International Regulatory Updates
JULY 11, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published translations of its Guidelines on cross-selling practices.
The purpose of these Guidelines is to ensure a common, uniform and consistent application of these definitions. ...
JULY 11, 2016
The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a benchmarking analysis of diversity practices at EU level showing that only a limited number of institutions have already adopted a diversity policy. In particular, the report highlights that the actual level of diversity in the composition of the managem ...
JULY 11, 2016
Link to Article by Dr Isabelle Agius - Click here.
Link to GFM Special Report 2016 - Click here. ...
JULY 08, 2016
Final release of the XBRL Tool for Undertakings
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) plans to release an updated Tool for Undertakings (T4U) related to XBRL reporting under Solvency II in October 2016.
The aim of this final update is to support the first c ...
JULY 07, 2016
In this section, you will find news, press releases and speeches published by the EBA as well as a calendar of events including the EBA's major activities and key dates
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JULY 06, 2016
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JULY 04, 2016
The Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) is a significant milestone to promote consumer protection in Europe regarding the distribution of insurance products.
Insurance products should meet the needs of consumers.
Third party payments such as commissions should not have a detrimental impact ...
JULY 01, 2016
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today additional information on how the results of the EU-wide stress test will inform the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). The focus of today's update is to explain how additional "capital guidance" can be used as a tool to address the ...
JUNE 30, 2016
What’s Inside:
Notified AIFs – Latest Developments
MFSA: The wider picture
Opalesque Malta Roundtable 2016 ...
JUNE 23, 2016
Malta as a funds and finance centre is on a healthy growth path. In 2015, 112 new funds were registered and two new custodians and 22
new investment managers were licensed. The insurance gross premium was up 33.6% year on year and pension assets were up 66% year
on year, with now 38 retirement sch ...
