European Central Banks Push to Expand Stablecoin Yield Ban to Crypto Lending and Staking
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European Central Banks Push to Expand Stablecoin Yield Ban to Crypto Lending and Staking
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revision is on the table to resolve it. The question now is whether the gap gets closed by redrawing mandates, by recalibrating what the public is told monetary policy can deliver, or simply by being rediscovered during the next shock. #ECB #SupplyShocks #EUFiscalRules
The ECB calls for tougher EU crypto rules and a wider ban on stablecoin interest.
Europe’s central banks want the EU’s crypto rules tightened, calling for a wider ban on interest payments on stablecoins, new powers to curb tokens peg…
#Cryptocurrency #Stablecoins #ECB #Banking #MiCA #ESMA #Finance
The ECB and 27 national central banks asked Brussels to scrap the MiCA rule forcing stablecoin issuers to park 30-60% of reserves in bank deposits.
ECB to put its own money into tokenized securities via new Pontes DLT
Sep 22 2026 11:50 UTC
#ecb #tokenized-securities #pontes #dlt #central-bank-money #public-sector-securities #eurosystem #settlement-system #investment-lifecycle #euro-denominated-securities
ECB opens blockchain link to financial markets
Sep 22 2026 03:15 UTC
The European Central Bank launched a new service on Monday linking its payment system to blockchain-based financial markets and said it would invest some of its own money in digital securities.
#ecb #blockchain #pontes
The ECB says wholesale gas prices now impact Eurozone retail inflation faster (1–3 months), partly because more renewables have eased electricity price pressures. #GasPrices #ECB #Inflation
EZB in der Schuldenfalle
#Paris vis-à-vis “Double Tightening”
#France's spread is an #ECB problem before it is a French one
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#Fed raised the federal funds target range by 25bps to 3.75%–4.00% at its Sept meeting; #ECB has tightened twice this year, calling its latest move a "no-brainer"; and #BoJ continues its exit from ultra-easy policy, chart #GoldmanSachs
Pontes is the ECB’s new bridge between tokenised financial markets and central-bank money, designed to ensure Europe does not build its digital financial future on somebody else’s settlement rails.
We explain how it works & why it's important.
ECB Launches Pontes, a Bank-Only Digital Euro Platform Ahead of 2027 Pilot
Sep 21 2026 16:39 UTC
The ECB launched Pontes, a bank-only digital euro settlement platform, on September 21, 2026, ahead of a broader digital euro pilot in 2027.
#ecb #pontes #digital-euro #tokenized-assets
#ECB's job is not to guarantee that #French yields are always low; it is to ensure that a sovereign spread does not become the mechanism through which one common monetary policy fragments into several different monetary conditions.
#Reuters is describing the widening #France – #Germany spread as if it were primarily a market verdict on French fiscal sustainability. I would say: the spread is #endogenous to the institutional architecture of the #EMU—and ultimately to what the #ECB is willing to do.
Wie profiteert van AI kan de inflatie sterk beïnvloeden, zegt ECB-bestuurder Panetta #AI #inflatie #ECB #monetairbeleid #technologiedevelopments
Tokenisation does not remove the trust anchor. It makes the anchor more important.
The final settlement still sits in central bank money. Pontes is essentially the bridge between programmable finance and that finality.
ECB to invest reserve funds in tokenized securities via new Pontes platform
#ecb #tokenization #pontes