Stablecoins claim to stabilise the value of major currencies in the volatile crypto-asset market. This paper describes the often complex functioning of different types of stablecoins and proposes a taxonomy of stablecoin initiatives. To this end it relies on a novel framework for their classific...
The Interchange Fee Regulation is intended to help create a single market for card payments across the EU. Card payments are particularly important for cross-border and internet payments and so competitive card payments are essential for the development of the internal market. The Regulation wil...