On 21 August 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg published its Financial Stability Review 2026, the central bank’s annual read on the systemic risks running through the Grand Duchy’s banks, insurers and investment funds. The BCL Financial Stability Review 2026 was closed editorially on 12 June 2026, and the most recent figures in it are…
On 3 August 2026 the CSSF published a dedicated material-operations webpage explaining the prior-notification and assessment framework for Luxembourg credit institutions and in-scope financial holding companies and mixed financial holding companies. The page follows the Law of 5 May 2026, which amended the Law of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector to transpose CRD…
From 31 July 2026, a Luxembourg UCITS management company or authorised AIFM that notifies a cross-border management activity has to use a new set of forms. On 30 July 2026 the CSSF published updated notification-letter templates and confirmed that the earlier versions stop being valid the next day. The same cut-off applies to the eDesk…
On 21 July 2026, the CSSF updated its COFREP guidance workbook to add the EBA small validation rules package dated 10 June 2026. The workbook states that this package applies to credit institution reports submitted to the CSSF from 15 July 2026. It identifies the applicable EBA package and links to the EBA source material;…
On 21 July 2026 the CSSF published Version 5 of its FAQ on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, and the whole revision sits in one question. Section II, Question 1 now sets out how a Luxembourg fund manager must handle changes to the Article 8 and 9 SFDR RTS precontractual templates that live inside a…
On 7 July 2026 ESMA published a supervisory briefing on triangular passporting under MiFID II (reference ESMA35-243228190-8065), and the CSSF relayed it to Luxembourg professionals in a communique dated 17 July 2026. Triangular passporting is the arrangement where an authorised investment firm serves clients in one Member State through a branch or tied agent it…
On 13 July 2026 the CSSF published its MiFIR DPE notification template, a short XLSX form that Luxembourg credit institutions and investment firms use to apply for designated publishing entity (DPE) status under Article 21a of MiFIR. The form is the point at which a firm formally tells its national regulator that it is willing…
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 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…