Last week, Germany's Financial Supervisory Authority unveiled a centralized platform for receiving whistleblower complaints, including anonymous complaints, of alleged violations of supervisory provisions within the financial sector.

Fit and proper assessments are key supervisory tools in the EU but also in the Eurozone and its Banking Union.

Dr. Martin Heuber has taken the helm as Managing Partner of Mayer Brown in Germany, succeeding Guido Zeppenfeld in this leadership role. What strategic priorities is this banking and finance expert setting in the current market climate, and how are debt funds performing under his guidance?

Last Friday, Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board's ("FRB") Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks to the ECB Forum on Banking Supervision in Frankfurt, Germany entitled The Importance of Effective Liquidity Risk Management.

On June 29, 2022, the German Federal Ministry of Finance ("MoF") officially extended the filing deadline for the application of the "simplified procedure" in the so-called "register cases" by one year.

The EU Commission adopted as a result of its FinTech Action Plan, the European Crowdfunding Services Providers Regulation (ECSPR 2020/1503) on 20th October 2020.

Transactions in Bitcoin do not constitute a bank transaction and certainly such transactions are not a criminal offence.