International Regulatory Updates

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published today the MiFID II/MiFIR transitional transparency calculations (TTC) for equity and bond instruments. Today’s publication means that TTC for all asset classes, applicable from 3 January 2018, are now available to market participants, ...

The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) published today its draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying how credit and financial institutions should manage money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks at group level where the ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) welcomes the agreement reached on the finalisation of the Basel III framework by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), which concludes the global post-crisis prudential reforms. ‘Strong international standards are an essential common yardstick that ...

The ECB oversees all significant and less significant banks in the participating countries through direct and indirect supervision. Click here to access the full document. ...

What’s Inside This Issue: Discussion Paper on Initial Coin Offerings, Virtual Currencies and related Service Providers Malta – Best EU domicile for Captive Insurance MFSA hosts MONEYVAL training programme Creditreform Rating has affirmed the long-term sovereign rating for Malta at ...

Major issues covered were: Consequences of the ESA (European Supervisory Authorities) review for the asset management industry Changes to Malta's Notified AIF regime Why Malta kept its Professional Investor Fund (PIF) regime when introducing AIMD - benefits for fund managers and investor ...

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The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its tenth report on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector. The report is accompanied by the 2017 EU-wide transparency exercise, which provides key data in a comparable and accessible format for 132 banks across the EU. The data shows ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its tenth report on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector. The report is accompanied by the 2017 EU-wide transparency exercise, which provides key data in a comparable and accessible format for 132 banks across the EU. The data shows ...

Banks in the euro area are working intensively to implement a new accounting standard that was introduced in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Under the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9, which enters into force on 1 January 2018, financial institutions must recognise loan los ...