Philip Lane, chief economist of the European Central Bank, recently expressed urgency for the need to develop a digital euro—also known as a central bank digital currency (CBDC)—to compete against ...

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Michelle Ann Gitlitz is an adviser and lawyer, specializing in the payments industry. Her new book, Reimagining Payments: The Business Case for Digital Currencies, was published earlier this year.

European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde released a statement on Friday touting the digital euro, a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as a unifying force in the European Union (EU) ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

(Bloomberg) -- Euro-area finance ministers agreed on a key step in their efforts to roll out a digital currency, adding impetus to a project that’s becoming an important counterweight to US ...

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