News Releases

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has come across local media adverts, reports and product documentation about investments in “bonds” or “fund accounts” whose performance is linked to assets, such as life insurance policies or currencies (referred to as asset-backed investmen ...

Consumers who have been approached by foreign contacts with an offer to work from home, should be forewarned. They might be victims of scams which have been doing the rounds in many other countries before hitting Malta during these past few weeks. These scams are disguised behind numerous pretences, ...

The public is reminded that Legal Notice 20 of 2009 issued in terms of the Banking Act (Cap. 371) and published in the Government Gazette of the 16th January 2009, declared Easter Monday as a bank holiday. Accordingly, bank branches and offices will not be operating on 13 April 2009. ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has the responsibility to provide the public in general with information and direction on issues regarding the financial sector, as well as to monitor activities by financial intermediaries that directly or indirectly affect consumers of financial servic ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has received complaints concerning tariffs that are being imposed by banks for banking services. It has also taken note of letters and comments regarding these tariffs which appeared in the local media. Although the main function of the Authority is t ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority has published a report entitled “Building on Success – Future Skills Requirements in the Financial Services Sector”, based on a survey undertaken by the Authority during the first quarter of 2008. The survey was influenced by the need to obtain a more ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority has published a new guide for retail investors on the most important elements of the European Directive for financial markets: the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The guide, largely based on that published by the Committee of European Securi ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has received a number of reports from the general public about unsolicited telephone calls, SMSes or correspondence (by e-mail and post) concerning bogus investment opportunities, and prize/lottery winnings. These calls/correspondence are typically deriv ...

An informative booklet on career opportunities within the financial services sector was recently launched by the Education Consultative Council of the Malta Financial Services Authority during a recent seminar organised for Guidance Teachers in Government, Church and Private Schools. The seminar was ...

1.0 Publication of new Investment Services Rules With effect from the 1st November, 2007, the Investment Services Guidelines have ceased to exist and have been replaced by the Investment Services Rules for Investment Services Providers and the Investment Services Rules for Recognised Persons and ...