ECB joins European standardisation bodies to standardise the digital euro

The European Central Bank (ECB) has just taken a strategic step in the preparation of the digital euro, announcing an unprecedented partnership with three key standardisation bodies: European Card Payment Cooperation (ECPC), the Nexo Standards Association and the Berlin Group, a pan-European payment interoperability standard body. Objective: to ensure a more fluid, secure and homogeneous adoption of payments in Digital euro At the continental level, while reducing European dependence on non-European proprietary standards.