• ECB selecting banks that want to take part in pilot phase

  • ECB setup costs to reach around 1.3 bln euros, Cipollone says

  • Banks to pocket fees, won’t have to pay system costs to ECB

  • Merchants will also have an incentive in terms of cap on fees

  • Kushan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Surely they should be doing a bit of all of that, that’s how you reduce risk with investments.

    • dnub@piefed.social
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      2 days ago

      Yes, lend money to people to buy houses or start businesses… everything has risk but don’t expose too much to the inflated US market

      Thinking that banks need to collect a fee for small money transfers it’s not seeing how big banks really are