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The Situation: The European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") has fined several banks for negligently issuing credit ratings on a professional basis ...

Cash-pooling agreements, e.g., agreements regarding liquidity reconciliation between companies within a corporate group, have numerous advantages for the participating companies.

Nicola Sharp of business crime solicitors Rahman Ravelli believes that those who devised the investment schemes under investigation are more likely to be prosecuted than those who invested in them.

A former bank board member was sentenced by a German court to three years and two months in jail for his part in a €93.4 million Cum-Ex scheme.

Die Verpflichtungen im Zusammenhang mit den Sanktionsmassnahmen, einschliesslich der Meldung und Sperrung von Vermögenswerten sanktionierter natürlicher oder juristischer Personen, werden durch das...

German insurers have historically been conservative investors that are highly exposed to fixed-income investments.

On 21 October 2015, the German Federal Court of Justice decided that a bank cannot refuse to disclose personal data of a client if his or her bank account was used to receive payments ‎for the sale of counterfeit trademark goods.

A bank is entitled to use the name "DAX®" to communicate that its financial instrument is linked to the rate of the DAX.

Wird die Bebauung einer Fläche angestrebt, müssen für die Erteilung der Baugenehmigung häufig rechtliche Voraussetzungen hinsichtlich der grundbuchlichen Situation geschaffen werden.

The finance ministry has issued a decree on the conditions under which redundancy payments still rank for favourable tax treatment, despite continuing or additional benefits to ex-employees.

In its meeting of 18 December 2015, the German Bundesrat approved the Act on the Automatic Exchange of Information on Financial Accounts in Tax Matters and on the Amendment of other Acts (Finanzkonten-Informationsaustauschgesetz ("FKAustG")).

Das Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz und das Bundesministerium der Finanzen haben am...

On 18 December 2024, the German Parliament (Bundestag) passed the Act on the Digitalization of Financial Markets (Finanzmarktdigitalisierungsgesetz, the "Act").

The European Union is making progress in updating and clarifying rules under the Alternative Investments Fund Manager Directive AIFMD. ESMA recently published their review.