News Releases

In view of recent local developments relating to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and in addition to the measures which have been announced earlier in the week by the MFSA, the Authority is issuing further guidance in relation to its employees’ interactions with external stakeholders. Addition ...

Following yesterday’s successful large scale test of its remote working facilities, as part of its COVID-19 contingency and business continuity planning, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) continues to closely monitor developments in relation to the spread of COVID-19 to assess the impa ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) today conducted its operations with half its staff complement working off-site as a “dry-run” to test the level of preparedness of the Authority’s functions to ensure business continuity should circumstances warrant that, at any moment in time, the ...

The Minister for Finance the Hon. Edward Scicluna and the Parliamentary Secretary for Financial Services the Hon. Clayton Bartolo visited the MFSA’s offices earlier this afternoon. During the visit, the Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary were taken around the offices, led by the Authority ...

Legal professionals are kindly reminded that, by virtue of Legal Notice 144 of 2018 as amended by Legal Notice 137 of 2019 (the “Order”), the Malta Business Registry Agency, which was previously known as the Registry of Companies, was established as an agency with separate legal personality. As ...

Today the MFSA published a Feedback Statement following a Consultation Document on Security Token Offerings (‘STOs’). The main aim of the Consultation Document was to establish the MFSA’s position on the use of Distributed Ledger Technology (‘DLT’), within the context of the primary issui ...

Following a report in a section of the media referring to Binance as a “Malta-based cryptocurrency” company, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) reiterates that Binance is not authorised by the MFSA to operate in the crypto currency sphere and is therefore not subject to regulatory ove ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has today published a consumer study, entitled “Motor Insurance: Consumer Research on Attitudes and Behaviour.”  This study was one of the deliverables tied to the MFSA’s Conduct Supervision priorities set out in the Authority’s three-year Strat ...

Following the restructuring which took place early last year, the MFSA has been actively engaged in strengthening its organisational capacity by creating new operational and supervisory functions which include risk management, supervisory ICT and cybersecurity risk, financial crime compliance, data ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority has today launched a stakeholder consultation setting out several proposals for the promulgation of a comprehensive principles-based Corporate Governance Code which is applicable to all entities authorised by the MFSA and Listed Companies, which would then be s ...