EC Bank has moved two steps ahead with it  digital euro scheme establishment objective that will facilitate a payments system which prioritizes user privacy, mimics cash payments and comes under EU control.

Cash and digital euro have the same objective: ensuring everyone, regardless of their income, can pay in any situation of daily life, says Executive Board member Piero Cipollone. We need to protect this fundamental right across the entire euro area
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A member of the ECB’s board, Mr Prageer Cipollone, mentioned these advancements during a European Parliament hearing by touching on their main issues, like  infrastructure, regulations, and privacy. He said they’re for infrastructure providers predominantly in the EU, and this is a key notion, setting up a rule book to ensure that the project was implemented in generally the same fashion all over the euro area, and users experience it as cash.

The measures such as non-interest rates charges, short term deposits restrictions, and prepayment givebacks are put up to prevent a critical financial crisis. Yet, what came out as the most revealing topic was the platform’s dedication to confidentiality.

The traditional offline mode provides a high degree of privacy, and the on-line data is pseudonymised for data processing purposes. From citizen to the user, democratic nature grants more control than dictatorship-based systems. As for cyber security, this has been improved and is already out of date.

So, individuals and businesses are gradually shifting to the digital form of euro that is not controlled by private firms and additionally, it has the characteristics of privacy and probably looks like that of cash. Nevertheless, there are some implications that are still being considered like legality and the effect on any other private payment provider within the network.

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