The discussion showed that there is a strong interest in wholesale CBDC. According to ECB, there will soon be an announcement regarding wholesale CBDC.
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Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien, which forms part of Austria’s leading banking group, has become the first major traditional bank in the European Union to move into digital assets through a planned collaboration with Bitpanda Technology Solutions.
The National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics – ICI Bucharest launched the first European institutional platform for trading digital assets, which manages NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) and operates on the basis of decentralized Blockchain and Web3 technologies: https://nft. ici.ro
This third-party service, provided by Koinly, a global crypto tax service, „will enable Revolut customers to access our partner’s smart solution designed to simplify the tracking of information needed to generate tax reports from trading crypto and facilitate compliance with any tax obligations that may arise” – according to the press release.
Subiectul va fi dezbatut pe larg la conferinta internationala Banking40.ro, din 30 mai. Biletele au fost puse in vanzare. Parlamentul a aprobat joi primele reguli ale UE pentru urmărirea transferurilor de cripto-active, prevenirea spălării banilor, precum și reguli comune privind supravegherea și protecția clienților. Textul își propune să se asigure că transferurile cripto, așa cum este cazul oricărei alte operațiuni financiare, pot fi întotdeauna urmărite și tranzacțiile suspecte blocate.
Parliament endorsed the first EU rules to trace crypto-asset transfers, prevent money laundering, as well as common rules on supervision and customer protection.
Societe Generale–FORGE, a fully integrated and regulated subsidiary of Societe Generale group dedicated to digital assets, launches the EUR CoinVertible, a digital asset that purports to maintain a stable value (stablecoin). EUR CoinVertible is deployed in Euro denomination on the Ethereum public blockchain (ticker code: EURCV).
The Bank of Israel is preparing an action plan for the potential issuance of a digital shekel (SHAKED), despite the fact that a decision has not yet been made as to whether the Bank intends on doing so, according to a press release.
After reaching an all-time high of more than 39,100 in December 2022, the number of Bitcoin ATMs or crypto ATMs significantly dropped this year. According to data presented by BitcoinCasinos.com, almost 5,500 Bitcoin ATMs have been removed in the first quarter of 2023, with their total number falling to around 33,800 worldwide.
The BIS’s most recent CBDC survey, conducted in 2021, found that nine out of 10 central banks are now exploring CBDCs, with half developing or running concrete experiments. The survey also showed that more than two-thirds of central banks are likely to issue a retail CBDC in the short or medium term (within the next six years). The CBDC subject will be discussed at Banking 4.0 international blockchain conference.
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