News Releases

The MFSA would like to advise that its CEO, Mr Joseph Gavin, is currently indisposed. The Board of Governors has appointed Chief Officer Enforcement, Dr Michelle Mizzi Buontempo, as Acting CEO in Mr Gavin’s absence, effective 15 June 2022. ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority has issued a comprehensive document aimed at guiding insurers on how to handle the mandatory assessment of a client’s demands and needs prior to the offering of any insurance contract. The assessment was made mandatory by the Insurance Distribution Directi ...

MFSA’s CEO Joseph Gavin talks about Malta being open to good business in the first episode of the Ganado Meets Finance podcast. Speaking to Ganado Advocates Managing Partner Dr André Zerafa, Mr Gavin breaks down the supervisory priorities of Malta's financial services regulator and his thoughts o ...

The integration of Anti-Money Laundering / Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) into the supervisory priorities of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has yielded positive results, its Deputy Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Matthew Scicluna, said recently. Mr Scicluna was ...

Compliance officers and Money Laundering Reporting Officers require specific investigative skills and an analytic approach to complement their academic qualifications, the Chief Officer Supervision of the Malta Financial Services Authority, Dr Christopher Buttigieg, explained. Dr Buttigieg also s ...

The Malta Financial Services Authority has published a Guidance Note outlining the principles and processes it would use when calculating an administrative penalty for breaches of regulatory requirements. Although the information in the Guidance Note is not binding on the Authority, it clearly ou ...

All listed entities which intended to submit their annual reports electronically by the end of April managed to do so successfully, the first time that this has been done in Malta. The obligation to prepare annual reports electronically was imposed by the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) ...

A Capital Markets Supervision Function has been established within the Malta Financial Services Authority as of 1 May 2022. The newly set up function within the MFSA’s Supervisory Directorate is intended to bring a fresh focus to the markets and listing space, and will drive the implementation of ...

In line with its commitment to protect and educate consumers of financial services, the MFSA has launched an information campaign on insurance-based investment products (IBIPs). Given the rising popularity of these financial instruments, the campaign aims to provide consumers with essential infor ...

This article Fine Tuning Our Strategy for 2022/2023 appeared on the Sunday Times of Malta dated 17 April 2022. July 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the MFSA as the single regulatory authority for financial services. Building on foundations that have been re-shaped by EU ...