The European Union’s central bank is reportedly pushing for a digital euro to counter US President Donald Trump’s embrace of dollar-pegged private sector stablecoins.
European Central Bank (ECB) board member Piero Cipollone said at a conference on Friday that Trump’s new executive order on crypto could drive people away from banks, Reuters reports.
-->“I guess the key word here (in Trump’s executive order) is worldwide. This solution, you all know, further disintermediates banks as they lose fees, they lose clients… That’s why we need a digital euro.”
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to evaluate the creation of a strategic national Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto stockpile.
The order also calls for the government to “promote the development and growth of lawful and legitimate” dollar-pegged stablecoins created in the private sector.
It further mandates that federal agencies halt any actions related to the development of a government-backed digital version of the dollar, otherwise known as a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
The administration’s new leadership at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also rescinded Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, a controversial rule that forced banks to identify crypto assets held on behalf of their customers as liabilities on their balance sheets.
