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ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro pilot, using real transactions by ECB and national central bank staff, remains on track for 2027, with 36 market operators helping to prepare it. In an interview published by the ECB on Oct. 24, he framed the project as a way to cut Europe's reliance on non-European payment providers and said he hopes EU lawmakers adopt the legislation by the end of 2026, which could allow issuance as early as 2029. Source: Cointelegraph

The Monetary Authority of Singapore said Bank Negara Malaysia and the Bank of Thailand have joined BLOOM, its initiative for cross-border settlement using tokenized bank deposits and regulated stablecoins, as policymaker members. Visa, Mastercard, Ripple, Nium, Airwallex and Maybank are among the new industry participants, and the World Bank Group also signed on. The announcement did not name a specific token, payment corridor or launch date. Source: The Block