground in Fight Against Platform Monopolies
June 16, 2022  |  Big Tech

In Apple’s ongoing antitrust woes, the locus of the company’s legal concerns is increasingly moving from the U.S. to Europe as investigations by EU and...

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FinTech IPO Index Plummets 13%, Worst Weekly Showing This Year
FinTech IPO Index Plummets 13%, Worst Weekly Showing This Year
June 16, 2022  |  IPO

Perhaps the best thing that could be said about this terrible, no good, lousy week is that … it could’ve been worse. Get the Full...

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Circle Debuts Euro Stablecoin
Circle Debuts Euro Stablecoin
June 16, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

With Circle’s announcement today of a new euro-denominated stablecoin called Euro Coin, the second-largest issuer of dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies is making a play for leadership of...

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