New reporting obligations relating to transfers of funds out of the EU by EU entities with a certain level Russian ownership...

Circular C605 - EBA Public Consultation Paper on new Guidelines on preventing the abuse of funds and certain crypto -assets transfers, for m

EBA Consultation Paper - Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing & Crypto-Asset Service Providers

CySEC's Circular C576 & The Implementation of EBA's Guidelines

Invest Cyprus aims to attract and facilitate foreign direct investments into the country, this includes supporting businesses and investors.

CySEC has launched its first online quiz on its website, where the public can evaluate how much they really know about investments...

Sustainability related provisions under MiFID and IDD DAs came into force on 2 August 2022. Here we explain how ESG data can be collected.

Findings of Compliance Officers’ Annual & Internal Audit Reports on the prevention of money laundering & terrorist financing assessments.

The European Council is strongly condemning the involvement of Belarus in the aggression against Ukraine

Further restrictive measures for the provision of SWIFT are taken against Russian credit institutions and their Russian subsidiaries.

CySEC has redefined the threshold criteria that determines a ‘significant CIF’ for the purposes of the Investment Services and Activities a

CySEC Chairman announced during a press conference on 1 Feb 2022 it is enhancing its supervisor capabilities through the implementation...

The Distance Marketing of Financial Services to Consumers Law of 2004 (N.242 (I) 2004) The Consumer Right of Withdrawal

Practical Guide for the submission of the Prudential forms under IFR/IFD.

Monthly Reporting Obligations - February 2022 for Cyprus Investment Firms.

Last week we enjoyed a few days away from the office at the largest B2B fintech exhibition organized by iFX EXPO International that was held

The requirement of publishing the RTS27 Reports is postponed for EU & UK Investment Firms, whilst RTS28 publication requirement remains...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Opinion on risks of money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) affecting the Europe

In this blog we would like to notify you about the new publication of the Financial Conduct Authority (the "FCA") as far as the UK's Tempora

On 29 December 2020 CySEC's latest Dear CEO Letter went to CIFs, which disclosed deficiencies found during reviews and onsite inspections.