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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…

  • 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…

  • AnaCredit v1.0.15: BCL Swaps the NUTS 3 Code List for January 2027

    On 1 October 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) published version 1.0.15 of its AnaCredit technical specifications together with a new SDMX schema package, and its reporting instructions page states that the AnaCredit v1.0.15 schemas are mandatory from reference date January 2027 (included) onwards. Credit institutions and foreign branches resident in Luxembourg therefore send…

  • 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-CODERES 26/22: SRF Data Reporting Due 15 January 2027

    On 29 September 2026 the CSSF’s Resolution Board published Circular CSSF-CODERES 26/22, which launches the Single Resolution Board’s data collection for the 2027 contribution period of the Single Resolution Fund (SRF). The circular requires Luxembourg credit institutions within the Single Resolution Mechanism to send the SRB’s 2027 Data Reporting Form (DRF) to the CSSF in…

  • 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…