On 15 October 2026 the Riksbank published a letter to the Riksdag’s Committee on Finance, dated 7 October 2026, explaining why the question of a digital krona, the instrument it used to call the e-krona, is back on the table. The letter estimates that implementing a digital krona would take the Riksbank and the market…
On 18 August 2026 the European Central Bank asked a narrow slice of the technology industry a very specific question: are the secure-hardware standards behind the offline digital euro mature enough, and does the market support them? The call for expression of interest, published through the ECB’s market infrastructure and payments news channel, gives interested…
On 14 July 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) confirmed it will take part in the European Central Bank’s digital euro pilot, joining the ECB and 18 other Eurosystem national central banks in a controlled test of a beta version of the digital euro. The same day the ECB named the 36 payment service…