Risk Control Regulation: How European Issuers Are Approaching Digital Assets

At NextGen Nordics 2026 in Stockholm, Francesco Dallesandro, head of sales, cards and payments, Europe, FIS provided insights into stablecoin adoption and the digital euro. Dallesandro explained that European issuers are not currently looking at the digital euro as an an individual rail, but are instead thinking more holistically about a new ecosystem of CBDCs, tokenised assets and regulated stablecoins in coexistence. He suggested that this 'coexistence' is a better word than any sort of conve...