Johann v. Riedenstedt

ECB Eyes Tokenised Market to Tackle EU Finance Fragmentation

ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone has laid out a concrete strategy for building an integrated European market for tokenised financial assets, warning that incompatible platforms could deepen the continent's existing capital market fragmentation. Speaking at the Deutsche Bundesbank's Symposium on the Future of Payments, he pointed to growing global momentum in tokenised finance as evidence that Europe must act now to shape the architecture of its digital financial ecosystem.