• ECB selecting banks that want to take part in pilot phase

  • ECB setup costs to reach around 1.3 bln euros, Cipollone says

  • Banks to pocket fees, won’t have to pay system costs to ECB

  • Merchants will also have an incentive in terms of cap on fees

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    4 days ago

    As of January 2026, there were a total of 4,633 credit institutions operating in the European Union

    So that 6 billion is 1,3 million per bank spread over 4 years. So 323.764€ per year. That actually sounds unrealisticly cheap.