The European Commission (Commission) has published a letter from Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union) to Verena Ross (Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority) concerning the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Pilot Regime. In the letter Commissioner McGuinness primarily aims to address the question
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Dutch Banking Association releases new sector standard for CDD applied by banks engaging with crypto service providers
Crypto service providers (cryptodienstverleners) currently registered with the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) will soon have increased clarity regarding the customer due diligence required for their banking transactions. This clarity is being provided through the new sector standard established by the Dutch Banking Association (Nederlandse Vereniging van…
EU pilot regime on DLT
On 24 November 2021, the European Parliament announced that it had reached agreement with the Council on a pilot scheme based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). The project follows the ‘sandbox’ approach, allowing for temporary derogations from certain requirements under the EU’s financial services legislation.
Among other things the Parliament’s announcement mentions that…
IFR/IFD changes reporting to DNB
On 6 October 2021, the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) published a news item on its website drawing attention to the fact that from 1 October 2021 regulatory reporting for investment firms, fund managers and investment holdings had changed in a number of important areas.
The changes were due to…
Proposed European Regulations on markets in crypto-assets and DLT market infrastructure
On 23 September 2020 the European Commission published its long-awaited draft regulation on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA), with its accompanying annex and a draft regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLTR). The proposals, which are part of the broader Digital Finance Strategy package, are the first European-level legislative…