Digital Euro Podcast

Episode 78: This Month in Digital Money - November 2025

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from November 202...

Episode 77: This Month in Digital Money - October 2025

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from October 2025...

Episode 76: This Month in Digital Money - September 2025

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie, Conrad and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from Sept...

Future Financial Markets Infrastructure – A Conversation with KPMG Germany

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jens Siebert, Partner at KPMG Germany, joins the DEA podcast to discuss the future of financial market infrastructures. Jens leads KPMG’s DLT practi...

Episode 75: This Month in Digital Money - August 2025

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie and Conrad from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from August 2025....

Episode 74: This Month in Digital Money - July 2025

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie, Conrad and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from July...

Episode 73: This Month in Digital Money - June 2025

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie, Conrad and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from June...

Episode 72: This Month in Digital Money - May 2025

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from May 2025. Ga...

Episode 71: This Month in Digital Money - April 2025

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie, Conrad, and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from Apr...

Bringing Traditional Finance On-Chain with Stablecoins — A Conversation with Eurodollar

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kam Dylan (Deputy CEO) and Allan Pedersen (CEO) from Eurodollar join the podcast to talk about their Dollar-pegged stablecoin (USDE) and associated yi...

Episode 70: This Month in Digital Money - March 2025

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie, Conrad, and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from Mar...

Episode 69: This Month in Digital Money - February 2025

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anne-Sophie, Conrad, and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an in-depth analysis of the key developments in digital currencies from Feb...

Episode 68: This Month In Digital Money - January 2025

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Conrad, Tamara and Anne-Sophie from the Digital Euro Association for an insightful review of the January 2025 developments in the world of digita...

Exploring Open Source in CBDC Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Central Banks

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode of The Digital Euro Podcast, we delve into the transformative potential of open-source software (OSS) in shaping Central Bank ...

Episode 66: This Month In Digital Money - November 2024

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Conrad and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an insightful review of the November 2024 developments in the world of digital currencies...

Episode 65: This Month In Digital Money - October 2024

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Conrad and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association for an insightful discussion on the October 2024 developments in the world of digital currenc...

Episode 64: This Month In Digital Money - September 2024

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Conrad, Tamara, and Kaan from the Digital Euro Association for an insightful discussion on the latest developments in the world of digital curren...

Episode 63: This Month In Digital Money - August 2024

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Conrad, Tamara, and Kaan from the Digital Euro Association as they discuss the latest news in digital money including Wyoming's plans for a state...

Episode 62: This Month in Digital Money - July 2024

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Conrad and Tamara from the Digital Euro Association as they discuss the latest developments in digital money, including SocGen Forge's e-money li...

Episode 61 : MiCAR's Influence on Stablecoins: Industry Insights and Implications

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the DEA private digital euro working group chairs dive into their newly published paper on MiCAR's influence on stablecoins. They exp...

Episode 60: Democracy Issues of the Digitized Financial Sector

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Caroline Marburger, a specialist in science communication for the project “Democracy Issues of the Digitalized Fin...

Episode 59: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest November 2023

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah recaps the news in the digital money space in November 2023.

Episode 58: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest October 2023

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah and Conrad recap the news in the digital money space in October 2023.

Episode 57: The Digital Euro Legislative Proposal: Key Take Aways & Commentary

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the guests discuss the key takeaways and intricacies of the legislative proposal for the digital euro (i.e., CBDC).

Episode 56: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest September 2023

30 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 55: CBDCs & Privacy: Considerations for an International Landscape

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the guests discuss how CBDCs can guard fundamental human rights in domestic and international settings.

Episode 54: Cryptobanknotes & CBDC Cash from A to Z

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Andrei Lipkin gives an introduction to crypto banknotes and CBDC Cash and how they compare to banknotes as we know them today.

Episode 53: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest August 2023

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 52: Sand Dollar Chief Architect Shares Insights Into Bahama's CBDC

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the Chief Architect of the Sand Dollar (NZIA) shares his view of Bahama's CBDC, its inception through the tender process, and the gen...

Episode 51: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest July 2023

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah recaps the news in the digital money space in July 2023.

Episode 50: Banking on Tokens by the DEA Digital Euro Working Group

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the DEA working group chairs discuss the content of their newly published paper on tokenized commercial bank deposits, touching on to...

