News Releases
APRIL 03, 2020
The Malta Financial Services Authority today rolled out a new Supervisory and Enforcement Dashboard, highlighting the key performance indicators with respect to regulatory oversight and enforcement effectiveness, with a focus on the financial regulator’s key supervisory priorities.
The Dashboar ...
MARCH 24, 2020
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has issued a set of guidelines to consumers, also outlining the measures it has put in place to safeguard their interests during such extraordinary times.
These guidelines complement the continued efforts being made ...
MARCH 24, 2020
The Malta Financial Services Authority has requested that, with immediate effect, for an interim period and until otherwise communicated, all documentation submitted to the MFSA should be sent electronically, as part of the regulator’s COVID-19 contingency and business continuity planning.
The ...
MARCH 21, 2020
Taking into account the significant effects of the COVID-19 situation on the financial services sector, the MFSA considers it necessary and proportionate to apply flexibility in the applicable deadlines for the submission of regulatory reporting due over the next months. To this end, the Authority h ...
MARCH 12, 2020
In view of recent local developments relating to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and in addition to the measures which have been announced earlier in the week by the MFSA, the Authority is issuing further guidance in relation to its employees’ interactions with external stakeholders.
Addition ...
MARCH 10, 2020
Following yesterday’s successful large scale test of its remote working facilities, as part of its COVID-19 contingency and business continuity planning, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) continues to closely monitor developments in relation to the spread of COVID-19 to assess the impa ...
MARCH 09, 2020
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 ...
MARCH 04, 2020
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 ...
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
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 ...
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
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 ...
