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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 20 October 2017, the European Securities and Markets Authority (the “ESMA”) updated its Questions and Answers Prospectuses document (27th version) …
According to the Directive 2014/65/EU of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments (“MiFID II”), Member States must transpose the directive in n…
Regulation (EU) 2017/1991 amending regulations (EU) No 345/2013 on European Venture Capital Funds (EuVECAs) and (EU) No 346/2013 on European Social En…
With over 1,000 securitisation vehicles (SVs) and thousands of related compartments, the Luxembourg securitisation market enjoys a continuous and stea…
On 10 October 2017, draft bill n°7195 transposing PSD2 into national law was submitted to the Luxembourg Parliament. PSD21 entered into force on…
A year ago, the Luxembourg fund industry welcomed the Reserved Alternative Investment Fund (RAIF). The RAIF is governed by the law of 23 July 2016 (th…
On 20 May 2015, the European Commission published regulation (EU) 2015/848 on insolvency proceedings (recast) ("Regulation 2015/848") . This regulatio…
Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 (the “4th AML Directive”) had to be implemented in the Membe…
On October 10th 2017, the Council of State commented the draft Grand Ducal Regulation aimed at consolidating the Luxembourg law of August 10th&nb…
Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of June 8th 2016 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measure the perfo…
Le directeur des contributions a publié une circulaire L.G. - A n° 63 en date du 15 septembre 2017 (ci-après la « Circulaire ») portant sur les obliga…
There has been a rise in migration of offshore companies into Luxembourg over the past few years. A company which transfers its registered office alon…
On 30 May 2017, the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) issued its second version of the Q&A on the Key Investor Documents (KIDs) f…
The pieces of the puzzle are finally falling into place. The long- awaited level 3 and 4 measures have been published earlier this week, half a year b…
The Luxembourg supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), issued on 6 July 2017 the fourth version of its freq…
Amongst the numerous topics covered by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ES…
Alongside the adoption of the Directive 2011/61/UE on Alternative Investment Fund Manager (“AIFM”), European legislators adopted Regulation (EU) no 34…
Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered …
On 26 June 2017 the deadline has passed for the implementation of the European directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the …
On 7 June 2017, the official ceremony for the signing of the multilateral instrument (“MLI”) took place bringing to a close a process initiated last y…
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