According to reports, the Central Bank of China announced on September 16 the list of digital euro project partners. Amazon is one of them. Amazon will be responsible for the application of digital euro on e -commerce websites. In this list, Amazon is the only US company selected by the European Central Bank. Other partners include: Bank of Spain CAIXABANK, which will focus on the online payment of experimental digital euro points. Offline payment; European Payment Plan, the plan brings together 31 banks and financial institutions, which will be responsible for experiments using electronic euro payment at the sales point; Finally, Italian electronic payment expert NEXI will apply the digital euro payment application initiated by the experimental merchant.
These five partners were selected from the 54 candidates in April 2022 in the intention solicitation activity launched in April 2022. The European Central Bank clearly stated that the experimental plan will last for two years, and the current experiments will not determine the final number of digital euro. form. The European Central Bank governor said a few months ago that digital euro took at least five years to enter the circulation field. Digital euro will be issued by the Central Bank and has public nature. The main purpose of the European Central Bank’s experimental number euro is to improve the efficiency of cross -border settlement in members and reduce its cost; in addition, it is hoped that it can simplify and speed up the securities settlement process through digital euro.
Post time: Sep-22-2022