News Releases

Fitch Ratings London have issued a press statement through which they advised that they have downgraded BOV’s Long Term Issuer Default Rating and Viability Ratings from BBB+ to BBB with a stable outlook. Bank of Valletta has meanwhile issued its own Press Release, through which the bank explain ...

Falcon Funds SICAV plc (‘Falcon’ or ‘the Scheme’) is a UCITS collective investment scheme registered and licenced in Malta. The Company was registered on the 22 November 2013 and licenced on the 27 December 2013 to carry on the activities of a publicly available umbrella collective investmen ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published the results of the Comprehensive Assessment (CA) exercise undertaken on nine banks located in eight Member States participating in the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) falling under, or likely to fall under, direct ECB supervision.   Links ...

Staff at the Malta Financial Services Authority ‘went pink’ this Friday to raise awareness on the fight against breast cancer. By wearing touches of pink at work, MFSA staff joined the Pink October campaign and paid tribute to victims of this illness and its consequences, raising awareness ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority is pleased to announce that, on the 5th November 2014, it successfully concluded and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Financial Supervisory Commission of Vietnam. The MoU establishes a framework of bilateral cooperation between the two Aut ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published the results of the comprehensive assessment exercise undertaken on 130 banks located in 19 Member States participating in the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). The exercise was conducted by the ECB in conjunction with the national competent authorities ...

2013 has been another successful year for the Maltese financial services industry, with activity recorded in all sectors of the finance industry as trading conditions eased and signs of growth began to appear in the larger economies. MFSA Chairman Professor Joseph Bannister said this in the Annual R ...

The Authority would like to update those investors that hold an investment in ARM Asset Backed Securities S.A. [‘ARM’]. The UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme [‘FSCS’] has confirmed that it sent the claim form against Catalyst Investment Group Limited [‘Catalyst’] to all Ma ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority is pleased to announce that, on the 18 March 2014, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) that will facilitate on-site inspections relating to the prevention of money laundering and funding of terrorism. Bot ...

The Authority would like to update those investors that hold an investment in ARM Asset Backed Securities S.A. [‘ARM’]. In its media statement of 20th February 2014, the Authority had informed thegeneral public that the UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme [‘FSCS’] had determined ...