ECB’s Mersch attacks Facebook over ‘cartel-like’ libra structure
Senior ECB official accuses currency project of “treacherous promises”
A senior European Central Bank official has attacked US tech company Facebook’s proposed digital currency for being organised like a cartel and making “treacherous promises”.
ECB executive board member Yves Mersch used unusually strong language in his September 2 speech on libra, which Facebook is due to release in the first half of 2020.
He said libra would be released by “the very same people who had to explain themselves in front of legislators in the US and the European Union on the
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