On 17 September 2026 the CSSF published Version 1 of a single application form, an Excel workbook, for a Luxembourg investment fund manager seeking benchmark administrator authorisation or registration under the EU Benchmarks Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/1011. The document names the two populations it is written for: alternative investment fund managers and management companies authorised…
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…
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…
Value an illiquid asset wrong and the error does not stay contained. It feeds straight into the net asset value, into the price at which investors subscribe and redeem, and sometimes into a modified audit opinion. The CSSF illiquid asset valuation review, published on 4 June 2026, sets out where Luxembourg fund managers fall short…