{"id":260,"date":"2025-05-21T06:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/italian-postal-service-could-bring-digital-euro-to-millions-ecb-says\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:31:53","slug":"italian-postal-service-could-bring-digital-euro-to-millions-ecb-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/italian-postal-service-could-bring-digital-euro-to-millions-ecb-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian postal service could bring digital euro to millions, ECB says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Poste Italiane could support the final phase of the digital euro rollout thanks to its broad client base, according to ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone.<\/p>\n<p>Poste Italiane might soon do more than deliver mail and manage savings accounts \u2014 it could help bring the digital euro to millions of Italians. That\u2019s according to Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank\u2018s executive board, who floated the idea during an online event hosted by ASviS, Bloomberg <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-20\/poste-italiane-could-be-partner-for-digital-euro-cipollone-says\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, the ECB is still preparing for the rollout of a digital euro and, once the system is in place, it\u2019s going to need reliable partners to handle what Cipollone called \u201cthe last mile,\u201d the final step that actually puts the digital money into people\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>Cipollone said Poste Italiane could help the ECB introduce the digital euro, pointing out that the company \u201chas millions of clients and can easily provide support access to the digital euro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t be a huge leap for Poste Italiane though. Besides delivering letters and packages, the company already offers banking and financial services.<\/p>\n<p>While the idea of a digital euro might sound futuristic, the ECB says it\u2019s becoming a necessary step. More and more people are tapping phones and swiping cards, while the use of cash keeps falling. Cipollone has made the case before that \u201cin the digital age, cash alone cannot do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also tried to reassure the public that this isn\u2019t the end of physical money. The digital euro would \u201ccomplement\u201d cash, not replace it, as it\u2019s designed to offer a state-backed option in a world where most digital payments are handled by private companies.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes smoothly \u2014 including the political side \u2014 Cipollone said the first digital euro transactions could happen \u201cby mid 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poste Italiane could support the final phase of the digital euro rollout thanks to its broad client base, according to ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone. Poste Italiane might soon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}