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The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) today conducted its operations with half its staff complement working off-site as a “dry-run” to test the level of preparedness of the Authority’s functions to ensure business continuity should circumstances warrant that, at any moment in time, the ...

The Minister for Finance the Hon. Edward Scicluna and the Parliamentary Secretary for Financial Services the Hon. Clayton Bartolo visited the MFSA’s offices earlier this afternoon. During the visit, the Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary were taken around the offices, led by the Authority ...

Legal professionals are kindly reminded that, by virtue of Legal Notice 144 of 2018 as amended by Legal Notice 137 of 2019 (the “Order”), the Malta Business Registry Agency, which was previously known as the Registry of Companies, was established as an agency with separate legal personality. As ...

Today the MFSA published a Feedback Statement following a Consultation Document on Security Token Offerings (‘STOs’). The main aim of the Consultation Document was to establish the MFSA’s position on the use of Distributed Ledger Technology (‘DLT’), within the context of the primary issui ...

Following a report in a section of the media referring to Binance as a “Malta-based cryptocurrency” company, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) reiterates that Binance is not authorised by the MFSA to operate in the crypto currency sphere and is therefore not subject to regulatory ove ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has today published a consumer study, entitled “Motor Insurance: Consumer Research on Attitudes and Behaviour.”  This study was one of the deliverables tied to the MFSA’s Conduct Supervision priorities set out in the Authority’s three-year Strat ...

Following the restructuring which took place early last year, the MFSA has been actively engaged in strengthening its organisational capacity by creating new operational and supervisory functions which include risk management, supervisory ICT and cybersecurity risk, financial crime compliance, data ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority has today launched a stakeholder consultation setting out several proposals for the promulgation of a comprehensive principles-based Corporate Governance Code which is applicable to all entities authorised by the MFSA and Listed Companies, which would then be s ...

Today the MFSA published a Feedback Statement following a Consultation Document on Pillar 1 of the FinTech Strategy – Regulations. The Feedback Statement provides the MFSA’s position in relation to the proposed initiatives within the Consultation Document, namely the implementation of the MFSA F ...

With the turn of the year, the MFSA has renewed its commitment to create opportunities through which it can strengthen its engagement with stakeholders in the financial services industry.  Placing this at the top of its agenda, today, the Authority organised an industry workshop, intended to assist ...