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  • CSSF eRegister by eDesk: Prospectus Interface Joins the Fund Data API

    On 1 October 2026 the CSSF announced that eRegister by eDesk, the product it created to give financial sector professionals access to public information, now includes an interface for consulting prospectuses approved by the CSSF. The CSSF eRegister had gone live a month earlier with one feature: API access to the identification data of funds,…

  • Circular CSSF-CPDI 26/52: Covered Deposits Survey Due 16 November

    On 2 October 2026 the CSSF’s Conseil de protection des déposants et des investisseurs (CPDI), Luxembourg’s designated authority for deposit guarantees, published Circular CSSF-CPDI 26/52. It launches the quarterly survey of covered deposits held on 30 September 2026 and gives every member of the Fonds de garantie des dépôts Luxembourg (FGDL) until 16 November 2026…

  • Circular CSSF 24/856 Feedback Report: Where Notifications Fell Short

    On 5 October 2026 the CSSF published its first feedback report on Circular CSSF 24/856, the circular that has governed since 1 January 2025 how Luxembourg UCIs and their investment fund managers (IFMs) correct and notify NAV calculation errors, breaches of investment rules and a new class of “other errors”. The report works through the…

  • CSSF Tokenisation FAQ: Control Agents, Fund Registrars and DORA

    On 2 October 2026 the CSSF published version 1 of its FAQ on tokenisation, a nine-page document with six questions about Luxembourg investment funds that issue units or shares on a distributed ledger and about the control agents created by Blockchain Law IV. The CSSF tokenisation FAQ splits its answers evenly: three for fund managers…

  • Luxembourg Countercyclical Capital Buffer Q4 2026: Year-End COREP

    On 1 October 2026 the CSSF published Regulation No 26-03, which keeps the Luxembourg countercyclical capital buffer at 0.50% for the fourth quarter of 2026. Dated 30 September and printed in Memorial A No 482, the regulation entered into force on its publication day, so the rate for relevant credit exposures located in Luxembourg through…

  • CSSF Insider List Templates: Fields Dropped Under ITS 2026/1291

    The CSSF publishes two templates for insider lists under Article 18 of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR): the general “Template for insider lists and updating insider lists” and the template for issuers of financial instruments admitted to trading on SME growth markets. The legal format behind the CSSF insider list templates is set by Commission…

  • CSSF Incident Handling Guidance: NIS2 Rulebooks and the DORA Clock

    On 28 September 2026 the CSSF published press release 26/19 announcing operational guidance for incident handling: nine rulebooks written jointly by cybersecurity experts from the High Commission for National Protection (HCPN, acting as ANSSI and as GOVCERT.LU), CIRCL, the CSSF and the ILR. The practical question for Luxembourg DORA entities is whether the CSSF incident…

  • SOLV Reporting in Luxembourg: The CSSF’s COREP Own Funds Return

    SOLV reporting is the CSSF’s own funds return for Luxembourg banks. The CSSF handbook “Reporting requirements for credit institutions” (version 8.3 of 17 November 2025) splits it into two domains: SSOLV, own funds requirements (solvency ratio) on an individual basis, and CSOLV, the same information on a consolidated basis. Both rest on Article 430(1)(a) of…

  • Luxembourg Sanctions Risk Assessment: Screening Gaps the CSSF Flagged

    The Luxembourg sanctions risk assessment that the CSSF drew to supervised firms’ attention in a communiqué of 24 September 2026 is the country’s first vertical risk assessment (VRA) of targeted financial sanctions (TFS) linked to terrorist financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF). The Ministry of Finance led the exercise and released the report, titled “PF…

  • ESPREP-RES Reporting in Luxembourg: CSSF Real Estate Lending Data

    Circular CSSF 26/908 of 25 March 2026 changed how Luxembourg lenders file ESPREP-RES reporting, the semi-annual residential real estate lending indicators, and deleted the file-naming block behind this report’s internal code, ESPREP-ENNNN-YYYY-MM-RES. The underlying return under Circular CSSF 18/703 remains in force. The amended transmission section provides a dedicated eDesk approach and a JSON-based API…