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The EU has agreed that the so-called "travel rule", which already exists for fiat and electronic money i.e., "traditional money transfers" and EU and European Economic Area...

In keeping with activity of both the EU-level financial regulatory and supervisory authorities as well as activity advanced at the national level by respective competent authorities...

At the start of July 2025, AMLA - the EU's new "Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism" published its Annual Work Programme (AWP) for 2025.

Around the world, blockchain technology is developing at a rapid pace, and has the potential to significantly reshape market infrastructure. The EU has introduced new rules for a harmonized regulatory...

Every year, usually during the fourth quarter, EU-level authorities such as the European Banking Authority (EBA) publish their Annual Work Programmes (AWPs)...

On 9 June 2023, the EU's recastShow Footnote Wire Transfer Regulation (WTR II)Show Footnote (also sometimes referred to as the Transfer of Funds Regulation) was published in the EU's Official Journal.

The EU's Market in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) became fully operational as of 30 December 2024. As explored in PwC Legal's EU RegCORE' series covering developments across...

On 17 August 2022 the European Central Bank (ECB) acting in its role at the head of the Banking Union's Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) published an article...

The recent festive season drove peak online shopping, travel bookings and charity giving, a time when fraudsters were most active – now increasingly armed with artificial intelligence...

On 28 January 2026, Germany's national competent authority (NCA) the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) published its 2026 edition of BaFin's "Risks in Focus" (RiF)...

The EBA published a report on white labelling, accompanied by a fact sheet. In the report, the EBA considers the use of white labelling as a business model by the firms that are under its mandate...

The German Central Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank – BuBa) has published an updated directory of credit institutions and their associations in Germany on banking related information for 2025.

Every year, usually during the fourth quarter, the Banking Union relevant authorities, comprised of the European Central Bank (ECB), acting at the helm of the Single Supervisory Mechanism...

BaFin has published its annual report on the risks it will focus on throughout the year in English and German. It sets out the main risks that BaFin...