Le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg a favorisé l’émergence de captives de réassurance en permettant la constitution d’une réserve fiscalement déductible.

On 8 March 2017, the European Commission adopted a Commission Delegated Regulation, including Annexes, supplementing the Regulation on key information documents for packaged...

The Solvency II Directive came into effect on 1 January 2016, setting new capital requirements based mostly on the risks embedded on the asset side of balance sheets.

Today, a draft law was released which aims at ensuring that even in case of a hard Brexit, UK entities of the financial and insurance sectors with Luxembourg activities...

On 29 January 2024, the Commissariat aux Assurances (CAA) published Information Note 24/3 (Note), which summarises the outcomes of prudential on-site inspections that the CAA conducted in 2021 and 2022.

On 16 April 2024, the Commissariat aux Assurances (CAA) published Information Note 24/4 (24/4 Note) to inform market actors about the main regulatory instruments...

On 5 July 2022, the Commissariat aux Assurances (CAA) issued Circular Letter 22/13 on EIOPA's revised guidance on the use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) by insurance and reinsurance intermediaries and insurance intermediaries.

On 13 December 2022, the Commissariat aux Assurances ("CAA") published Circular Letter 22/19 on use of the Legal Entity Identifier ("LEI") by "Professionals of the Insurance Sector" ("Circular 22/19")...

This loss of contact usually results from a variety of situations, including customers who have changed address or are deceased.

According to Article 4 b) of Commissariat aux Assurances (CAA) Regulation No 15/03 of 7 December 2015 on insurance and reinsurance undertakings, as amended, Luxembourg insurance companies...

On 18 January 2017, the Court of Appeal of Luxembourg dealing with commercial matters reversed the decision of the 15th chamber of the District Court of Luxembourg dated 1 April 2015.

A discussion on the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling, that article 50 of Directive 2002/83/EC concerning life assurance is to be interpreted as meaning that a Member State's right to subject to an indirect insurance tax on life insurance premiums paid by the individual policyholder residing in this Member State overrides the Member State's taxing rights where the contract was concluded.

On 2 August 2022, the CSSF released a Communiqué on the application of MiFID rules to sustainability and more specifically to the consideration of the requirements relating...

The Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) is to insurance what MiFID is to investments.

On 1 January 2016, a new EU-wide insurance supervision system became effective.

On 8 March 2019, the EC released several proposed amendments to the Standard Formula of Solvency II, which contained several interesting points.

Until recently, Luxembourg's financial sector had no specific legislation on dormant accounts, safes and life insurance contracts. Only regulatory guidance was available on this highly technical...

On 19 March 2024, the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies adopted bill of law 8184 transposing Directive 2021/2118 into national law related to motor vehicle liability insurance1 (the "Bill of Law").

On 19 August 2022, the Commissariat aux Assurances (the "CAA") published Circular Letter 22/16 ("Circular 22/16"), which clarifies the regulatory requirements that are applicable to the outsourcing...

Luxembourg has recently completed its 2018 national risk assessment, which covers data from 2016–2017. This mandatory exercise was performed in preparation for the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)