European Central Bank

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Economy
The future of money
Luxembourg payment firms enter the digital euro’s first real-world test
Two Luxembourg-regulated payment companies have been selected for the ECB’s digital-euro pilot. Their role is to test distribution and acceptance, while EU lawmakers and the ECB retain decision-making authority.
By Jonas Thill16 July 2026
Economy
Obituary
Alan Greenspan, Fed chair who shaped the modern financial era, dies at 100
Alan Greenspan, who led the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 and became the defining central banker of the globalisation era, has died aged 100. His low-rate, deregulatory tenure built much of the modern financial system, but his reputation was shadowed by the 2008 crisis that followed his exit.
By Jonas Thill22 June 2026