On 15 April 2025, the EU Commission unveiled a series of simplification measures to facilitate the implementation of the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products, with the goal of reducing the compliance burden...

The EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation introduces a harmonised regulatory framework across the European Union, bringing significant changes to Customer Due Diligence requirements and risk-based approaches. Organizations will need to review their compliance frameworks to meet new obligations on customer identification, beneficial ownership, sanctions screening, and risk assessment ahead of implementation.

The European Union has introduced three major cybersecurity frameworks—NIS2, DORA, and the CRA—that significantly expand regulatory obligations across critical sectors and financial entities. These overlapping directives create a complex compliance landscape for organizations operating in the Benelux region, requiring careful navigation of technical requirements, incident reporting duties, and supply-chain security measures.

The CSSF has launched a data collection exercise for SFDR compliance by IFMs, requiring completion of a dedicated questionnaire via a new eDesk module by 2 March 2023.

Luxembourg's Business Registers will begin enforcing compliance sanctions from September 2026, introducing a graduated penalty system for entities with incomplete or inaccurate RCS and RBE filings. The framework progresses from public warnings to daily fines of EUR 40 and potential deletion from the registers, with entities able to regularise their position at any stage to avoid escalating consequences.

Are you dealing with IFRS 9 reporting for a bank which is under the supervision of CSSF? Can you confidently answer YES to these 8 key questions?

CSSF Circular 14/587 regarding provisions applicable to credit institutions acting as depositary of UCITS under Part I of the Luxembourg Law of 17 December 2010 – transition period extended to 18 March 2016.

The European Securities and Markets Authority has issued new supervisory guidance on triangular passporting under MiFID II, addressing how authorized entities can use branches or tied agents in one host Member State to provide investment services in another. This briefing establishes principles to prevent regulatory arbitrage while clarifying supervisory responsibilities among national competent authorities across multiple jurisdictions.

The European regulator, ESMA, issued a public statement in October 2017 defining the enforcement priorities that European national regulators will have during their review of listed companies'...

On 26 February 2025 the European Commission published a new package of proposals to simplify and reduce the reporting requirements under Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the EU Taxonomy (EUT), and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), the Omnibus package.

The Luxembourg Business Register (LBR) is looking to speed up its RCS registration process by replacing PDF forms with a new HTML version that can be completed directly online.

As of January 1, 2021, new rules on corporate governance will apply to Luxembourg based banks. Indeed, the Luxembourg banking supervisor CSSF has published a few days ago a major...

19 December 2024 marked the adoption, by the Luxembourg Parliament, of bill of law 7961 (the "Law") that introduces amendments to the law of 13 January 2019 as it relates to the establishment...

Private credit funds are nowadays key providers of credit to businesses and have taken over the role of traditional banks.

As tax specialists will already know, operational taxes are a crucial area for compliance matters nowadays.

US tax requirements require you to take a number of key actions to better ensure that you are compliant. Have a look at our other checklists on qualified intermediaries and FATCA and CRS obligations.

It was about two years ago that articles about regtech first began hitting newsstands.

It's not always easy to determine if an acquired set of activities and assets results in a business or only in an asset acquisition.

The EU's digital regulatory framework—spanning the AI Act, GDPR reforms, the Data Act, NIS2, and the Cyber Resilience Act—extends far beyond European borders...

On 12 September 2023, the European Commission proposed the Business in Europe: Framework for Taxation directive, which lays down a new, single set of rules to determine the tax base...