Episode 49: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest June 2023

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah recaps the news in the digital money space in June 2023.

Episode 48: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest May 2023

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah and Conrad recap the news in the digital money space in May 2023.

Episode 47: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest April 2023

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah and Conrad recap the news in the digital money space in April 2023.

Episode 46: The Future of Machine Money

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Digital Euro Podcast, we explore the potential of stablecoins in the European machine-to-machine (M2M) economy.

Episode 45: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest February 2023

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah, Neslihan and Conrad recap the news in the digital money space in February 2023.

Episode 44: How to Pay in the Machine Economy of the Future?

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Richard Turrin, David Tercero-Lucas, Ricky Lamberty and Jakob Bouchetob are discussing machine-to-machine payment schemes and their r...

Episode 43: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest January 2023

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah and Conrad recap the news in the digital money space in January 2023.

Episode 42: Privacy and CBCDs by the DEA Public Digital Euro Working Group

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the DEA working group members discuss the content of their newly published paper on CBDC and privacy, touching on topics such as reas...

Episode 41: Digital Money Recap 2022

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the executive directors at the DEA recap the developments in the year 2022 in regards to general trends, regulation, stablecoins, CBC...

Episode 40: The Optimal Design of a CBDC

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, industry experts discuss the calibration of an optimally designed retail CBDC. They discuss the challenges of this day and age, such ...

Episode 39: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest November 2022

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah and Neslihan recap the news in the digital money space in November 2022.

Episode 38: Updates on Stablecoin Regulation with Circle

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Caroline Hill and Teana Baker-Taylor from Circle provide us with the current regulation and policy developments such as the Federal G...

Episode 37: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest October 2022

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Sarah, Conrad, Atakan and Neslihan recap the news in the stablecoin and CBDC space in October 2022.

Episode 36: Stablecoins – Enabler for Borderless Work?

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, various aspects of stablecoin usage including their economic and societal effects on the global labor market are discussed with first...

Episode 35: The CBDC Manifesto Explained

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jamiel Sheikh from the CBDC Think Tank and Tamara Schmidt from the DEA give context to the CBDC manifesto, released on September 12, 2022.

Episode 34: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest September 2022

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this monthly news digest, Conrad and Sarah recap the news in the stablecoin and CBDC space in September 2022.

Episode 33: Recommendations for a euro stablecoin: Private Digital Euro Working Group

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the members of the Private Digital Euro Working Groups review the various design choices and features of stablecoins, how stablecoins...

Episode 32: Paradigm Shift in Liquidity Visibility of Banks?

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Marcus Treacher answers the biggest questions around interbank settlements, the role of liquidity visibility in the digital age and t...

Episode 31: Ahead of the Digital Euro: Public Digital Euro Working Group Recommendations

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the members of the Public Digital Euro Working Groups present their recommendations for a digital euro compartmentalized by design di...

Episode 30: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest August 2022

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What are the conclusions of the newest ECB working paper? How is USDT developing after the Tornado Cash debacle? These and other questions will be add...

Episode 29: Circle's Euro Stablecoin EUROC – The First Big Euro Stablecoin?

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Digital Euro Podcast, Circle answers the biggest questions around its newly launched euro-denominated stablecoin EUROC and expl...

Episode 28: This Month in Digital Money – News Digest July 2022

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Which functions does the Central African Republic's official digital currency allow? Which stablecoin did Tether launch this month? What are inflation...

Episode 27: Fungibility & Interoperability in the Digital Money Ecosystem

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Digital Euro Podcast in collaboration with the Digital Pound Foundation, our panelists explore the meaning of fungibility and i...

Episode 26: Crypto vs. CBDC Bubble: Irreconcilable Perspectives?

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Digital Euro Podcast, Sarah Palurovic (Executive Director of the DEA) takes a look at the perspectives of crypto and CBDC propo...

Episode 25: Digital Money in Times of Crisis

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The recent Ukraine-Russia war has raised multiple significant questions about the use of digital money. First, with the bank-run on Russian banks foll...

Episode 24: Private sector products and services for public sector CBDCs

04 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DEA Podcast, Sarah Palurovic interviews Glenn Kim, the managing director of strategic business development at Fluency with vast...

Episode 23: Fungibility and Interoperability of CBDC

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Valentin Seehausen talks with Jannah Patchay about the fungibility and interoperability of CBDC. Jannah works for the Digital Pound...

