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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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On September 14th 2018, the Law of August 31st 2018 (hereafter the “Law”) was published in the Luxembourg Memorial A. The Law entered into f…
The Law of 10 August 2018 relating to the information to be obtained and held by fiduciaries transposes into national law the provisions und…
By the Law of 22 June 2018 , the Luxembourg legislator introduced renewable energy covered bonds through a modification of the relevant prov…
The Luxembourg private wealth management company (hereafter: SPF – société de gestion de patrimoine familial), governed by the Law of 11 May 2007, is …
On 10 August 2018 new provisions entered into force in national law to allow the Luxembourg tax authorities to have access to information on taxpayers…
On 23 August, the Luxembourg supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), issued Circular 18/698 relating t…
Dans nos deux précédents cahiers de MNKS consacrés aux conventions d’actionnaires[1], nous avons présenté brièvement les principales clauses conventio…
By way of preamble and as a reminder, a depositary of a Luxembourg fund may currently fall under either (1) the regime of the UCITS Directive&nbs…
On 23 August 2018, CSSF released its new Circular 18/698 on the authorisation and organisation of Luxembourg investment fund managers (the C…
We would like to draw your attention to the entry into force, on 21 July of this year, of Regulation (EU) 2017/1131 of the European Parliament and of …
The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (“CSSF”) has issued today circular 18/698 concerning (i) the approval process and organisation of …
The law of 6 June 2018 on transparency of securities nancing transactions (“SFTs”), implementing the European regulation 2015/2365 on transparency of …
The EU Commission, following the publication of its Sustainable Finance Action Plan in March 2018, published on May 24th 2018 the following legislativ…
At the end of September 2017, the European Commission published its 283-page Review of the European Supervisory Authorities1 (ESAs). It is concer…
Bill of law 7216A - New requirements for fiduciary arrangements: setting up by their fiduciary agent of an internal file on their beneficial owners
On May 29th 2018, the European Commission published two draft delegated regulations which contain proposals to amend certain rules relating to the saf…
In our previous « MNKS booklet » dedicated to shareholders’ agreements[1], we briefly described the main clauses restricting the transferabi…
On June 29th 2018, the Chamber of Deputies of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg issued a draft law 7328 on prospectuses (the “Draft Law”) for the purposes…
On March 8th 2018, the European Commission released a new proposalfor a European Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers (“CSP”) for Bus…
The new directive (Directive EU 2018/843) on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terro…
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