Bitcoin Flat as the ECB and central banks around the world will meet the representatives of Libra by Investing.com

Investing.com – did not move Monday in Asia, as representatives of the European Central Bank (ECB) and 25 other central banks will meet with representatives of Libra later in the day.

Increased by 0.1% to 10.330,1 USD around 01:15 ET (05:15 GMT). rose 3.8% to $ 194.40, while remaining unchanged at 0.26220.

traded up 1.8% to $ 71,437.

The representatives of Libya will meet with the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), consisting of 28 member banks, including the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, later in the day.

Facebook (NASDAQ 🙂 revealed its intention to launch Libra, its own cryptocurrency, in 2020 earlier this year. The project has been cautiously welcomed by banks and has been criticized by global regulators.

Benoit Coeure, a senior ECB official, said the regulatory requirements for operating Libra in the European Union would be very high.

He added that the time was right for "intensifying our thinking on a digital currency of the central bank," according to Reuters, who said the ECB is currently considering setting up its own digital currency plans. Other reports suggest that Coeure could provide a report on digital coins to the G7 finance ministers in October.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has expressed his opposition to the development of Libra in Europe, saying that "our monetary sovereignty is at stake". He "urges European central banks to speed up work on possible solutions to it would discuss the potential of a supposed" EuroCoin "next month.