Key developments of interest over the last month include: a new Bill containing detailed new information and account direct deduction obligations for banks and EMIs being introduced to the UK Parliament; the issuing of a...more
Bank of Italy issued a public consultation proposing to extend the Regulation on customer due diligence and the Regulation on organization, procedures and internal controls to crypto-asset service providers (“CASPs”)....more
The Italian Legislative Decree implementing MiCAR has been published in the Official Gazette. Among other things, it designates CONSOB and the Bank of Italy as competent supervisory authorities and sets out a transitional...more
On 22 July 2024, the Bank of Italy issued a communication on MiCAR illustrating its supervisory powers and outlining certain MiCAR aspects and the impact on market players. Bank of Italy announced it is open for dialogue with...more
The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) opened two public consultations to receive feedback on the draft decrees adapting Italian rules to Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCAR) and Regulation...more
The Bank of Italy and Consob, as competent authorities for Regulation (EU) 2022/858 on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on DLT, declared compliance with the ESMA Guidelines on standard forms, formats and...more
Law Decree implementing EU Regulation 2022/858, containing urgent provisions on issuance and circulation of financial instruments in digital form, was published in the Official Gazette on 17 March 2023. It provides for the...more
With the sentence No. 44378 of 22 November 2022, the Supreme Court ruled for the equivalence between cryptocurrencies and financial products....more
At our recent global conference we held in partnership with Global Digital Finance, our keynote speaker suggested that the three major drivers for financial institution regulators and policy makers for the next few years...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: • United Kingdom: The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published two calls for views, one of which focuses on authorised push payment (APP) scams and the other on...more