The Financial Market Integrity Strengthening Act includes a large number of innovations aimed at strengthening confidence in the German financial market by placing more comprehensive obligations on auditors when auditing...more
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has issued a notice letter reflecting its pragmatic approach to regulating initial coin offerings. In the absence of specific European and German laws, BaFin’s...more
Guidelines indicate that violations of the German Securities Trading Act will be sanctioned more rigorously by the German federal financial supervisory authority in the future.
Since July 2016, the German federal...more
New European transparency requirements have been transformed into German law.
On 27 November, Germany will implement the Amendment Directive to the Transparency Directive (2013/50/EU, the Amendment Directive). The...more
By changing its administrative practice, the BaFin allows loan origination and loan restructuring by investment funds in Germany.
On 12 May, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) published changes to...more