Small digital euro payments won't need laundering checks, says ECB official


But they come in the week that the EU is preparing to end the possibility of anonymous crypto payments. The European Parliament is due to vote Thursday on how to extend existing money laundering controls to crypto payments. An existing threshold of €1.000 ($1.100) below which payer details need not be recorded looks likely to be scrapped for virtual assets, as lawmakers say it's too easy to circumvent the rules by splitting large payments.