International Regulatory Updates
JUNE 30, 2015
The Malta Financial Services Authority believes in developing an innovative framework for financial services despite rapid regulatory changes, Prof Joe Bannister tells MaltaProfile.
Link to The Right Model - Interview with MFSA Chairman Prof. Joe V. Bannister
Link to Financial Services Review
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JUNE 30, 2015
Responding to this paper
ESMA invites comments on all matters in this paper and in particular on the specific questions summarised in Annex 1. Comments are most helpful if they:
respond to the question stated;
indicate the specific question to which the comment relates;
contain a cle ...
JUNE 30, 2015
Link to Opinion. ...
JUNE 26, 2015
The Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has appointed the following individuals to serve as chairs of its standing committees:
Lourdes Centeno, Vice Chair of the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), Spain, will chair the Review Panel;
Han ...
JUNE 25, 2015
Malta’s reputation as a hedge fund domicile was established with the island’s accession to the European Union in May 2004. Malta regularly
receives high rankings in benchmarking reports and the World Economic Forum ranks Malta above average for almost every metric in financial
market developme ...
JUNE 17, 2015
The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today a revised list of validation rules in its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting, highlighting those which have been deactivated either for incorrectness or for triggering IT problems. Competent Authorities throughout the EU ...
JUNE 17, 2015
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its updated Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on disclosure and supervisory reporting of leverage ratio for EU institutions. The ITS include changes to templates and instructions to update the leverage ratio disclosure and reporting framework ...
JUNE 17, 2015
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its 2014 Annual Report, which provides a detailed account of all the work the Authority achieved in the past year and anticipates the key areas of focus in the coming years.
Click here to access the EBA 2014 Annual Report. ...
JUNE 15, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today its strategy for 2016-2020. As ESMA is moving from its formative years to the next phase, a strategic review was conducted to clarify the priorities and activities of ESMA with its changing environment. This review also took in ...
JUNE 01, 2015
Quantitative easing (QE) may create favourable conditions for insurers and pension funds in the long run by stimulating economic growth;
In the short-term, however, QE puts an additional pressure on insurance and pensions business by further lowering the risk-free rate;
Profitability of insura ...
