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The Financial Location Promotion Act (StoFöG) introduces numerous adjustments to the regulatory and tax framework for financial market participants. In particular, investment firms, securities institutions, exchange operators and credit institutions will need to adapt their compliance structures to new conduct rules for research, expanded supervisory powers of BaFin, and a revised definition of systematic internalisation . Investment funds, capital management companies and

BaFin has updated its information page on the notification requirements under the EU Short Selling Regulation (Regulation (EU) No. 236/2012). The update relates to the planned integration of the European Single Access Point (ESAP) into the publication of net short positions. From 10 July 2026 , net short positions subject to publication will be published centrally via ESAP. In this context, entities subject to the notification requirement must submit their Legal Entity Ident

BaFin has issued a general administrative order establishing new position limits for the German Power Future (Base) and German Power Option (Base) contracts traded on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) . The position limit is set at 21,000,000 MWh for the spot month and 52,000,000 MWh for all other months . The decision is based on the provisions of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) and the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1302 on position limits for commodity deriv

Der  BVI  hat eine Stellungnahme  zum Diskussionspapier  der  ESMA  über die integrierte Erhebung von Fondsdaten  veröffentlicht. Der Verband unterstützt grundsätzlich die  ESMA -Vorschläge zur Entwicklung eines einheitlichen Meldemechanismus, der langfristig alle bestehenden Meldepflichten von Fondsverwaltungsgesellschaften auf europäischer und nationaler Ebene ersetzen soll. Ziel der ESMA  ist es, ein System zu schaffen, das die Vorgaben der  AIFMD , der  OGAW -Richtlinie,