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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。

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.

The terminology used in this report includes, but is not limited to, digital assets, cryptoassets, virtual assets, digital settlement assets, virtual currencies and cryptocurrencies. The terminology and spelling follow those adopted by the relevant authority.

On 29 April 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published an opinion on new types of payment fraud and possible mitigants, addressed to the EU co-legislators and the EU Commission (the Opinion).

The European Central Bank (ECB) frequently provides legal opinions either on its own initiative or at the request of EU institutions or national authorities with respect to proposed new laws...

Usually every January the European Central Bank (ECB), acting at the helm of the Banking Union's Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), publishes its overall compliance assessment...

On 11 September 2024, Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority published an Information Sheet (01/2024 (WA)) specifying its expectations when a securities institution must appoint at least two people as its management i.e. as managing directors.

On 16 July 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a consultation paper (CP) and draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the criteria for establishing...

BaFin has published a new Circular on interest rate risks in the banking book (IRRBB).

BaFin has published a new Circular on interest rate risks in the banking book (IRRBB). It is aimed at German credit institutions and contains revised guidelines ...

The European Commission has launched dual consultations on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), seeking feedback from both retail users and industry stakeholders on whether the regulation remains fit for purpose. Key areas under review include the treatment of decentralized finance, stablecoins, crypto-asset service providers, NFTs, tokenised deposits, and the private-law treatment of tokens, with responses due by 31 August 2026.

On September 15, 2014, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) published a landmark decision.

Insurers operating in the EU and under the Solvency II Directive's legislative and regulatory framework come in different shapes and sizes.

As evidenced on 19 July 2024 major IT outages, including those caused by a simple yet apparently defective "content update", can quickly cascade into systemic cyber incidents.

In 2019 the non-performing loan (NPL) ratio of the EU banking sector declined to 3%. At the same time, both EU legislators and the European Central Bank (ECB)...

Bei dem EU-Listing Act handelt es sich um ein Gesetzespaket (bestehend aus einer Verordnung und zwei Richtlinien), mit dem der europäische Gesetzgeber das Ziel verfolgt, ...