Launch of a CSSF standardised model prospectus to support the examination of the prospectus to facilitate the drafting of a conventional prospectus for a UCITS project of average complexity.

On April 6, 2023, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) released an update to its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding virtual assets and undertakings for collective...

The SFDR requires FMPs to provide transparent information on the sustainability of their financial products.

The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has recently announced on 17 February 2023 the publication of a new notification template for critical or important ICT outsourcing.

In 2011, a Luxembourg company (Company A) granted a profit participating loan (Loan) to its Belgian subsidiary (Company B), which held debt securities issued by another entity (the Securities).

The European Court of Justice, rendered on 21 December 2023, a decision regarding the classification of directors' activities within the framework of Luxembourg VAT law.

The CSSF has published on its web site on January 10, 2014 a fresh update, the fourth, of its Frequently Asked Questions document regarding Luxembourg’s law of July 12, 2013 on alternative investment fund managers.

On January 30, the European Securities and Markets Authority issued an opinion on the minimum principles that management companies must apply when establishing different UCITS share classes.

ESMA has published on July 21 the latest update to Question and Answers document on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.

The Q&A document was updated by ESMA in July and again at the end of September.

The European Securities and Markets Authority published on May 24 its final report on guidelines for key concepts under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.

On March 6 Luxembourg’s government adopted the draft legislation transposing into national law the grand duchy’s intergovernmental agreement with the US and facilitating compliance by the country’s financial institutions with the requirements of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

The legislation transposing the European Union’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive into Luxembourg law, approved by the grand duchy’s Chamber of Deputies last Wednesday, July 10, has come into force.

On December 22, 2021, the CSSF issued guidelines for the fund industry regarding the new external report on anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism measures that must be drawn up by an external expert.

The Financial Sector Supervisory Authority has announced on December 2 the introduction of a fast-track procedure to facilitate submission of updated prospectuses or issuing documents update for UCITS and alternative investment funds ...

On 15 July 2024, the Luxembourg indirect tax authorities issued Circular n° 821, introducing new digital forms for the submission of quarterly subscription tax returns.

Following the "UCI On-Site inspections", the CSSF concluded that the mitigation measures put in place regarding the tax offences were satisfactory.

In a recent development related to Luxembourg's tax rulings, Advocate General Kokott suggested the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismiss the European Commission's...

The parties to the contract appointing the depositary may agree that all or part of the information required may be transmitted electronically.

Luxembourg's Financial Sector Supervisory Authority has published on March 10 the eighth update of its Frequently-Asked Questions document on the legislation of December 17, 2010 on undertakings for collective investment.