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Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance has published a draft bill implementing the EU Anti-Money Laundering Package, introducing sweeping changes to the country's AML framework through a new Money Laundering Combating Act. The legislation expands the scope of obliged entities, modernizes automated account access systems with EU-wide connectivity, and restructures supervisory mechanisms while maintaining direct application of EU regulations for most substantive obligations.

Kryptowährungen, vor allem Bitcoin als die wohl bekannteste unter ihnen sind in jüngster Vergangenheit vielfach in Erscheinung getreten. Besonders spektakulär auch der Fall des

The Banking Directive Implementation and Bureaucracy Relief Act (Bankenrichtlinienumsetzungs- und Bürokratieentlastungsgesetz, BRUBEG), passed by the German Bundestag on 29 January 2026...

On 12 September 2023, the European Commission (the Commission) published a proposal for a Regulation on combating late payment in commercial transactions (hereafter the Proposal or Proposed Regulation)...

The European Union has fundamentally restructured its anti-money laundering framework through a comprehensive legislative package that replaces fragmented national implementations with directly applicable regulations. This transformation introduces a new EU-wide supervisory authority, expands the scope of regulated entities, and establishes harmonized customer due diligence requirements across all member states.

In February 2025, the German investment landscape experienced a significant shift with the amendment of the German Ordinance Act, Anlageverordnung (AnlV)...

德国是世界上最受到条规监管的国家之一。

Few questions in financial regulation carry more practical consequence than whether a given business model requires an authorization. For established financial institutions, the licensing framework is familiar terrain.

The breadth of information and communications technology (ICT) services on offer to financial services firms continues to develop rapidly.

The EU has - as announced for several weeks in political debates - intensified the economic sanctions against Russia as from 1 August 2014. In this context, several EU Council regulations have recently been issued.

SREP is an important supervisory tool used by the ECB-SSM but also by national competent authorities (NCAs) in setting the tone for the supervisory dialogue...

The Banking Union generally but the SSM specifically, whether at the level of the ECB at its head or at the participating NCAs continue to focus on ensuring that the EU's Single Rulebook, as applied in the SSM context, ...

A functioning real economy requires the financial system to perform a range of key economic functions reliably. These include payment services, securities trading, settlement services and deposit taking, among others.

The European Union's securitisation market has struggled to reach its full potential despite the introduction of the Securitisation Regulation (SECR) in 2019. While the market has shown modest growth...

Due to Brexit developments, for many non-European investors the option to acquire a German banking or financial licence, including the attached benefit of being able to use the European passport regime, is a part of their strategic thinking in terms of their future European business model.

On 17 July 2024, the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs), representing the European Banking Authority (EBA)...

On 10 July 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its third consultation package (CP3).Show Footnote CP3's 359 pages are delivered