News Releases


MAY 06, 2011
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has published the Annual Report for 2010. In his forward statement to the report Authority Chairman, Professor Joe Bannister, remarks that 2010 was a year of steady progress for Malta’s financial services industry, with a regular flow of new licences b ...
MARCH 09, 2011
The MFSA (The Authority) wishes to notify that during these past weeks, it has been carrying out the necessary enquiries with MFSP Financial Management Ltd which had acted as intermediary for CECA Invest and taken steps to ensure that both the Authority as well as all Maltese persons who had transfe ...
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
The Education Consultative Council (ECC) of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has launched a new financial services careers’ website that is aimed to help young people plan a career in the financial services industry in Malta. The new website also contains useful hints to parents, care ...
NOVEMBER 04, 2010
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) announces that the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has accepted its application for accession to the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU) on co-operation and information exchange. The MFSA officially signed the MMoU o ...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
On 18 August 2010, the Malta Financial Services Authority issued a public statement where it informed the public that it was undertaking lines of enquiry in relation to the La Valette Multi Manager Property Fund - a sub fund of La Valette Funds Sicav plc, including issues raised in judicial protests ...
SEPTEMBER 09, 2010
Malta has moved into 11th position in financial market development according to the World Economic Forum’s Competitiveness Index 2010 2011. Key performance indicators for the financial services sector also confirm the sector’s standing as a leading innovator in the Maltese economy. This ranking ...
AUGUST 18, 2010
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has received enquiries regarding the judicial protests filed recently by investors of investment funds. The issues raised by these judicial protests are being examined by the MFSA, both from the consumers' perspective as well as from the supervisory aspe ...
JULY 23, 2010
Resources EU Banking Sector Stress Tests Results (English) EU Banking Sector Stress Tests Results (Maltese) Joint Decleration (English) Joint Decleration (Maltese) CEBS Press Release CEBS 2010 EU-wide stress testing exercise results CEBS Questions & Answers 2010 EU - wide st ...
APRIL 16, 2010
The MFSA’s annual report for 2009, published on 16th April 2010, records another year of growth for the country’s finance sector. Writing in the report, the MFSA’s chairman, Professor Joe Bannister, says, “Given the turmoil that followed the worldwide financial crisis, the performance of Mal ...
MARCH 29, 2010
The public is reminded that Legal Notice 340 of 2009 issued in terms of the Banking Act (Cap. 371) and published in the Government Gazette of the 17th November 2009 declared Easter Monday as a bank holiday. Accordingly, bank branches and offices will not be operating on 5th April 2010. ...