Depuis le 15 août 2020, diverses modifications à la législation relative à la prévention du blanchiment sont applicables. Ces changements méritent une attention particulière : la loi prévoit dorénavant plus d'obligations, pour un groupe d'assujettis plus large et avec un degré de sanctions plus élevé.
As part of the second European Payment Services Directive (i.e. Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of 25 November 2015 on payment services in the internal market) (PSD2), which entered into force in 2019 and replaced the Payment Services Directive (PSD), new rules have been developed to provide additional protection for customers
On 24 April 2020, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) issued new guidelines on outsourcing to cloud service providers (the "Guidelines") which apply to insurance and reinsurance undertakings
The investment structure of private equity funds can take many different forms. If you have invested in a fund structured in the form of an investment company (with legal personality)
Ce jeudi 16 juillet 2020, la Chambre des représentants a entériné le projet de loi « portant des dispositions diverses relatives à la prévention du blanchiment de capitaux et du financement du terrorisme et à la limitation de l’utilisation des espèces » (Doc. parl. n° 55-1324/009).
In recent years the European Union has paid increasing attention to sustainability in its policy- making particularly in the financial sector
On 3 June 2020, ESMA published a Consultation Paper (“CP” which is available here) on draft guidelines for outsourcing to cloud service providers.
On 16 October 2019, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued an Opinion concerning one of the most important features of the Payment Services Directive II (PSD II)
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The European Commission has underlined the importance for companies to publish sufficient, reliable and comparable sustainability-related information to effectively direct capital towards sustainable investments.
De vierde antiwitwasrichtlijn (Richtlijn (EU) 2015/849) voerde voor elke lidstaat van de Europese Unie de verplichting tot het opzetten van een UBO-register (‘ultimate beneficial owners’ of uiteindelijk begunstigden) in. In dit centraal register dienen de gegevens van de uiteindelijke begunstigden van de in de lidstaten gevestigde vennootschappen en andere juridische entiteiten verzameld te worden.
