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Mamo TCV Advocates Contribute to AI and Debt Collection Dialogue at LIC 2026

Mamo TCV Advocates was represented at the first day of the LIC General Assembly 2026. A central theme of the day was Artificial Intelligence (AI), with speakers exploring both the opportunities and challenges that AI presents for debt collection practices and legal advisory work. During the session, Dr Kirk Brincau and Ian Busuttil shared practical perspectives drawn from the firm’s experience, highlighting how debt collection operations are managed within the Maltese legal and regulatory framework. With Malta hosting this year’s assembly, the contribution offered attendees valuable local context and real-world examples. The League International for Creditors (LIC) is an association…

Mamo TCV Advocates16th June 2026

Investment Services & Funds

AI & Funds #7 – Applicability of EU AI Act

This seventh instalment in the AI & Funds series revisits the six previous briefings issued when the law was still in draft and provides a comparative legal analysis of how the EU framework on artificial intelligence, ultimately promulgated as Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the "AI Act"), has settled in relation to investment funds. The AI Act has a staggered application schedule that culminates in August 2027. Article 50 of the AI Act on transparency is the section most likely to be relevant to investment funds in practice; and this becomes applicable in August 2026. The following six sections examine each prior…

Mario Mizzi25th May 2026

Data Protection and Privacy News

Mamo TCV attends IDPC FRIA Workshop

Senior Associate Dr Warren Ciantar and Associate Dr Nicole Bonett attended the Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment Workshop organized by the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner at the Trident Park Conference Hall held on 23rd October 2025. The workshop included an explanation of a methodology for carrying out a fundamental rights impact assessment (‘FRIA’) in terms of the AI Act by Professor Alessandro Mantelero, Associate Professor of Private Law and Law & Technology at the Polytechnic University of Turin. This was followed by a workshop where participants had the opportunity to apply the FRIA methodology to AI use-cases. For more information…

Mamo TCV Advocates24th October 2025

AI Act’s Impact on Businesses Operating Within the EU

Data Protection and Privacy FinTech Intellectual Property News Telecoms, Media & Technology

AI Laws of the World: Mamo TCV Contributes to the First Edition of DLA Piper’s Comparative Guide

DLA Piper’s recently published ‘AI Laws of the World’ guide provides a 2025 Q3 snapshot of AI laws and proposed regulations across more than 40 countries (including all 27 EU Member States), highlighting key legislative developments, regulations, proposed bills, and guidelines issued by governmental bodies. The guide also includes a contribution made by Mamo TCV Advocates which illustrates the legal position in Malta. The guide underscores significant geographical variation in regulatory approaches and attitudes, yet also reveals numerous common concerns, with lawmakers and AI-focused organisations worldwide adopting and exchanging a variety of strategies. Whilst some jurisdictions have established their own…

Mamo TCV Advocates26th August 2025

Data Protection and Privacy Telecoms, Media & Technology

Malta’s AI Act Authority Designations

The Malta Digital Innovation Authority (“MDIA”) and the Information Data Protection Commission (“IDPC”) have been identified as the Maltese Market Surveillance Authorities (“MSA”) under EU Regulation 2024/1689 (the “AI Act”), albeit the process of designation has yet to be formally concluded. It is expected that this will take place shortly in the coming days. The MSAs will be tasked with overseeing the responsible use of AI systems in Malta and with having the competence to carry out investigations and issue fines and penalties where necessary. They will have a diverse set of responsibilities that may be categorised as follows: Maintaining…

Mamo TCV Advocates4th August 2025

Antitrust, Competition and Trade

AI in a Consumer-Driven World: Ensuring Product Safety in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence (‘AI’) is revolutionising various industries and in today’s consumer-driven world, ensuring the safety of products is of paramount importance, more so when considering the innovative products being placed on the market. At the core of the AI Act are requirements that providers, manufacturers, importers, and distributors of AI systems must meet before making an AI system available for use or distribution on the Union market. These requirements cover AI systems that are, or that are safety components of, products such as toys, lifts, radio equipment, and medical devices which are classified as “high-risk” – that is AI systems…

Laura Spiteri25th November 2024