On 13 July 2026 the CSSF published a new version of its CSSF MiFID II/MiFIR FAQ, the question-and-answer document that sets out how the regulator expects Luxembourg investment firms and credit institutions to run transaction reporting, transparency and commodity-derivative obligations in practice. Several answers carry a fresh 13 July 2026 stamp, and four are new…
On 6 July 2026 the CSSF published a single spreadsheet on its website, the active account notification form under Article 7a(1) of EMIR. It carries more weight than its size suggests. This EMIR active account notification is the declaration a Luxembourg financial or non-financial counterparty makes to say whether it has been pulled inside the…
On 10 July 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority published the first set of market capitalisation figures and ratios for EU Member States under the FASTER Directive, Council Directive (EU) 2025/50. The figures cover reference years 2024 and 2025, and they start a multi-year clock that will decide which national markets have to build…
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…