Regulatory framework

amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 supplementing Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adding Pakistan to the table in point I of the Annex (Text with EEA relevance)

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

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Organisational arrangements applicable to fund depositaries which are not subject to Part I of the Law of 17 December 2010 relating to undertakings for collective investment, and, where appropriate, to their branches;
Amendment to Circular CSSF 16/644 regarding the provisions applicable to credit institutions acting as UCITS depositary subject to Part I of the 2010 Law, where appropriate, represented by their management company; and
Amendment to Circular IML 91/75 (as amended by Circular CSSF 05/177) regarding the revision and recast of the rules to which Luxembourg undertakings governed by the Law of 30 March 1988 on undertakings for collective investment (“UCIs”) are subject

Authorisation and organisation of investment fund managers incorporated under Luxembourg law;
Specific provisions on the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing applicable to investment fund managers and entities carrying out the activity of registrar agent

Update of table Investment Firm (IF) “Persons responsible for certain functions and activities”

amending: 1° the Code of Criminal Procedure; 2° the Law of 7 March 1980 on the organisation of the judicial system, as amended; 3° the Law of 12 November 2004 on the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, as amended; 4° the Law of 25 March 2015 determining the salaries and the advancement conditions and rules for civil servants for the purpose of organising the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)

laying down implementing technical standards with regard to templates for the compliance statement to be published and maintained by administrators of significant and non-significant benchmarks pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)

ESMA Guidelines on stress tests scenarios under Article 28 of the Money Market Fund Regulation

EBA/GL/2018/02

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards determining the minimum content of cooperation arrangements with competent authorities of third countries whose legal framework and supervisory practices have been recognised as equivalent (Text with EEA relevance)

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying further the contents of, and cases where updates are required to, the benchmark statement to be published by the administrator of a benchmark (Text with EEA relevance)

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying further the criteria to be taken into account by competent authorities when assessing whether administrators of significant benchmarks should apply certain requirements (Text with EEA relevance)

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying further the information to be provided by administrators of critical or significant benchmarks on the methodology used to determine the benchmark, the internal review and approval of the methodology and on the procedures for making material changes in the methodology (Text with EEA relevance)

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying further the governance and control requirements for supervised contributors (Text with EEA relevance)

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying further the elements of the code of conduct to be developed by administrators of benchmarks that are based on input data from contributors (Text with EEA relevance)

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying further how to ensure that input data is appropriate and verifiable, and the internal oversight and verification procedures of a contributor that the administrator of a critical or significant benchmark has to ensure are in place where the input data is contributed from a front office function (Text with EEA relevance)

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the procedures and characteristics of the oversight function (Text with EEA relevance)