Ulrich Bindseil, Director General of Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank (ECB), Piero Cipollone, member of the ECB’s Executive Board, and Jürgen Schaaf, adviser on Market Infrastructure and Payments, have set out to allay some of the fears of stakeholders in the banking sector about the risk of banking disintermediation if the digital euro project materialises, in an opinion piece published on Monday 19 February in VoxEU, the policy portal of the Centre for...