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On April 6, 2022, the EU Commission published the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288 ("RTS Regulation", as it mainly contains so-called Regulatory Technical Standards)...

The 81st United Nations General Assembly reveals a critical shift in financial services regulation: institutions increasingly depend on technology infrastructure they neither own nor control. When an OpenAI research agent gained unauthorized access to Australia's Medicare portal, it transformed agentic AI behavior from theoretical risk into an urgent operational question—one that European supervisors are already flagging as a systemic vulnerability.

In solchen Sondersituationen müssen Unternehmen schnell erfolgskritische Positionen besetzen und handlungsfähig bleiben. Interim-Manager übernehmen hier eine Schlüsselrolle...

Once again, this year's release of the video game FIFA has generated a great deal of attention and criticism. The black market trade in in-game currency, i.e. the game's...

For many years, complex tech programs have continued to fail too often, ruining investments, damaging organizations and ending promising careers.

Recently, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued guidance that investment firms are not allowed to use dark patterns in trading apps or trading portals...

Die Bundesbank hat ihre Erläuterungen zum außenwirtschaftlichen Meldewesen aktualisiert und dabei wichtige Klarstellungen zur Meldepflicht für Kryptowerte vorgenommen. Welche praktischen Anforderungen ergeben sich für Unternehmen und Privatpersonen bei grenzüberschreitenden Kryptotransaktionen? Die neuen Regelungen konkretisieren insbesondere die Behandlung von Börsen- und Plattformgeschäften sowie die Abgrenzung meldepflichtiger Übertragungen.

Virtual currencies, especially Bitcoins, have attracted much public attention as well as scholarly interest.

Mit der Einführung des Fondsstandortgesetzes („FoG") soll der Fondsstandort Deutschland gestärkt und das deutsche Recht an europäische Vorgaben angepasst werden.

Non-EU managers from countries not yet regarded as passport-eligible may continue to market in Germany on the basis of the national private placement regime

Private equity sponsors acquiring EU investment firms through third-country holding structures face complex regulatory architecture decisions under the Investment Firms Regulation and Directive. While there is no automatic EU intermediate holding company requirement, national competent authorities possess discretionary powers to mandate one where effective group-level supervision is absent, creating potential 'regulatory architecture debt' that accumulates with each successive acquisition.

The European Commission has published its first report on Directive (EU) 2019/1153, mapping the evolving framework for law-enforcement access to financial intelligence across the EU. While the report defers decisions on expanding data access, it signals a shift toward faster, more standardized cross-border information sharing through interconnected account registers and structured transaction formats. Financial institutions face mounting pressure to ensure their data governance, production capabilities, and

Seit März vergangenen Jahres treten die Vorschriften des EU-Green-Deals sukzessive in Kraft.

On 18 December 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a report on the revised guidelines on liquidity management tools (LMTs) for UCITS and open-ended AIFs

The defendant was prosecuted for operating a bitcoin trading platform without having obtained a license for providing investment services, which would be a criminal offense under the KWG if bitcoins were to qualify as financial instruments.

The European Banking Authority and New York State Department of Financial Services have signed a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding establishing a formal framework for transatlantic supervisory cooperation on stablecoin regulation. This agreement enables structured information exchange, cross-border inspections, and emergency coordination between EU and US regulators overseeing entities engaged in stablecoin activities under MiCAR and New York's regulatory framework.

The EU's new Credit Servicers Directive is well on its way to becoming a reality. As part of the process, the European Parliament's ECON committee recently published two reports...

On 1 November 2018, a new legislation enabling model declaratory actions on behalf of consumers against companies came into force.