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European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel is expected to cut short her term—which runs through the end of 2027—to take a senior position at the International Monetary Fund. According to people familiar with the matter, she is set to become director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department, with an announcement possible

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launching Pontes to allow wholesale tokenised asset transactions to settle in central bank money. ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market Pontes is designed as a bridge between distributed ledger networks and the Eurosystem’s TARGET

Circle announced that Binance has invested $100 million in Circle’s stock in a private placement at a 5% discount price. The investment coincides with a new five year deal between the two companies, although in reality it extends last year’s deal by a year, the third rewrite in under two years. Circle pays Binance monthly

From 21 September, Monday, Banks and financial infrastructure providers can settle tokenised assets in central bank money. The debate over stablecoins and tokenised bank deposits is now underway. On 21 September, Monday, the European Central Bank launched Pontes, a short-term operative solution. Such Eurosystem infrastructure allows to settle with central bank money wholesale transactions on

A joint report from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the European Association of Corporate Treasurers (EACT) argues that distributed ledger technology has crossed the threshold from capital markets experimentation into practical tooling for corporate treasury teams. The paper maps DLT applications across ten areas of corporate finance, from cross border payments