European Central Bank: We have no plans to issue digital currency

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The central bank's president, Mario Draghi, believes that distributed ledger technologies still require 'substantial further development' and there is no 'concrete need' to issue a digital euro because the use of physical cash is still high in the eurozone. (Source: Reuters)


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