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Deputy Minister Louis Grech together with Parliamentary Secretary Ian Borg launched a new SME initiative through which around 850 enterprises will benefit during the next five years.

Following our previous article titled ‘A New Medium for Ensuring Fit and Proper Standards for Corporate Service Providers', it has been confirmed by the Malta Financial Services Authority...

Through Legal Notice 288, new regulations entitled Companies Act (Public Companies – Annual General Meetings Regulations)

The amendments to the Companies Act highlighted in FinanceMalta's September newsletter have come into force, with various legal notices issued at the end of December 2025 (LEGISLATION MALTA).

Compare country, region and territory results with family businesses across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the Middle East & Africa.

The Malta Financial Services Authority has drawn attention to ESMA's 2025 Corporate Reporting Enforcement and Regulatory Activities Report, which outlines key enforcement priorities for listed companies' financial reporting. The report identifies common areas of supervisory focus across EU and EEA jurisdictions, emphasizing consistent application of IFRS standards and enhanced corporate reporting quality in European capital markets.

The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has just launched a game-changing tool for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): the Small Business Sustainability Checklist.

By virtue of LN 127 of 2025, changes recently took place in Malta's Companies Act (Register of Beneficial Owners) Regulations.

The European Union has recognised that late payments in commercial transactions negatively affect the entire European economy, as each year, across Europe, thousands of businesses...

The Malta Business Registry (MBR) has published its annual report for 2024, reflecting a year characterised by significant advancements in company registrations, digital transformation...

The transfer of marketable securities, such as shares in Maltese companies, is generally subject to a stamp duty of 2% of their ‘real value', as outlined in the Duty on Documents...

On July 29th, 2024, the Malta Business Registry (MBR) published a notice of amendment to the general proviso in the Memorandum and Articles of Association to read as follows:

On the 30th October 2023, the Malta Financial Services Authority (‘MFSA') issued an updated version of the ‘Corporate Governance Manual for Directors of Collective Investment Schemes'.

Companies are being urged to furnish the Registry with the electronic mail address/es at the earliest opportunity so that they may benefit from this service as soon as it is up and running.

As from the beginning of 2018, the documents to be delivered to the Registry of Companies for the registration of a new company are to include a declaration, in the form prescribed (Form BO1)...

All of the individual shareholders are all qualifying shareholders.

In the recent judgment of M.A.I.N. Services Limited et v Albert Galea et (case 1246/07 JZM) delivered on the 28th September 2017, the Court examined in quite extensive detail the nature and the effects of fiduciary duties.