ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board
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The ECB opened a call for firms to test AI agents, machine-to-machine payments, and related digital euro uses before a separate pilot planned for 2027. The program is set up to look at automated transactions, micropayments, and e-receipts, with one run described as lasting from January to June 2027 and another 12-month pilot planned for the second half of 2027.
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Banks, fintechs, payment firms, and companies testing digital euro use cases are the immediate audience for this move, because the ECB is asking them to join work on AI agents, machine-to-machine transactions, and related payment tools. For them, the practical sign is that testing is being organized around 2027 rather than left abstract, with prototypes and workshops slated to start then.
Compared with before, the space for testing now includes automated transactions, micropayments, e-receipts, conditional payments, and multiparty transactions under digital euro experiments. What stays the same is that the material still points to a future pilot and experimentation phase, not a live rollout today. (per tokenpost.com)
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| 45 days ago | ECB to invest part of own funds in tokenised securities, with settlement via Pontes event | 1 actors in common · 3 news media |