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 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.
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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 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 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
On 12 June 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) issued its latest newsletter outlining developments related to the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (Regulation 2023/1114, MiCAR). A key focus of this update is the AFM’s supervisory strategy following the end of the transitional period.
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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 2 May 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) published an annex (the Annex) to its guidelines on the Act on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Wet ter voorkoming van witwassen en financiering van terrorisme, the Wwft), the
On 24 April 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) published a news update concerning the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882, the EAA), which will become applicable in the Netherlands as of 28 June 2025. In this news item, the AFM urges financial institutions