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Notions of "good governance, "proper governance", are used way too liberally nowadays. Up until recently though, the value and significance of these ideals had been relegated to the realm...

The European Commission has adopted new implementing technical standards under the Market Abuse Regulation, fundamentally changing how issuers must maintain insider lists.

Directive (EU) 2022/2381, adopted on November 23rd 2022, and often referred to as the Women on Boards Directive, sets out measurers to improve gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures...

FinanceMalta reached out to Lorraine Vella, the newly appointed Head of Capital Markets Supervision at the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA)...

On the 3rd of October 2025, Legal Notice 216 of 2025 was published in the Government Gazette with the aim of transposing Article...

Originally promulgated in 2004, the Regulations address the establishment and corporate workings of what is typically referred to as the Maltese shipping company.

In 2015, the MFSA conducted a Thematic Review Questionnaire amongst 60 authorised trust companies (‘authorised persons'), which represent approximately half of the licence holders authorised in terms of the Trusts and Trustees Act.

Following the issue of the Malta Financial Services Authority's ("MFSA") consultation document on Security Token Offerings on 19th July 2019 which aimed to pave the way to legal certainty for Security Token Offerings ("STOs") in the Maltese financial markets.

Malta's Bill No. 7 proposes groundbreaking amendments to the Companies Act that would legally recognize distributed ledger technology and tokenized shares in corporate registers.

The MFSA has issued a new General Code of Conduct for Decision Makers within the financial services sector, reinforcing the important role of such individuals in safeguarding the interests...

The Malta Financial Services Authority has issued a Corporate Governance Manual for Directors of Investment Companies and Collective Investment Schemes.

On 26 September 2025, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) published a Dear CEO Letter with its supervisory observations on digital operational resilience...

An International Holding Company (IHC) is a company resident in Malta incorporated with the objective of holding overseas investment and distributes the income to non-residents.

The role of the company secretary should not be looked at as merely fulfilling administrative secretarial duties. Despite the name, the role is not a clerical or secretarial one in the usual sense.

Malta’s company law framework may be taking an important step towards accommodating the infrastructure of digital capital markets.

In its judgement delivered on the 1 March 2024 in the names of Dr. Cedric Mifsud (for and on behalf of Rene Edwin Bultena, the "Plaintiff") vs The Registrar of Companies (the "Respondent")...

There is no single model of good corporate governance. However, some common elements underlie good corporate governance.