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What are the most common causes of actions taken by or against financial institutions and service providers in Dutch jurisdiction?

Op 25 april 2018 had de Raad van State een kritisch advi het wetsvoorstel voor wijziging Wft. Op 5 juli 2018 volgden publicatie van dit advies, reactie van initiatiefnemers en aangepast wetsvoorstel voor de Tweede Kamer.

The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy was wrong to unblock the ACM’s prohibited merger between postal operators PostNL and Sandd on grounds of public interest.

In this blog, we briefly present the evolution of the future new European legal framework for the digital financial sector.

On 22 February 2024, the European Commission adopted two Delegated Regulations under the Regulation on digital operational resilience for the financial sector and four Delegated Regulations under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation.

Financial institutions and third party ICT providers will have to strengthen their IT security organisations, as the European Digital Operational Resilience Act is expected to be fully applicable in early 2025 after a two-year implementation period.

On 24 May 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a report on virtual IBAN (vIBANs) in which the EBA set outs characteristics and use cases of vIBANs and comments on identified risks associated with this development in the payments market.

In Luxembourg, companies and other legal entities have been required to register their UBO(s) since 31 August 2019. In Belgium, the UBO register is also already operational. The Dutch legislator did not meet the implementation deadline.

The developments with respect to COVID-19 raise a number of challenges for issuers of securities listed on a regulated market relating to – among other things – disclosure of information and periodic financial reporting.

Soeradj Ramsanjhal schreef samen Jeevan Sathie een artikel over de insidermelding bij beursvennootschappen. Deze meldplicht is niet altijd snel te doorgronden, met name als transacties betrekking hebben op afgeleide of verbonden financiële instrumenten.

Stibbe advises Centtrip, one the UK's premier and most innovative fintech companies, on expanding into the European mainland by setting up a regulated electronic money institution in the Netherlands and its licence application with the Dutch Central Bank.

Stibbe launches a new blog series focusing on the legal challenges of the Metaverse. In our upcoming blog posts, we will discuss the legal challenges of NFTs, crypto-assets, Metaverse platforms, crypto exchanges, DAO, and many more.

Vennootschappen en andere juridische entiteiten hadden tot 27 maart 2022 voor de registratie van hun UBO’s (ultimate beneficial owners) bij het Nederlandse UBO-register. Het voldoen aan de UBO-registratie blijft actueel.

Effective from Q1 2023, the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (the “AFM”) indicated that it will require AIFMs who have notified AIFs for marketing under Article 36/Article 42 AIFMD to submit Periodic Reports.

The Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) has shared new key considerations on the use of artificial intelligence in the insurance sector.

Stibbe lawyers Marieke Driessen, Loes van Dijk and Ingrid van der Klooster contributed to the book 'Sustainable Finance in Europe' which was recently published.

A recent report of the AFM underlines its focus on monitoring SFDR compliance, signals tightening enforcement action against those lagging behind, and highlights a new phase of supervisory attention for clear, accurate and reliable SFDR disclosures.

Nora Offergelt and Pieter Schütte have written a Practice Note with Practical Law Capital Markets in which they discuss the top tips for doing capital markets deals in the Netherlands.