Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) delivered a sound financial performance during the first half of 2023, with a net profit of 103 million euros. Rising interest rates and lingering inflation have been the markers of the half-year. BIL remains fully focused on proactively helping clients navigate the current environment.
Screening of foreign direct investments: Luxembourg’s balancing act with FDI Regulation
The Banque centrale du Luxembourg’s consumer confidence indicator has continued to rise in June.
Building a unique, European-grown instant payment solution – The European Payments Initiative (EPI) welcomes four additional shareholders and announces two acquisitions.
Luxembourg, 20 March 2023 – The buyout of failing Credit Suisse by competitor UBS is unconvincing and will not soothe markets for the time being. This is what Moventum’s Managing Director and Head of Asset Management Carsten Gerlinger anticipates. “In effect, a façade is being puttied with a lot of political central bank money, but it is the engine room at Credit Suisse that is burning”, says Gerlinger. “Hence, a new Swiss problem bank could emerge from combining a strong bank and a weak one.”
The recent Credit Suisse proposed acquisition by UBS and the saga of the collapse of several banks in the US (SVB and Signature Bank), may be a trigger that it is time to rethink banking regulation.
Belair House, a subsidiary of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL), is a real-estate-focused family office, providing services to clients who would like to invest in this sector. In order to further increase the value proposal for its clients, BIL has taken an important step forward in hiring Laurent Cooreman as a CEO for Belair House.
New CSSF FAQ on CBDF – Guidance on Marketing Communications On 20 September 2022, the CSSF published a new CSSF FAQ on CBDF Marketing Communications (“CSSF FAQ”), the objective of which is to provide additional guidance to Luxembourg investment fund managers (“IFMs”) on certain key aspects of the marketing communication (“MC”) requirements under Article 4
Sustainable Finance update (asset management): CSSF communication on SFDR RTS confirmation letter Further to our newsflash of 29 July 2022 in connection with the CSSF’s communication of 27 July 2022 in relation to SFDR and the upcoming entry into force of the SFDR RTS on 1 January 2023, the CSSF issued a further communication on
CSSF Circular 22/811 on UCI Administrators On 16 May 2022, the CSSF issued Circular 22/811 concerning the authorisation and organisation of entities acting as UCI administrators (“Circular”), which rewrites and repeals Chapter D of IML Circular 91/75 setting out the rules concerning the central administration of Luxembourg undertakings for collective investment (“UCIs”). As announced
CSSF Telework Circular applicable as of 1 July 2022: are you ready? On 31 March 2022, the CSSF confirmed that Circular 21/769 on “Governance and security requirements for supervised entities to perform tasks or activities through Telework” (“Telework Circular”) will apply as from 1 July 2022 in view of the government’s recent announcements removing the
UKRAINE CRISIS – CSSF FAQ on the application of LMTs by UCITS On 31 March 2022, the CSSF provided guidance with respect to the challenges faced by investment funds holding Russian and Belarussian assets that have become illiquid as a consequence of the Ukraine crisis as well as due to the restrictive measures taken by
