On 15 July 2026 the CSSF published its AIFM Reporting Dashboard covering the position as at 31 December 2025. The document aggregates the Annex IV returns that authorised and registered AIFMs file, and it is the closest thing the Luxembourg alternative fund sector has to a public benchmark. The CSSF AIFM reporting dashboard adds no…
On 14 July 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) confirmed it will take part in the European Central Bank’s digital euro pilot, joining the ECB and 18 other Eurosystem national central banks in a controlled test of a beta version of the digital euro. The same day the ECB named the 36 payment service…
On 15 July 2026 the CSSF updated the two forms a Luxembourg fund manager reaches for when it closes a branch it had opened in another Member State: the CSSF branch termination annex under Article 33 of Directive 2011/61/EU (AIFMD), and its counterpart under Article 17 of Directive 2009/65/EC (the UCITS Directive). Both moved to…
On 15 July 2026 the Wolfsberg Group published its Guidance on the Provision of Banking Services to non-bank Payment Service Providers, and it lands on a problem most financial crime teams already know by feel: the bank holds the account, but it is several parties removed from the person actually sending the money. The new…
On 15 July 2026 the SRB Chair told the European Parliament’s ECON Committee that the Single Resolution Board is simplifying resolution planning wherever its mandate allows, and drew a firm line around what simplification will and will not touch. For teams that run SRB resolution planning, the speech matters as a direction of travel: the…
On 14 July 2026 the Financial Conduct Authority opened three linked consultations that together make up its asset management reform package, a set of proposals the regulator estimates would save UK asset managers around £128m a year. The three papers cover fund reporting, the alternative investment fund manager regime, and the remuneration rules that apply…
On 10 July 2026 ESMA announced thirteen Q&A repository items across the EU ESG Ratings Regulation, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and MiFIR secondary markets. All thirteen items carry published answers. The individual records also show that several answers pre-date 10 July 2026. None of the thirteen published answers creates a new reporting template or…
On 13 July 2026 the CSSF published five standardised XLSX notification forms on its Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID II/MiFIR) page, covering algorithmic trading, direct electronic access, systematic internaliser status, designated publishing entity status and commodity derivatives. For algorithmic-trading and DEA notifications, the workbook replaces the Q&A-table format referenced in the CSSF’s communication of 26…
The CSSF workbook titled Notification of a commodity derivative is a contract-identification form. Its fields cover the submission and admission dates, commodity classification, contract name, unit and lot conversion, trading-venue identifiers, product code, ISIN, whether economically equivalent OTC contracts exist and the total number of securities issued. It does not collect position-holder or open-interest data…
On 13 July 2026 the Council of the European Union added new names to two of its Russia restrictive-measures regimes. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1708 amended the human-rights measures set out in Regulation (EU) 2024/1485, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1710 amended the destabilising-activities measures in Regulation (EU) 2024/2642. Both were published in the Official…