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The Law of 22 June 2022 on the management and recovery of seized or confiscated assets (the " Law of 2022"), which entered into force on 5 July 2022, aims at completing the transposition of Directive 2014/42/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the freezing and

On 20 March 2022, the Luxembourg law (draft law No. 8055) on distributed ledger technology (the " DLT Law") amending (i) the law of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector (the " Financial Sector Law"), (ii) the law of 5 August 2005 on financial collateral law (the " Financial Collateral Law") and (iii

On 20 March 2023, the Luxembourg law (draft law No. 8055) on distributed ledger technology (the " DLT Law") amending (i) the law of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector (the " Financial Sector Law"), (ii) the law of 5 August 2005 on financial collateral law (the " Financial Collateral Law") and (iii

On 7 December 2022, the European Commission put forward a set of measures to further develop the EU Capital Markets Union ( "CMU"). These measures which are commonly referred to collectively as the " Listing Act" comprise proposals for : an amending regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 ("

The CSSF levies fees on supervised persons and institutions to cover personnel costs as well as general financial and operating costs. The level of fees is set by a Grand-Ducal Regulation which is updated from time to time and most recently by the Grand-Ducal Regulation of 23 December 2022 (the “

Extending the Transitional Period Referred to in Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 On 21 October 2022 and having regard to Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 (“ Crowdfunding Regulation ”) on European crowdfunding service providers (“ CSPs”) for business, the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1988 of 12 July

In December 2022, ESMA published new guidelines and Q&As regarding Regulation (EU) 2022/858 of 30 May 2022 on a pilot regime (the " DLT Pilot Regime") for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) (the " DLT Pilot Regime Regulation "). On 15 December 2022, ESMA published

Updated Rules & Regulations of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange On 18 October 2022, Luxembourg Stock Exchange (“ LuxSE”) published an updated LuxSE Rules & Regulations 2022 and LuxSE Trading Manual 2022 . The purpose of this update was the introduction of a new Fast-Lane procedure for admission to

In October and November 2022, ESMA updated its Questions and Answers (“ MAR Q&A”) on Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (the “ Market Abuse Regulation” or " MAR"), and its Questions and Answers (“ CSDR Q&A”) on Regulation (EU) No. 909/2014 (the " CSDR"). With the latest update of the MAR Q&A, ESMA amended

Background On 2 January 2023, the CSSF published a press release for the attention of issuers of securities subject to the law of 11 January 2008 on transparency requirements for issuers of securities, as amended (the " Transparency Law") and their auditors (the " Press Release"). With this Press

On 7 December 2022, the Official Journal of the EU published Directive (EU) 2022/2381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 on improving the gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures (the “ Directive”). The Directive aims at ensuring the

European Banking Authority guidelines on loan origination and monitoring (EBA/GL/2020/06) On 29 May 2020, the European Banking Authority (the " EBA") issued final guidelines on loan origination and monitoring (the " Guidelines"). The purpose of the Guidelines is to ensure that in-scope entities have