The Notified AIF – Malta’s Fast Track Fund
The Notified AIF is a new fund regime offered by Malta which allows fund promoters to set up a fund within 10 working days from application to the regulator. The application is a notification submitted to the MFSA and which is spearheaded by the investment manager of the Notified AIF. The latter must be a full-compliant AIFMD …
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Employment and Industiral Relations Law
GVZH Advocates provides an array of employment-related solutions including contracts of service, dismissals, redundancies, transfers of employees between undertakings, equal treatment on the workplace and the implementation of appropriate systems and procedures for clients’ human resources.
The amended EuVECA and EuSEF Regulations
Regulation (EU) 2017/1991 amending regulations (EU) No 345/2013 on European Venture Capital Funds (EuVECAs) and (EU) No 346/2013 on European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (EuSEFs) (together, the “Regulations”) has been published today in the Official Journal of the European Union and will be applicable as of 1 March 2018.
MiFID II: are you ready?
With less than 30 days to go before the new MiFID II regime will be rolled out, funds and management companies/AIFM are increasingly concerned as to how they will be impacted: product governance inducements and payment for research increased client information requirements complex and non-complex products classification
Registers of beneficial ownership: new rules to be implemented soon
The draft laws implementing AMLD 4 set out strict rules to allow for protection against improper access to the information on BOs.
Permanent exemption from variation margin obligation for FX forwards?
Earlier this week, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published draft amendments to EMIR-related regulatory technical standards (RTS) that align the treatment of variation margin (VM) for FX forwards with the supervisory guidance applicable in other key jurisdictions. More specifically the draft amendments propose that the requirement to exchange VM for physically settled FX forwards shall …
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The Maintenance of Roofs, Floors & Ceilings under Maltese Law
The continuous urbanization and gentrification of the Maltese landscape has augmented the importance of maintaining well-regulated neighbourly relations among residents living in densely populated areas of the Island.
MFSA – Discussion Paper on Initial Coin Offerings, Virtual Currencies and Related Service Providers
The Malta Financial Services Authority launches a Discussion Paper on Initial Coin Offerings, Virtual Currencies and Related Service Providers.
Protection of Employment for those on a minimum wage.
In April of last year, mandatory supplements were introduced for those earning the minimum wage, (and for those who earn slightly more than the minimum wage but less than the new minimum wage with the €3 supplement), by means of amendments to the National Minimum Wage National Standard Order (S.L. 452.71).
The Amendments Of The Decennial Posthumous Insurance In The New Code Of Public Contracts
The Article n. 103 of the new Code of Public Contracts – Legislative Decree n. 50/2016, most recently amended by the Legislative Decree n. 56/2017 – provides assurances for the execution of the public contract – the so called final assurance -, issued by the contractor. In particular, paragraph 8 regulates the decennial posthumous insurance, …