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ESMA promotes clarity in claims on impact and transition through two additional thematic notes

On 12 October 2026 ESMA published two new thematic notes with do’s and don’ts for impact claims and climate transition claims in funds, bonds and benchmarks, to reduce greenwashing…

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Increase in Luxembourg minimum social wage from 1 January 2027

Bill of law 8837 raises the Luxembourg minimum social wage by 3.8% from 1 January 2027, to €2,876.60 gross per month for non-qualified and €3,451.92 for qualified employees.

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Reverse Solicitation: the exception that regulators expect to remain exceptional

Reverse solicitation can be a legitimate route for an AIF investment, but the CSSF treats it as a narrow, fact-specific exception. The 18-month pre-marketing rule, evidence and gov…

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AIF distribution agreements: making oversight work in practi…

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Applicability of collective labour agreements in Luxembourg

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Law clarifying and confirming the non-applicability of the financial assistance

Law clarifying and confirming the non-applicability of the financial assistance prohibition set out in the Luxembourg Companies Act to private limited…

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Clarification of the financial assistance rules applicable to Luxembourg sociétés à responsabilité limitée

On 14 July 2021, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a long-awaited amendment to the law of 10 August 1915 on commercial companies, as amended (the “LSC…

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Changes to the CSSF’s fund authorisation process

The CSSF continues to optimise its fund authorisation process. To this purpose, it recently published information on certain procedural changes and ne…

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Adoption of the law implementing a new prudential regime for investment firms

Investment firms offer a variety of services and vary by their size, business model, risk profile and complexity. Considering that their activities an…

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Questions and answers clarifying the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation

On 26 July 2021, the EU Commission published a Q&A on the SFDR  

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Taxation of the Digital economy: What’s in the pipeline?

At the end of 2020, the OECD aimed at addressing and coming to a successful conclusion on tax challenges arising from globalisation and the digitalisa…

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New rules proposed to tackle financial crime in the EU: is the European game now over for money launderers?

The European Commission (“Commission”) has been looking to strengthen European anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (“AML/CTF”) enfor…

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Cross-border distribution of investment funds – the Luxembourg law of 21 July 2021

The law of 21 July 2021 implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1160 with regard to cross-border distribution of collective investment undertakings (the “CBD…

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Follow-up: New rules on pre-marketing and marketing of AIF have been transposed in Luxembourg

As a reminder, Regulation (EU) 2019/1156 (the “Regulation”) and Directive (EU) 2019/1160 (the “Directive” and together the “Cross-Border Marketing and…

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The new EU AML-CFT package

This package aims to further enhance the existing EU AML-CFT framework by taking into account new and emerging challenges linked to technological inno…

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Cross-border distribution of investment funds – the Luxembourg law of 21 July 2021

The law of 21 July 2021 implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1160 with regard to cross-border distribution of collective investment undertakings (the “CBD…

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Protection of the euro against counterfeiting: new requirements applicable to relevant institutions

The Luxembourg legislator has adopted the bill of law 7464[1] amending i.a. the amended laws of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector an…

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Housing Pact" preemption rights - jurisprudence developments

The Law of 22 October 2008 on the so-called "Housing Pact", as amended by the Law of 3 March 2017 (the so-called "Omnibus Law"), gives, under certain …

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ESG New European Commission package of measures

On the 21 April 2021, the European Commission released a package of measures to help improve the flow of money towards sustainable activities acr…

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Loan origination - CSSF guidance on private lending

On 15 June 2021, the Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Authority (the CSSF) updated its FAQs on the statuses of the Professionals of the Fi…

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Luxembourg adopts a new law on the transport of cash entering or leaving the country

On 30 June 2021, the Luxembourg legislator adopted bill of law 7677 (the “Bill of Law”) (i) regarding the organisation of the control of transport of …

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New law reforms Luxembourg civil and commercial legal proceedings

The new law of 15 July 2021 reforming aspects of civil and commercial legal procedure was published this week.   

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Draft revised vertical regulation and guidelines

The European Commission takes a hard line against online platforms, dual distribution and MFNs

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Benchmark Regulation | Update to ESMA’S Q&A

On 28 May 2021, ESMA published an updated version of the Questions & Answers (hereinafter the “Q&A”) on the implementation of the&nb…

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Modernisation of the authorisation regime for Luxembourg supervised entities

On 14 July 2021, the Luxembourg legislator has adopted, following the first vote and with a waiver for the second vote, the bill of law 7761 amending …

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