EU Banking Chief Calls for Visa and Mastercard Alternatives
Is Europe too reliant on international payments companies such as Visa and Mastercard? The head of the European…
Financial leakage: Cost of EU’s reliance on US payment network
The Atlantic rift is no longer a crack; it is a canyon. As of January 2026, the veneer…
ECB’s Cipollone pushes back on offline-only digital euro proposal – Ledger Insights
Yesterday, the European Central Bank (ECB) Director Piero Cipollone made a speech about the digital euro to the European…
Digital euro parliamentary debate: is a CBDC the only path to payment sovereignty? – Ledger Insights
The European Parliament rapporteur for the digital euro has proposed giving private payment firms an equal chance to…
Banks Warn Digital Euro Could Impede Private-Sector Payments
The European Central Bank’s digital euro effort is reportedly facing pushback from banks and lawmakers. The central bank…
ECB’s digital euro plan faces strong resistance from European banks
European aerospace companies Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales have announced they will merge their space businesses. The new joint…
PPRO Announces Its Partnership With EPI to Enable Unified Payments for European Consumers Through Wero
PPRO, the leading local payments platform, has partnered with European Payments Initiative (EPI) to secure Principal Membership of…