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APRIL 16, 2020
The European Central Bank (ECB) today announced a temporary reduction in capital requirements for market risk, by allowing banks to adjust the supervisory component of these requirements.
With this decision, the ECB is responding to the extraordinary levels of volatility recorded in financial mar ...
APRIL 07, 2020
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is continuously engaging with the Malta Stock Exchange and is closely monitoring the impact of the recent outbreak of COVID-19 on the local Regulated Market.
Overall the Malta Stock Exchange, as the local Regulated Market, continues to operate in an ...
MARCH 21, 2020
Taking into account the significant effects of the COVID-19 situation on the financial services sector, the MFSA considers it necessary and proportionate to apply flexibility in the applicable deadlines for the submission of regulatory reporting due over the next months. To this end, the Authority h ...
MARCH 09, 2020
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 ...
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
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 ...
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
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 ...
OCTOBER 01, 2019
Over the past two days, Mr Andrea Enria was in Malta for his first visit as the new Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) at the European Central Bank. This visit forms part of an annual programme of visits organised by the European Central Bank to eurozone-based ...
SEPTEMBER 06, 2019
The MFSA has today published its three-year Strategic Plan highlighting its supervisory priorities and the key priority areas which will be addressed in order to achieve its ambitious Vision by 2021. This Plan has been developed in the context of challenges faced by the local and international finan ...
AUGUST 20, 2019
As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance consumer protection, the MFSA has updated the Conduct of Business Rulebook to implement important changes essentially restricting the marketing, distribution or sale of Contracts for Differences (CFDs) to retail investors. This update follows an extensive co ...
JULY 10, 2019
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has today published its Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 31 December 2018. Apart from providing an overview of the activities and work carried out by the MFSA, together with details about the industry’s performance last year, ...
