Regulatory framework

on markets in financial instruments

supplementing Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on settlement discipline

supplementing Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regulatory technical standards on the criteria for the appointment of central contact points for electronic money issuers and payment service providers and with rules on their functions

amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1799 as regards the mapping tables specifying the correspondence between the credit risk assessments of external credit assessment institutions and the credit quality steps set out in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)

on payment services in the internal market, amending Directives 2002/65/EC, 2009/110/EC and 2013/36/EU and Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 and repealing Directive 2007/64/EC

Update of Circular CSSF 17/668 concerning the ESMA Guidelines on calibration of circuit breakers and publication of trading halts under Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments (“MiFID II”) and details on reporting of circuit breakers’ parameters

laying down implementing technical standards with regard to the template to be used by managers of money market funds when reporting to competent authorities as stipulated by Article 37 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1131 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)

on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products

on benchmarks

Guidelines of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on the management body of market operators and data reporting services providers

amending and supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1131 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to simple, transparent and standardised (STS) securitisations and asset-backed commercial papers (ABCPs), requirements for assets received as part of reverse repurchase agreements and credit quality assessment methodologies (Text with EEA relevance)

Guidelines issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on the process for the calculation of the indicators to determine the most relevant currencies in which settlement takes place

Guidelines issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on the process for the calculation of the indicators to determine the substantial importance of a CSD for a host Member State

Adoption of the EBA Guidelines on uniform disclosures under Article 473a of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as regards the transitional period for mitigating the impact of the introduction of IFRS 9 on own funds (EBA/GL/2018/01) as amended by the EBA/GL/2020/12

on the setting of the countercyclical buffer rate for the second quarter of 2018

Information on participating interests and subordinated loans

Update of Circular CSSF 14/593, as amended by Circulars CSSF 15/613, 15/621, 16/640, 17/663 and 18/678, on supervisory reporting requirements applicable to credit institutions

Entry into force of the Law of 13 February 2018 amending, inter alia, the Law of 12 November 2004 on the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing