On 13 January 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that it had adopted a new Digital Strategy and updated its Data Strategy.
Data Strategy
The Data Strategy 2023–2028 has been updated to reflect the focus on burden reduction, the evolving technological landscape, and ESMA’s desire for unlocking efficiency opportunities. While
In the latest episode of our EMEA APAC regulatory insights series, Floortje Nagelkerke, Nikolai de Koning and Selma Joner from our Amsterdam office discuss the local remuneration landscape; the latest on Dutch implementation of the CRD VI and MiFID II review; and the growing regulatory focus on crypto-assets.
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Third-party payments involve invoices paid by entities or individuals that are not the original parties to the agreement. While there may be legitimate reasons for such arrangements, third-party payments are also sometimes used to obscure the origin of funds or to conceal the involvement of certain parties. As such, they present a potential method for
On 17 April 2025, the Dutch Minister of Finance published a letter addressed to the Dutch Parliament, together with a recent evaluation of the Remuneration Policy (Financial Institutions) Act (Wet beloningsbeleid financiële ondernemingen, the Remuneration Act). The Remuneration Act, incorporated in the Act on the Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel
On 28 February 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) reminded companies offering group insurance policies of the upcoming licence requirement, effective 1 October 2025. This requirement follows a 29 September 2022 ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU, clarifying licensing obligations for group
On 18 February 2025, the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) posted an update on the Instant Payments Regulation (IPR). The IPR entered into force on 8 April 2024 and payment service providers (PSPs) needed to comply with a first set of obligations from 9 January 2025, with more