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 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 7 July 2026 the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) published a communique, “Evolving opportunities and risks in artificial intelligence and its adoption”, addressed to the entities it supervises. The CSSF AI communique responds to a specific concern: frontier AI models have the potential to shrink drastically the gap between vulnerability disclosure and…
On 1 July 2026 the three European Supervisory Authorities each opened a consultation on rewriting the Key Performance Indicators that firms disclose under Article 8 of the EU Taxonomy Regulation. ESMA published a Consultation Paper, the European Banking Authority a Discussion Paper, and EIOPA a consultation on the insurance side. All three close on 12…
Every spring, a Luxembourg reporting team assembles a document that no COREP or FINREP template captures: the institution’s own account of whether it holds enough capital and enough liquidity to survive the risks it actually runs. That account is the ICAAP and ILAAP file, and in Luxembourg its rules sit in Circular CSSF 07/301. The…
The CSSF SREP 2025 supervisory disclosure, published on 29 June 2026, is a short spreadsheet that describes, in the regulator’s own words, how the CSSF runs the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) for Luxembourg investment firms. It carries no firm names and no individual scores. For a Class 2 investment firm it is still…
Luxembourg counterparties that clear euro or Polish zloty interest rate derivatives face their first round of EMIR active account reporting around the end of this month. ESMA’s supervisory guidance sets the first report under Article 7b of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation for 31 July 2026, covering the stretch from 25 June 2025, when the…
A quarterly buffer decision that holds a rate flat is the one most likely to be filed on autopilot, and that is where reporting errors slip in. On 30 June 2026 the CSSF published Regulation No 26-02, which sets the Luxembourg countercyclical capital buffer at 0.50% for the third quarter of 2026, the same level…
Sign a service agreement to run portfolio management technology for an external manager, switch it on, and assume the corporate object in your statutes already covers it. That is the sequence the CSSF IFM ancillary services notification is built to interrupt. On 19 June 2026 the CSSF told the Luxembourg fund industry that an investment…