On 2nd July 2025, the Malta Gaming Authority ("MGA") published its Capital Requirements Policy (the "Policy"), which introduces new financial obligations for licensed entities.

The Malta Budget 2026, presented on 27 October 2025, reaffirms the Government's focus on social equity, workforce retention, and skills development, signalling investment in both people and productivity.

The Council of the European Union has recently published the final text of the political agreement reached in relation to the revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive ("AIFMD")...

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, has made social distancing - whether it is mandated or strongly advised by governments - somewhat of a rule to live-by. Businesses are naturally feeling the deleterious economic impact...

The Budget for the 2026 legislature was presented to the Maltese Parliament on the 27th of October 2025, highlighting Malta's continued strong economic...

We all still cringe at the sound of ‘pandemic' and ‘covid-19' – we've heard too much of it and lost so much to it. Now that we've regained control of our lives, we want nothing more...

Malta has transposed the EU Pay Transparency Directive through new regulations that fundamentally change how employers must approach remuneration and workplace transparency. Organizations can no longer rely...

What are compliance obligations under GDPR if you operate CCTV surveillance?

Malta's legislative landscape underwent significant transformation in April 2026, with new regulations spanning anti-money laundering, gaming taxation, sports club commercialization, and cancer survivor protections. How will these changes reshape compliance obligations for financial institutions, gaming operators, and employers while advancing individual rights and market competitiveness?

The 3rd of July 2020 marked Parliament's ratification of Act No. XXXII of 2020, referred to as, Real Estate Agents, Property Brokers and Property Consultants Act, 2020,...

Assigning appropriate retention periods to categories of personal data is one of the fundamental principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the "GDPR").

A medical benefit can be procured by those individuals employed in the private sector of Malta, and who after the 27th of March 2020 due to COVID-19

The COVID-19 outbreak (the "Outbreak") has effects on, alongside many other legal sectors, the public procurement sector.

While the State seeks ways to keep up with the spread of the virus, impacting all sectors and society in general, employers are finding themselves lost in a barrage of information

On the 30th of November 2021, as part of its commitment to effectively fight tax crimes, the FIAU released a factsheet on typologies and red flag indicators related to tax evasion and money laundering.

The European Commission's proposal for a regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (the "Data Act"), originally published on 23 February 2022...

On the 11th July 2025, Act XVIII of 2025 (the "Act") was promulgated, which introduced several amendments to the Companies Act (Chapter 386 of the laws of Malta) (the "Companies Act")...

On the 3rd of December 2020, Directive (EU) 2018/1673 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on combating money laundering by criminal law ...

In a circular issued on 27th March 2020[1], the Listing Authority provided welcome guidance to listed companies, investors and the financial market at large as to the interplay

The term ‘green loan' has become increasingly omnipresent in economic and market discourse. What is a ‘green loan' and what distinguishes it from your typical ‘loan'?