This newsletter is intended as a general discussion of the following topics: Banking & Financial Services, Corporate and M&A, Investment Management, Tax. If you would like to know more about the topics covered in this newsletter or our services, do not hesitate to contact the newsletter contributors or your usual BSP contact.
Banking & Financial Services | Capital Markets
- Publication of the Luxembourg law transposing CRD V and BRRD II
- New Luxembourg draft law on covered bonds
- Draft law to implement EU crowdfunding regulation
- MIFID II and MIFIR | ESMA updated Q&AS on investor protection and intermediaries topics
- Securitisation Regulation | Update of ESMA's Q&A
- Securitisation Regulation | Joint Committee Q&A
- Prospectus Regulation | Update of ESMA's Q&A
- Circular CSSF 21/771 | Application of ESMA’s guidelines on disclosure requirements under the Prospectus Regulation
Investment Management
- AML/CFT | EBA Opinion on the risks affecting the European Union’s Financial Sector
- Money Market Funds | CSSF Communiqué – Reporting Instructions
- CSSF updated Q&A | Application of MIFID II
- Benchmark Regulation | Update to ESMA’S Q&A
- ESG New European Commission package of measures
- Performance Fees | ESMA Updates UCITS and AIFMD Q&A
- EST | Joint consultation paper on Taxonomy related sustainability disclosures
- The new rules to facilitate cross-border distribution of investment funds
Tax
- Proposed changes to Commentaries in the OECD Model Tax Convention
- Extension of teleworking for Belgian, French and German cross-border workers in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
- Court Decision on the concept of acquisition price in relation with contributions to the Account 115
- Circular on tax deductibility of certain expenses made by individuals
- Communication of the European Commission on business taxation for the 21st century
- Lower Administrative Court finds MPRS qualify as equity for tax purposes
- G7 nations agree to set a global minimum corporate tax rate at 15%
- Provisional agreement on public country-by-country reporting
- ECJ judgment on scope of VAT exemption for special investment fund management services
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