Episode 22: Stablecoins, Synthetic CBDC and the History of Cryptocurrencies

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Valentin Seehausen talks with Franklin Noll about Stablecoins, Synthetic CBDC, and the general history of cryptocurrencies. Noll Hist...

Episode 21: Digital Currencies in Asia

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Central banks around the world have stepped in and intensified their efforts to conceptualize and design their own digital currencies, i.e., central b...

Episode 20: CBDC, Synthetic CBDC and Stablecoins

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DEA Podcast, Manuel Klein interviews Miguel Fernandez Ordoñez, the former president of the Spanish central bank. They discuss ...

Episode 19: Role of Commercial Banks in CBDC implementation

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Digital Euro Podcast, DEA Executive Director Conrad Kraft sits down with Dr. Cyrus de la Rubia to discuss the role of commercia...

Episode 18: Ripples Engagement in CBDCs

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast episode of the Digital Euro Podcast, James Wallis, VP for Central Bank Engagements and Antony Welfare, European CBDC lead at Ripple, t...

Episode 17: The Future of Payments in the Euro Area

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin rose from the ashes of the global financial crisis of 2007-08 as the first cryptocurrency to attract global attention. With the rise of peer-t...

Episode 16: CBDC Infrastructure Blockchain

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DEA Podcast, DEA Board Member Valentin Seehausen discussed with Cizar Brahim, Chief Strategy Officer at Sovereign Wallet, the t...

Episode 15: Digital Euro and Digital Identities

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DEA Podcast, DEA Chairman Jonas Gross discussed with Sven Marsing, Head of Project & Service Management at the Bundesdruckerei,...

Episode 14: Digital Assets and the Digital Euro

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Digitization of financial assets promises tremendous benefits to the capital markets, such as executing fast, efficient, and secure transactions via d...

Episode 13: 2021 in Review

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this final episode of the DEA Podcast for 2021, DEA Board Chairman Jonas Gross together with Conrad Kraft (Executive Director of the DEA) and Manue...

Episode 12: Agent-Based Simulation of CBDC

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast episode, Valentin Seehausen, COO of the DEA, interviews Dr. Kimmo Soramäki from FNA. FNA builds models that are based on agent-based ...

Episode 11: Celo Stablecoin and CBDC projects

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast episode of the Future of Money Podcast by the Digital Euro Association focusses on Stablecoins. DEA founding member Manuel Klein talks wi...

Episode 10: The regulated Internet of Value

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Tony McLaughlin outlines a network on which different forms of money that we already know today can be transferred as tokens issued o...

Episode 9: Will central bank digital currencies enable anonymous payments?

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Most of the central banks around the world consider issuing a CBDC mainly as a consequence of the declining use of cash as a means of payment and to p...

Episode 8: ABI's Spunta Project

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Digital payment solutions constitute an important strategic building block in Europe’s quest for digital competitiveness and strategic autonomy. Var...

Episode 7: Digital Currencies beyond Borders

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

oday, cross-border payment systems are far from being frictionless and efficient. According to data by the World Bank, for cross-border payments, on a...

Episode 6: Stablecoins: Hype or Gamechanger?

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Digital Euro Association (DEA) webinar series “private sector and the digital euro” will continue with a webinar on stablecoins. As of the end...

Episode 5: Should the ECB issue a Digital Euro?

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this Episode, we focus on the digital euro project and address the following questions: Do we need a digital Euro? If yes, why? What are the use c...

Episode 4: Why do we need a digital euro, who will create it and when will it exist?

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a four-part podcast series, Alexander Bechtel and Manuel Klein explain how the euro can be "digitized", which different forms the digital euro can ...

Episode 3: Private Digital Euro

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a four-part podcast series, Alexander Bechtel and Manuel Klein explain how the euro can be "digitized", which different forms the digital euro can ...

Episode 2: Public Sector Digital Euro (CBDC)

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a four-part podcast series, Alexander Bechtel and Manuel Klein explain how the euro can be "digitized", which different forms the digital euro can ...

Episode 1: Digital vs digitized money: What is the euro and in which forms does it exist?

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a four-part podcast series, Alexander Bechtel and Manuel Klein explain how the euro can be "digitized", which different forms the digital euro can ...

Digital Euro Podcast

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We introduce our Podcast on the programmable, digital Euro established by the Digital Euro Association.