Piero Cipollone: Money in the digital age
What changed vs prior statement
- 01No material change in policy stance vs prior statement.
- 02Language essentially preserved across key discussions on central bank independence and adaptation to digitalisation.
- 03No vote-record change.
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SPEECH Money in the digital age Speech by Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at Istituto Affari Internazionali Frankfurt am Main, 28 May 2026 For centuries, central banks have issued money and safeguarded its value. That mandate has not changed. What has c
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