24 April 2026

• European Card Payment Cooperation (ECPC), nexo standards and Berlin Group to work with ECB to implement digital euro
• Standards to allow European payment solutions to minimise costs, expand geographical reach and diversify use cases
• Adoption of the digital euro regulation by co-legislators to unlock potential and provide certainty for market actors’ future investments in payments

The European Central Bank (ECB) has signed agreements with three European standard‑setting organisations – ECPC, nexo standards and the Berlin Group – to reuse these existing open technical standards, accessible to all stakeholders, for processing digital euro online payments.

The standards include:

• CPACE standards, developed by ECPC, support contactless “tap‑to‑pay” payments using near‑field communication between a payment device and a payment terminal;
• nexo standards specifications connect merchants’ systems with the back-end systems of payment service providers and…