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ESMA Call for Evidence

on the review of the Commission Directive 2007/16/EC on UCITS eligible assets
The Call for Evidence is launched in the context of the European Commission’s formal request to ESMA to provide technical advice on the review of the Commission Directive 2007/16/EC on UCITS eligible assets…

Publication of a roadmap in connection with the Overseas Funds Regime

The CSSF hereby informs you that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and HM Treasury have jointly issued a roadmap to explain how the Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) is intended to be opened to European Economic Area (EEA) funds authorised under Directive 2009/65/EC, as amended,…

Administrative sanction of 8 February 2024

Administrative sanction imposed on Lemanik Asset Management S.A.

Global situation of undertakings for collective investment at the end of March 2024

Press release 24/12
As at 31 March 2024, the total net assets of undertakings for collective investment, comprising UCIs subject to the 2010 Law, specialised investment funds and SICARs, amounted to EUR 5,485.248 billion compared to EUR 5,393.311 billion as at 29 February 2024, i.e.…

New SFTR & EMIR procedures available for notification forms and intra-group exemption requests

Following the entry into force of the EMIR Refit regulation on April 29, 2024, the CSSF enables financial and non-financial counterparties to complete and submit the “EMIR – notification form and request for intragroup exemption” and “SFTR – notification form” procedures either through eDesk or…

CSSF communication on macroprudential measures for GBP denominated Liability Driven Investment funds

On 23 November 2023, the CSSF launched a public consultation outlining a proposal, following coordination with the Central Bank of Ireland, to introduce macroprudential measures by imposing a minimum yield buffer on GBP denominated Liability Driven Investment funds (“GBP LDI funds”) via the use of…

Critical vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA software/appliance and FTD software (CVE-2024-20359, CVE-2024-20358, CVE-2024-20353)

The CSSF has been made aware of three recent critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-20359, CVE-2024-20358 and CVE-2024-20353) in Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) software/appliance and FTD (Firepower Threat Defense) software, which are actively exploited. CIRCL, the Computer Incident Center Luxembourg, published a technical report on this subject,…

Administrative sanction of 7 March 2024

Administrative sanction imposed on Baumann & Partners S.A.

Adoption of the AML package by the European Parliament

In July 2021, the European Commission presented an ambitious package of legislative proposals to strengthen the EU’s anti-money laundering and Countering the financing of terrorism rules which became commonly known as “the AML Package”. After more than two years of negotiations, the AML package was…

Obituary (only in French)

C’est avec une grande tristesse que la CSSF a appris le décès d’Olivier Lefèvre, réviseur d’entreprises agréé au sein du cabinet Deloitte Audit S.à r.l jusqu’en 2023. Olivier était un grand contributeur pour la profession de l’audit et a notamment été membre de divers comités…

Circular CSSF 24/857

ESMA Guidelines on stress test scenarios under Article 28 of the Money Market Fund Regulation – 2023 update (ESMA50-43599798-9011)

Administrative penalty of 21 September 2023

Administrative penalty imposed on the investment firm Fuchs & Associés Finance S.A. (in liquidation)

Voluntary dry run exercise for the collection of the registers of information required by DORA

Under the Digital Operation Resilience Act (DORA) and starting from 2025, financial entities will have to maintain registers of information regarding their use of ICT third-party service providers. In this context, the CSSF would like to draw the attention to the announcement by the European…

Russia/Ukraine: Article 5r (833/2014)

Reporting template & FAQ
Following the introduction of  Article 5r in the Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 of 31 July 2014, the European Commission has published FAQs and the reporting template to be used. The information is also available on the website of the Ministry…

Administrative sanction of 13 February 2024

Administrative sanction imposed on the investment fund manager M7 Portuguese Active Fund General Partner S.à r.l.

Critical vulnerability on Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS (CVE-2024-3400)

The CSSF has been made aware of a recent critical vulnerability: a command injection vulnerability in the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software, referred to as CVE-2024-3400. This vulnerability can allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the…

Administrative sanction of 14 December 2023

Administrative sanction imposed on a réviseur d’entreprises agréé (approved statutory auditor)