See for example Central bank digital currencies: a monetary anchor for digital innovation, speech by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid, 5 November 2021. 4. Focus groups suggested that people see the ability to “pay anywhere” as the most important feature of a new digital payment instrument.
This emerged in all countries and age groups. See Kantar Public (2022), Study on New Digital Payment Methods, March; and Kantar Public (2023), Study on Digital Wallet Features, April. 5. Panetta, F. (2023), “The digital euro: our money wherever, whenever we need it”, introductory statement at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament, Brussels, 23 January. 6.