By Isaac • May 24, 2026 11:00 pm •
The European Central Bank delivered a blunt warning to EU finance ministers on May 22: loosening the rules around euro-denominated stablecoins could shrink bank lending and make it harder for Frankfurt to control interest rates across the eurozone.
The pushback was aimed squarely at a proposal from Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank, that called for easing liquidity requirements on stablecoin issuers and potentially granting them access to ECB funding.
ECB warns EU finance ministers that easing euro stablecoin rules would weaken banks: Reuters https://t.co/PAE27MrbsH
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Reuters via Investing.com reported the warning and noted that several central bankers openly questioned the idea of turning the ECB into a lender of
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