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The CJEU has held that a payment service provider cannot refuse to immediately refund an unauthorised payment transaction on the ground that the payer enabled it through gross negl…
With the Council and Parliament positions settled and trilogues expected to open on 22 October 2026, SFDR 2.0 is taking shape: three product categories, a binding 70% threshold, ma…
AIFMD II gives private equity sponsors a clearer route to use Luxembourg AIFM capabilities beyond managed funds, provided that substance, governance and scope are addressed from th…
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With the MiCA transitional period over since 1 July 2026, Luxembourg's auth…
Two EU delegated regulations published on 21 September 2026 finalise the re…
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The CSSF, Luxembourg’s supervisory authority for the financial sector, has announced that Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS may no longer invest in loans
On 27 July, the Luxembourg parliament published a new bill of law n° 7637 (the “Bill of Law”) that will amend the following two laws:
On 27 July 2020, the government has introduced a draft bill n°7637 in Parliament (the “Draft Bill”), which – if adopted – will modernise the law …
Entry into force of the law creating a register of fiducies and trusts: new register for beneficial owners of fiduciary arrangements and express trust…
On 3 July 2020, the Luxembourg supervisory authority for the financial sector, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the “CSS…
In June 2020, the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) published a report which sets out the findings of the FATF on the 12-month review car…
The Act of 10 July 2020 ("the Act") transposes into Luxembourg law the last part of the fourth Anti-money Laundering Directive (2015/849) as amended b…
This is the 11th episode of our COVID-19 webcast series. In this new episode, Mark Shaw gives a quick run-down of where we are in terms of f…
On 13 July 2020, the law implementing a central register of beneficial owners of Luxembourg fiduciary arrangements (the “Law”) as required under Artic…
On 6 February 2020, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (“EIOPA”) has published its final guidelines (the “EIOPA Guidelines”) o…
The legal framework for accessory guarantees (cautionnements) and autonomous guarantees (garanties autonomes) was a source of legal uncertainty given …
On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg parliament approved the bill of law n°7216B transposing Article 31 of EU Directive 2015/849 on the prevention of the us…
On 1 July 2020 the Luxembourg Parliament adopted the much anticipated Bill of Law n°7216B (the “Law”) that repeals the existing law on the information…
Yesterday (13 July 2020), the law of 10 July 2020 regarding professional payment guarantees was published (the “Law”).
The law of 10 July 2020 on professional payment guarantees has just been published and will enter into force on 17 July 2020. It provides for the crea…
On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a new law relating to professional payment guarantees (the “Law”) or garantie professionnelle d…
On 1st July 2020, the CSSF released its Circular 20/743, thereby partially amending Circular letter 19/716. On the same day, the CSSF also enacte…
In recent years the European Union has paid increasing attention to sustainability in its policy- making particularly in the financial sector
On 2 July 2020, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the “CSSF”) published two important texts for third country firms provi…
On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg supervisory authority (the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier - CSSF) issued the circular n°20/743 (the Ci…
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