Panel: Strengthening the European retail payments landscape: Public and private sectors join forces

Chair: Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Elie Beyrouthy, Chair, European Payments Institutions Federations
Javier Santamaría, Chair, European Payments Council
Joachim Schmalzl, Chairman of the Board, European Payments Initiative
Madalena Cascais Tomé, Chief Executive Officer, SIBS
Evelien Witlox, Digital Euro Programme Manager, European Central Bank

The Eurosystem’s retail payments strategy and the digital euro project aim to achieve a higher level of efficiency, strategic autonomy and resilience in retail payments, as well as supporting digitalisation and innovation. What is the state of progress of the digital euro? How can the public and the private sectors join forces to strengthen the European retail payments market? How can the co-existence of payment solutions based on central bank and commercial bank money be supported in the digital age?