Decryption – The United States is about to win in the field of digital payments, a crucial issue of sovereignty for Europe.
After years of procrastination, discussions around the digital euro accelerate under pressure from Washington. “” Faced with the rapid development of the Dollar Stablecoins, our first response is interbank central bank digital currency (MNBC) and the digital euro, which maintains the key role of the central currency in the digital space ”said the governor of the Banque de France, François Villeroy de Galhau, last week during the Paris Europlace forum. These technical terms are not yet familiar with the general public. However, they evoke a fundamental movement, the digitization or tokenization of finance, which will soon also affect individuals. Europeans currently have a serious delay in this area. Delay that threatens, if it is not absorbed, to definitively pass the financing system of the old continent under American influence.
Concretely, tokenization amounts to transforming assets …