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Consistent with the idea of ​​promoting emerging technologies in the new digital economy, the NOCASH EVENTS company continues the Banking 4.0 event series – this year’s spring edition being dedicated to blockchain technology.

an article written by Elizaveta Palaznik, Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) business consultant, speaker at Banking 4.0 – international blockchain conference

This year, the Banking 4.0 – Spring edition, dedicated to the impact of blockchain technology in the new digital economy, will be opened by Sebastian Burduja, Minister of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization.

According to a statement from the monetary authority, payment providers may not offer or facilitate crypto services through their applications. The move brings payment fintechs and financial institutions under the same rules in the country.

Crypto ATMs allow people to buy or convert money into cryptoassets. There are no crypto ATM operators registered with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which they must be to operate legally, according to a press release.

The spring edition of Banking 4.0, dedicated to the impact of blockchain technology in the new digital economy, will be organized this year at STUP, on March 23. The event will be organized in a hybrid format, and participation is by invitation only.

„In our view, the ECB’s approach to the digital euro suffers from a wrong focus. As the discussion of the CBDC as a monetary anchor shows, it is mainly based on the digital euro as a payment object and leaves unclear how the payment system in which it would circulate would be organised” – according to a research paper published by SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum.

The discussion showed that there is a strong interest in wholesale CBDC. According to ECB, there will soon be an announcement regarding wholesale CBDC.

Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien, which forms part of Austria’s leading banking group, has become the first major traditional bank in the European Union to move into digital assets through a planned collaboration with Bitpanda Technology Solutions.

The National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics – ICI Bucharest launched the first European institutional platform for trading digital assets, which manages NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) and operates on the basis of decentralized Blockchain and Web3 technologies: https://nft. ici.ro