ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the Governor of the Bank of France said on Tuesday that central banks in the euro area will develop wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) plans in the next few weeks to innovate the way financial institutions settle securities and foreign exchange transactions.

François Villeroy de Galhau said at a conference that "the Eurosystem has begun to explore new technologies for central bank currency settlement, including the issuance of the first tokenized CBDC." Eligibility criteria and a call for expressions of interest will be announced in the coming weeks, and the experiment will Launching next year, it will include live trading trials. He added that the central bank will explore "alternative protocols and blockchains" as well as its own proprietary Distributed Ledger Securities Settlement System (DL3S).