On 19 January 2026, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) released its supervisory agenda for 2026 (the AFM Agenda 2026), setting out the trends and risks it observes in the financial sector together with its supervisory priorities and key activities for the year ahead.
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On 15 December 2025, the Dutch Ministry of Finance has published the draft Act adjustment mutual fund for joint account (Wet aanpassing fonds voor gemene rekening, FGR Adjustment Act) for public consultation, which aims to revise the definition of the mutual fund for joint account (fonds voor gemene rekening, FGR
On 3 December 2025, the Dutch Ministry of Finance published the draft implementation decree on financial services contracts concluded at a distance (the Draft Decree) for consultation and amends the rules on the provision of information to consumers by financial service providers, investment firms, fund managers, crypto-asset service providers and crowdfunding service providers.
The
On 20 October 2025, the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) and the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) published a report about digital dependency in the financial sector. The key message is that the Dutch financial sector faces systemic risks as it has
On 20 October 2025, the draft Implementation Act regarding the review MiFID II and MiFIR (Implementatiewet herziening richtlijn markten voor financiële instrumenten 2014, the Draft Implementation Act) was published for public consultation.
The Draft Implementation Act transposes the amended Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) into the Act
On 9 October 2025, the Anti-Money Laundering Action Plan Act (Wet plan van aanpak witwassen, the Act) was published in the Dutch Government Gazette. The Act introduces a ban on cash payments of EUR 3,000 or more by traders of goods in the Netherlands.
This measure forms part of the Dutch government’s
On 30 September 2025, an amendment to the Regulation on supervisory costs of one-off actions (the Supervisory Costs Regulation) was published. The Regulation increases the rates charged by the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) for one-off supervisory actions. One-off supervisory actions are, for instance, screenings of (co-)policymakers and applications
On 30 September 2025, the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) issued a newsletter on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). In this newsletter, the AFM, among other things, provides an update on proprietary trading under MiCAR.
The AFM refers to the Q&As issued by the European
On 4 July 2025, the draft Implementation Act on the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing (Implementatiewet ter voorkoming van witwassen en terrorismefinanciering, Draft Implementation Act) was published for public consultation. The Draft Implementation Act transposes the Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/1640, AMLD6) into Dutch law. It
On 30 June 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) issued a sector letter addressed to alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) operating under the so-called ‘light’ regime. These light AIFMs are exempt from the licensing requirement under the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive