"The decision is in line with the Eurosystem’s commitment to supporting innovation without compromising on safety and ...

The European Central Bank has green‐lit a pioneering dual‐track framework to enable settlement of transactions on distributed ...

How are central banks set up in the eurozone? What we think of as the European Central Bank is really the “Eurosystem”: the 19 central banks of eurozone countries plus the ECB itself. The vast ...

ECB’s Pontes and Appia plan aims to link DLT with TARGET Services and build a unified settlement system using central bank ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has identified XRP Ledger as the underlying blockchain network for the Axiology distributed ledger technology (DLT) system. Crypto analyst Diep Sahn first noticed this ...

Would Eurosystem Insolvency Matter? This still raises an interesting question. What would happen if the ECB published its weekly balance sheet one day and it showed negative capital?

The Eurosystem is also working towards implementing a cross-currency settlement service within TIPS. This service will allow transfers between all participating TIPS currencies, ...

The controversy in question is that the Eurosystem, that is the European Central Bank and the central banks of the 19 member states, has a fatal flaw: the national central banks can go bankrupt.

The Eurosystem collateral management system is expected to launch on 16 June 2025. This, according to a recent update shared by the ECB.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The heart of Europe’s single currency union lies not in some grandiose parliamentary hall in Brussels ...

The Eurosystem will use this new framework to oversee companies that enable the use of payment cards, direct debits, credit transfers, and e-money. The new framework will also cover crypto-related ...

The Eurosystem revised its cyber resilience strategy to further address evolving cyber threats. The revised strategy updates the original 2017 Strategy taking account of the evolving threat ...