Speech by Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of Banque de France, 'The challenges of the digital euro', given at Labex Réfi Conference The new challenges of financial regulation.
In his summing up, the First Deputy Governor said "given the way in which investigations are being conducted into a digital euro, ... it is unlikely that banks will be erased from a future payments landscape in which stablecoins and central bank digital currency dominate. My wish is that banks will assist the ECB and Eurosystem central banks in conducting these investigations, so that we are ready when needed to roll out a digital euro that can be a positive addition to the European payments landscape."