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The Italian financial services regulator, the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (Consob), has recently been in the news for suspending an initial coin offering (ICO) to the Italian public. The full text of the Consob resolution (no. 20660 dated 31 October 2018) is available in Italian here. Essentially, Consob held that the ICO satisfied the criteria for an offer of a financial investment (i.e. it involved the use of capital, an…
Consob, the Italian financial sector regulator, has launched a consultation on the abrogation of the obligation to publish a prospectus for unit-linked and index-linked insurance products. The proposed change is intended to end the peculiar Italian regime requiring insurers to draft a prospectus for unit-linked and index-linked insurance products, introduced in 2005 when the EU legal framework on pre-contractual information for insurance products was far from harmonized. The consultation follows the introduction throughout the EU…
The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance recently conducted a consultation on a draft decree, aimed at imposing registration requirements on virtual currency operators. These measures reflect a decree passed last year, in the context of implementation of Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, whereby Italian lawmakers anticipated some of the topics that were still under discussion at EU level, by extending the application of anti-money laundering obligations to the crypto-currency sector, at least in connection with…
Last week Consob, the Italian financial services regulator, took a further step in implementing MiFID II, by launching a public consultation in relation to the implementation of MiFID II regime for third-country firms. This consultation focuses on proposed amendments to second-level regulatory measures, in particular in respect of requirements and procedures for access to the Italian markets. In brief, third country firms shall be able to provide investment services on the Italian market under several…
The implementation of MiFID II in Italy is still ongoing. However, some significant steps have been taken during the summer, including the following: the Italian Parliament passed a Bill which updates and amends the Italian Financial Act to reflect the main provisions of MiFID II; Consob, the Italian financial market regulator, launched a consultation in relation to the second-level regulatory measures aimed at updating the Italian regulatory framework to reflect MiFID II’s level 2 measures.…
We are pleased to advise that the recording for our September 2017 MiFID II Academy webinar is now available. To access the recording, please click here…
On 1 September 2015, there was published a legislative decree which introduces sanctions for breaches of the Regulation that establishes the Single Euro Payments Area (the SEPA Regulation). The legislative decree designates the Bank of Italy as the authority in charge of applying such sanctions. Among other things the legislative decree introduces sanctions for unfair commercial practices. For example, the comments to the legislative decree note that a breach may apply in relation to article 9 of…
Following an earlier public consultation by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Italian Government has now approved, in a preliminary review, two legislative decrees that will transpose the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). The first legislative decree includes the provisions governing resolution plans, resolution procedures, (including bail-in and the management of cross-border banking groups in crisis) and powers of the resolution authority (i.e. the Bank of Italy). The second legislative decree amends the…