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On May 16, 2018, the Economic and Monetary Committee of the European Parliament backed a proposal (the Proposal) of the European Commission (the Commission), as the executive of the EU,

Topics (selection): Bank liquidation / BaFin event on technical cooperation / Outsourcing of banks / Cooperation with Japan / Stronger supervision of subordinated loans

Imagine you design, deploy and deliver (in record time) one of the most comprehensive (regulatory) sandboxes and no one turns up to play.

Our monthly regulatory newsletter monitors all relevant developments regarding German and European regulatory law in English language. Furthermore, we produce detailed briefings to cover key developments in the field of financial regulatory law.

This article, authored by international secondee Pascal Urban from Gleiss Lutz, was first published in the January 2025 issue of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law.

When an incident occurs at a financial institution, whether a cyberattack, an operational failure, a data breach, or internal misconduct, the immediate response is rarely a single, straightforward process.

Every year, usually during the fourth quarter, the Banking Union relevant authorities, comprised of the European Central Bank (ECB), acting at the helm of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM)...

The keenly awaited details of the EU's proposed first omnibus package were published on 26 February 2025. The package includes amendments to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

In today's competitive business landscape, traditional profitability analysis methods are falling short. Treating all customers, products, and channels equally can lead to misguided strategies...

On July 11, 2017, the Frankfurt based European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) released an "Opinion on supervisory convergence in light of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the EU" ...

At the start of July 2025, AMLA - the EU's new "Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism" published its Annual Work Programme (AWP) for 2025.

Investment needs of German DSOs are increasing rapidly due to the energy transition, electrification, and digitalization. Municipalities and their utilities (Stadtwerke) face the challenge...

On May 31, 2017, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), which is an EU-wide European Supervisory Authority (ESA), released a legal instrument ...

As explored in an earlier Client Alert,Show Footnote the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its annual work programme (AWP) for 2025 on 1 October 2024.

Like the financial services firms they supervise most financial services supervisory authorities, whether it is the national competent authorities (NCAs) or the European Central Bank (ECB)...

Directive (EU) 2021/2167 on credit servicers and credit purchasers was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (EU) on 8 December 2021 and entered into force twenty days thereafter.

On 28 June 2023, the European Commission (the Commission) published a package of legislative proposals to propel payments and the wider financial services sector further into the digital age.