Source/Date Brief description

BaFin4

July 2019

Publication of the Monthly Journal from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)

Topics (selection): Bank liquidation / BaFin event on technical cooperation / Outsourcing of banks / Cooperation with Japan / Stronger supervision of subordinated loans.

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BaFin4

18/07/2019

BaFin published its Interpretation and Application Guidance (Auslegungsentscheidung Auslegungsentscheidung zur Finanzrückversicherung im Bezug auf traditionelle Rückversicherungen im Bereich Nichtleben) on differentiation between financial reinsurance and traditional non-life reinsurance

The Interpretation and Application Guidelines shall apply to all insurance undertakings having their head office in Germany and to branches of insurance undertakings of a third country engaged in non-life insurance business.

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German Federal Gazette

15/07/2019

An act on the further implementation of the EU Prospectus Ordinance and on amendments to Financial Market Acts published in the German Federal Gazette

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BaFin4

15/07/2019

BaFin submitted the draft of an Ordinance amending the Regulation on Financial Information and Information on the Risk-Bearing Capacity (Zweite Verordnung zur Änderung der Finanz- und Risikotragfähigkeitsinformationenverordnung (FinaRisikoV))

For further information in German, click here.

BaFin4

04/07/2019

BaFin consults module on regulations based on the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR)

BaFin has revised further parts of the Issuer Guideline (Emittentenleitfaden) and made them available for consultation.

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BaFin4

03/07/2019

BaFin published a draft on a Circular on Liquidity risk (Entwurf für ein Rundschreiben bezüglich zusätzlicher Liquiditätsabflüsse in Zusammenhang mit anderen Produkten und Dienstleistungen gemäß Artikel 23 Delegierter Verordnung (EU) 2015/61)

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BaFin4

01/07/2019

BaFin adopts European Banking Authority (EBA) guidelines to concretize STS criteria in its Circular (Rundschreiben 04/2019 (BA) zur Konkretisierung der Kriterien für einfache, transparente und standardisierte Verbriefungen (STS))

With this circular, BaFin will incorporate the relevant standards of the EBA into its administrative practice as of 1 July 2019.

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BaFin4

01/07/2019

BaFin continues ban on binary options (Allgemeinverfügung gemäß Artikel 42 MiFIR bezüglich binärer Optionen) for retail investors in Germany

The marketing, distribution and sale of binary options to private customers will continue to be prohibited in Germany. BaFin has issued a general decree stipulating this. The German supervisory authority is thus reacting to the expiry of the product intervention measure of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

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BaFin4

28/06/2019

BaFin has issued a general ruling on the quota for the domestic countercyclical capital buffer (Allgemeinverfügung zur Quote des inländischen antizyklischen Kapitalpuffers nach § 10d KWG)

For further information in German, click here.

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