Events February 19, 2020 IFSP’s Annual Conference – Financial Services: Vision 20/20 New challenges and opportunities are quickly reshaping the financial services industry, with financial services practitioners needing to address them...
Practice news February 26, 2019 EBA/GL/2019/02 – Final Report on EBA Draft Guidelines on outsourcing arrangements The European Banking Authority (EBA) Guidelines will enter into force on 30 September 2019 and contain some transitional periods...
Practice news February 14, 2019 The European Commission adopts new list of third countries with weak anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regimes The Commission has a mandate to carry out an autonomous assessment and identify the high-risk third countries under the...
Practice news February 5, 2019 MFSA issued a circular on Banking Rule BR/14 relating to outsourcing to cloud service providers On 4th February 2019, the MFSA issued a circular on Banking Rule BR/14 which circular notifies credit institutions of...
Practice news January 31, 2019 A revised CBM Directive no. 1 The CBM Directive no. 1 has been amended on the 29 January 2019. The significant changes, featuring in the...
Events January 29, 2019 6th Annual Banking and Finance Law Seminar Note: The seminar has been accredited 3 hours of Structured CPE by the Malta Institute of Accountants and categorised as...
Practice news December 18, 2018 EBA issues a call for expressions of interest to participate in its working group on APIs under PSD2 The EBA launched a new working group on Application Programming Interfaces under PSD2 (WG-API) which group will be composed...
Practice news December 17, 2018 ECB will directly supervise 119 banks in 2019 The European Central Bank (ECB) reviews whether a credit institution or a group fulfils any of the significance criteria...
Practice news December 4, 2018 New PSD2 RTS published The European Commission has adopted the final Delegated Regulation supplementing the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) with regards to...
Practice news October 29, 2018 Unfairness of Contractual Terms for Lack of Clarity is Judicially Reviewable The European Court of Justice (ECJ) determines the scope of Directive 93/13/EEC on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts (the...
Practice news September 19, 2018 MFSA Publishes Circular Prohibiting the Imposition of Negative Interest Rates on Euro Denominated Deposits The Malta Financial Services Authority yesterday issued a circular addressed to credit institutions entitled ‘Imposition of Negative Interest Rates...
Firm news May 3, 2018 Dr Conrad Portanier attends ISDA AGM in Miami On 23-26 April, Dr Conrad Portanier attended the Annual General Meeting of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA),...