Members of the EU Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs voted today to adopt the recently-released report on virtual currencies. According to an EDCAB (European Digital Currency & Blockchain Technology Forum) report, the vote passed with 54 members approving the measure and only 1 member disapproving, in addition to 2 absentee members. The report, which was released in February by EU Parliament member Jakob von Weizsäcker, called for the formation …
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EDCAB – a new Brussels based public policy platform for digital currencies and distributed ledger technologies – organises a flagship roundtable series in the European Parliament, during a critical week for industry. Traditional financial services players such as Barclays and Nasdaq joined leaders from the virtual currency and blockchain world, to meet with policymakers from across the EU institutions in a series of roundtables organised by EDCAB in the European …
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Members of the European Parliament will be given the opportunity to learn about blockchain technology and distributed ledgers in next week’s conference on digital currencies. The event will be hosted by The EU Parliament and representatives from the IMF, Bank of International Settlements, United Nations and many other academic institutions and regulatory bodies, will be in attendance. Many European financial firms and banks have started experimenting with the technology in …
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