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 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 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
On 2 April 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) announced the launch of an exploratory investigation into financial services provided under the so-called ‘national regime’ exemption. This regime allows financial service providers and investment firms in the Netherlands to provide (i) investment advice and (ii)
On 12 November 2024, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiele Markten, AFM) published its Consumer Monitor Investors report (Consumentenmonitor Beleggers). The key message in the report is that not all asset managers and investment advisors comply with the obligation to ask investors about their sustainability preferences. Only 25%
On 30 October 2024, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiele Markten, AFM) released findings from its exploratory study on the rising number of fund managers operating under the so-called Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) light regime. The AIFM-light regime applies to smaller fund managers with assets under €100 million
On 10 October 2023, the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) published a news item on its website clarifying the calculation of the so-called K-COH and K-DTF under the Investment Firms Regulation (IFR). The news item is published in response to the European Banking Authority’s Q&A regarding the calculation
On 1 August 2023, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) published an exploratory study into the sustainability risk management of Dutch alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs).
The study was conducted due to changes made to the UCITS Directive (Directive 2009/65/EC) and the AIFMD Delegated Regulation
On 22 May 2023, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) published a news item on periodic questionnaires on remuneration for investment firms. From June 2023 onwards, investment firms supervised by the AFM will periodically receive one or more questionnaires on various aspects of remuneration. This is
In March 2023, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) published its latest issue of Market Watch, a periodical newsletter on current topics and developments in the capital markets. This issue of Market Watch focuses on algorithmic trading, a topic that the AFM has been particularly focussed