333 results about this entity
Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 19 Dec 2024
News/sustainable
The European Central Bank is to set up a climate change centre, uniting the disparate work streams operating across the bank.
25 January 2021
News/crypto
The European Commission and European Central Bank are working together to investigate the policy, legal and technical questions emerging from a possible introduction of a digital euro.
20 January 2021
The European Central Bank has received a record of over 8000 responses to its consultation on the creation of a digital euro, an electronic form of central bank money accessible to all citizens and firms.
13 January 2021
Company announcement/people
The Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed Claudia Plattner, currently Chief Information Officer at DB Systel, the IT provider of Deutsche Bahn, to the position of Director General Information Systems as of 1 July 2021.
12 January 2021
The Italian Banking Association is to kick of a techncial feasibnility study on the use of distributed ledger technology for a future digital euro.
23 December 2020
News/payments
Euro area consumers are gradually shifting towards cards for in-person retail payments, although cash remained the most used instrument at the end of 2019, according to data published by the European Central Bank.
02 December 2020
Company announcement/sustainable
The European Central Bank (ECB) today published its final and amended guide on climate-related and environmental risks following a public consultation.
27 November 2020
As news leaks out about a possible 2021 launch for Facebook's digital currency Libra, a senior European Central Bank official warns: "What is at stake is nothing short of the future of money".
The level playing field of payment services could be undermined by the widespread use of stablecoin network, according to Maria Teresa Chimienti, market infrastructure expert at the the European Central Bank.
25 November 2020
Company announcement/payments
The European Central Bank (ECB) will launch an independent review of an incident that affected its real-time gross settlement system TARGET2 on 23 October 2020, causing an outage for almost 10 hours.
16 November 2020
The European Central bank has blamed a software defect at a third party technology provider for an outage that downed the Target2 settlement system for almost 11 hours on Friday.
28 October 2020
A complete failure of all payment transactions within the Target2 system was experienced for several hours on Friday, with backup systems and contingency modules also initially unable to function.
26 October 2020
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