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The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has launched a public consultation on the national implementation of the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience ACT (DORA), ahead of it becoming fully applicable by 17 January 2025, following a two-year implementation period which started in January 2023. ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is today launching a new framework for Notified Professional Investor Funds (NPIFs). The framework provides for an additional fund structure in Malta that benefits from an appropriately streamlined onboarding process and complements other existing fun ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) recently concluded a series of workshops targeted at insurance companies, intermediaries, and investment services to unfold the transformative potential of the EU Retail Investment Strategy Package. The EU Retail Investment Strategy Package, adopted b ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) remains committed to an open, transparent and collaborative approach that involves stakeholders and ensures broad input and perspectives to inform its direction. With this in mind, the Authority has established the ‘MFSA Stakeholders Panel’ which bri ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) hosted a workshop on crisis preparedness in the banking industry. The workshop, which brought together key players from the banking sector, aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the Resolution Framework, a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of ba ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), through its Financial Supervisors Academy, successfully organised the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) conference on the 16 of November 2023 at the Hilton Hotel in St Julian’s, Malta. The conference, which saw the participation of over 500 p ...

The “Future of Banking Supervision” conference, organised by the MFSA’s Financial Supervisors Academy on November 8, brought together key figures from the local and EU banking industry including representatives from the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank. The confer ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has urged insurance undertakings to make their policy wordings clearer and easier to understand, in the interest of consumers, as well as in order to reduce issues such as coverage disputes and complaints. This was one of the findings which came out f ...

The Central Bank of the Republic of San Marino (CBSM) is pleased to announce that, on October 3, 2023, it successfully concluded and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA). The MoU establishes a framework of bilateral cooperation between the two ...

The latest volume of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA)’s publication, “The Nature and Art of Supervision”, offers a detailed account of the Authority’s progress in regulating virtual financial assets sector.  The publication offers insights into the licensing process, including ...