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Die Europäische Bankenaufsichtsbehörde (EBA) und das Europäische System der Zentralbanken (ESCB) haben ihre Antworten zum MiCAR-Review vorgelegt – mit teils unterschiedlichen Positionen zu Stablecoin-Reserven, Signifikanzkriterien und globalen Multi-Issuer-Modellen. Der neue EU RegCORE Client Alert analysiert die divergierenden Standpunkte und zeigt auf, welche Vorbereitungen Banken, Stablecoin-Emittenten, CASPs, Asset Manager und Marktinfrastrukturen jetzt treffen sollten.

The Transposition Act for the Second EU Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) has been in force since January 13, 2018

The German police raided Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarters and several of its other offices in Germany.

In its September 25, 2018 judgement, the 4th Criminal Division of Berlin Court of Appeal ruled that Bitcoin trading is not punishable because Bitcoins are not a financial instrument within the meaning of the Banking Act.

Today's guest details how European regulators are changing their approach to regulating Europe's markets and what that means for the financial services firms under their supervision.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and more recently its sister European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs)

This Client Alert provides an overview of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's updated arbitration guide that was published in December 2018

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.

The German regulatory practice has been to treat bitcoin as a unit of account and thus a financial instrument.

The Council of the European Union has adopted its 20th and 21st sanctions packages against Russia, marking a fundamental shift in EU sanctions policy. Rather than simply expanding lists of designated persons, these measures systematically target the financial infrastructure—payment channels, banking relationships, crypto-asset ecosystems, correspondent banking, trade finance, and maritime logistics—that enables Russia's war economy.

With the UK having left the EU on February 1, 2020, EU policymakers responsible for the direction of the Eurozone, Banking Union and Capital Markets Union...

The EU's digital asset market architecture is evolving beyond MiCAR, raising critical questions about service provision, supervision, and risk allocation across the value chain. This analysis examines MiCAR, the proposed MiCAR 2.0, and the EU Market Integration and Supervision Package (MISP) in an international context, focusing on market access implications, stablecoin regulation, tokenized securities, and sustainable business models.

AlixPartners' 2025 DACH Debt Report provides an in-depth analysis of the changing financial landscape across the region, as companies respond to shifting economic conditions and new challenges.

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.

In online trading, customers are usually provided with several alternative payment methods (purchase on account, direct debit, credit card, PayPal, etc.).