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After long and intense negotiations, the EU's co-legislators, the European Parliament and the Council agreed details, along with some last-minute surprises...

The EU has agreed that the so-called "travel rule", which already exists for fiat and electronic money i.e., "traditional money transfers" and EU and European Economic Area...

Getting cyber-resilience right matters. In July 2018, we published our analysis1 on the European Central Bank's (ECB) first foray into setting its expectations on cyber-resilience.

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 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)...

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.

Originating loans to German borrowers requires a licence under German law, a European passport or an exemption from German licence rules.

Last week, the German Federal Tax Court (Bundesfinanzhof) published the first decision of a German superior court in which the German Federal Tax Court deals with the differentiation between asset management activities and trade or business activities with respect to private equity funds.

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).