{"title":"The Euro @20: Lessons for the Next Generation of Virtual Currencies","authors":"Y. Chiu","doi":"10.54648/eulr2022002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The euro is for many reasons a remarkable legal tender. Even though formally introduced only in 1999, it soon became the second most important currency after the US Dollar in the international monetary system. The 20th anniversary of the euro offers an ideal occasion to reflect on decisive factors underlying its successes and failures. Employing a combined approach that links aspired reforms of the Economic and Monetary Union with novel topics arising from financial technology, this article derives important lessons for the next generation of virtual currencies and furthermore proposes a set of guiding principles for modern regulation and supervision. As a result, the study contributes to safeguarding the financial order in a global and dynamic environment.\nEU law, euro, virtual currency, crypto-asset, digital currency, legal tender, money, payment system, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), European Central Bank (ECB), regulation and supervision, international standards, financial crisis, risk management, financial technology (fintech), Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)","PeriodicalId":53431,"journal":{"name":"European Business Law Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Business Law Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54648/eulr2022002","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The euro is for many reasons a remarkable legal tender. Even though formally introduced only in 1999, it soon became the second most important currency after the US Dollar in the international monetary system. The 20th anniversary of the euro offers an ideal occasion to reflect on decisive factors underlying its successes and failures. Employing a combined approach that links aspired reforms of the Economic and Monetary Union with novel topics arising from financial technology, this article derives important lessons for the next generation of virtual currencies and furthermore proposes a set of guiding principles for modern regulation and supervision. As a result, the study contributes to safeguarding the financial order in a global and dynamic environment.
EU law, euro, virtual currency, crypto-asset, digital currency, legal tender, money, payment system, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), European Central Bank (ECB), regulation and supervision, international standards, financial crisis, risk management, financial technology (fintech), Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
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The mission of the European Business Law Review is to provide a forum for analysis and discussion of business law, including European Union law and the laws of the Member States and other European countries, as well as legal frameworks and issues in international and comparative contexts. The Review moves freely over the boundaries that divide the law, and covers business law, broadly defined, in public or private law, domestic, European or international law. Our topics of interest include commercial, financial, corporate, private and regulatory laws with a broadly business dimension. The Review offers current, authoritative scholarship on a wide range of issues and developments, featuring contributors providing an international as well as a European perspective. The Review is an invaluable source of current scholarship, information, practical analysis, and expert guidance for all practising lawyers, advisers, and scholars dealing with European business law on a regular basis. The Review has over 25 years established the highest scholarly standards. It distinguishes itself as open-minded, embracing interests that appeal to the scholarly, practitioner and policy-making spheres. It practices strict routines of peer review. The Review imposes no word limit on submissions, subject to the appropriateness of the word length to the subject under discussion.
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