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After a year in the making, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) used its annual conference on 13 February 2024 to announce (i) that the Single Resolution Fund...

BaFin has published a draft of the 9th amendment to Germany's Minimum Requirements for Risk Management (MaRisk), introducing a fundamental revision aimed at reducing regulatory complexity for financial institutions. The proposed changes establish a new three-tier classification system for institutions based on size, implement proportional risk assessment requirements, and integrate European Banking Authority guidelines on environmental scenario analysis and internal governance.

On 17 April 2023, the European Central Bank (ECB), acting in its role as the head of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) at the heart of the Banking Union, published the results of an external assessment...

On 12 September 2024, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) published its second report (the Report) on resolution planning and crisis management for smaller banks...

The problem has been clearly identified and the figures are staggering: in 2002 alone, 85 million counterfeit articles were seized by the customs authority at the European Union's external border, and the first half of 2003, a further 50 million were seized. These figures are only the tip of the iceberg, as only a small fraction of the illicit goods are likely to have been apprehended.

On 14 August 2024, the European Central Bank (ECB) published harmonised rules and arrangements for the mobilisation and management of collateral in Eurosystem credit operations.

Art. 4 Abs. 2 der Richtlinie 93/13/ EWG des Rates vom 5. April 1993 über missbräuchliche Klauseln in Verbraucherverträgen ist dahin auszulegen, dass der Begriff „Hauptgegenstand des Vertrags" ...

On 24 February 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a public statement addressing the increasing prevalence of derivatives marketed as "perpetual futures"...

Germany is implementing a stricter licensing regime for consumer credit brokers starting November 2026, requiring proof of expertise and prohibiting sales-based compensation. The new rules expand requirements for intermediaries while exempting small and medium-sized enterprises that finance their own sales, fundamentally reshaping how credit brokerage operates in the German market.

This Client Alert is dated as of 13 March 2023 and comes after a range of resolution actions that have been taken in the US, the UK and equally certain measures that have been taken in the EU-27...

ESMA adopts final product intervention measures to restrict the provision of CFDs and prohibit the provision of binary options to retail investors

On 16 October 2025, the Joint Committee (JC) of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs)—comprising the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)...

Quick Take: More clarity—or more confusion—on what the European Central Bank, acting in its Single Supervisory Mechanism capacity (the ECB-SSM), expects?

On November 25, 2011 the "Act Reforming the Laws on Intermediaries for Financial Investments and on Investment Products" passed the "Bundesrat" (upper house of the German Parliament) without objection.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published its 2024 Annual Report in May 2025 (the Report), providing a comprehensive overview of its regulatory, supervisory and policy activities throughout 2024.