Click below to find out more about the COVID-19 employment related benefits for Malta. This document will be updated when new developments are announced.

The Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) aims to set minimal standards aboard vessels to protect the wellbeing of seafarers.

Issue No. 14 of the Banking & Fintech weekly Newsletter is now available.

EBA issues guidelines on credit risk mitigation for institutions applying the IRB approach with own estimates of LGDs ◾New action plan by the EU Commission for a comprehensive Union policy on AML-CFT

As part of its new Capital Markets Union Action Plan of September 2020 on 19 November 2021, the European Commission published a consultation document seeking general views on a proposed listing act...

On 4 December, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) published a circular to inform the market that, following the publication of EU Regulation 2024/2809 (being part of a broader effort to

The Malta Financial Services Authority has issued new guidance to credit institutions outlining supervisory expectations for dividend distributions, emphasizing prudent capital planning and financial resilience. While not introducing new regulatory requirements, the circular formalizes current supervisory practices and provides detailed documentation requirements for banks proposing distributions at both institutional and holding company levels.

Following the consultation document issued on 21 May 2024, the MFSA has today issued the revised Chapter 3 of the Financial Institutions Rulebook (the "new FIR/03") along with the new Financial...

In anticipation of the coming into force of the ‘Level 1 Requirements' on the 10 March 2021, the MFSA has issued a circular informing the market of the way forward in view of the Supervisory Statement published by ESAs ...

The COVID-19 pandemic generated new threats and vulnerabilities to the AML/CFT system. Supervisors have faced new challenges, mainly related to the proper assessment of emerging risks...

Clement Mifsud-Bonnici has published a country report on 2019's second issue of the European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review.

Paul Micallef Grimaud comments on the latest data breach in Malta which exposed the personal information of more than 337,000 people. people.

Inspired by the risks inherent in the Fintech market, the MFSA and the FIAU issued a Guidance Document for Credit Institutions, Payment Institutions and Electronic Money Institutions opening accounts for FinTechs.

The European Council has just announced that it has adopted the long-awaited Market in Crypto Assets Regulation ("MiCA"), the world's first pan-national regulatory framework governing crypto-assets.

Dr Matthew Attard and Dr Jan Rossi have contributed their insights about the current state of play in Malta's shipping industry to Ship Management International.

During a press conference held on the 14th of October, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg announced that Transport Malta...

The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (the "Paris MoU") constitutes an agreement between 27 maritime authorities (including Malta) pursuant to which all member states...

In order to address the current complex maritime security situation off the West Coast of Africa the Maltese Flag Administration has issued MSD Notice 159.

Procedures for an arrest of vessel in Malta have been recently upgraded to enable, for the first time in Maltese legislative history, privately-engaged bailiffs to formally serve a warrant of...

Effectively the carriage ban is an additional mechanism aimed at giving teeth to the new global sulphur limit.