Governor of the Bank of France Francois Villeroy de Galhau has called for urgently introducing a regulatory framework around cryptocurrencies, BFM Business reports.
Otherwise, Europe’s monetary sovereignty would be at risk of erosion, according to the central banker:
I must stress here the urgency: we do not have much time left, one or two years.
Villeroy encouraged the EU to speed up its plans to issue a digital euro:
On both digital currency and payments, we in Europe must be ready to move as quickly as needed or risk an erosion of our monetary sovereignty — something we cannot tolerate.
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Alex DovbnyaHe also took note of the increasingly important role that digital currencies play in financial markets.
As reported by U.Today, Fabio Panetta, a member of the Executive Board, claimed that a digital euro would protect the EU's monetary system from other cryptocurrencies.
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