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Malta Aligns Investment Laws With EU Prudential Regime Investment Services & Funds

Malta Aligns Investment Laws With EU Prudential Regime

The Maltese legislator’s recent publication of five amending legal notices on 29 July 2025 marks a continuous alignment of the Investment Services Act (Chapter 370 of the Laws of Malta) with the European Union’s prudential regime for investment firms. Each of the five legal notices (L.N.) addresses a discrete lacuna that had emerged once the Investment Firms Regulation (IFR) and Investment Firms Directive (IFD) began to apply across the Union earlier this decade. Legal Notice 152 of 2025 amends Malta’s rules on supervisory consolidation under the IFD, refining the criteria by which the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is designated as consolidating…
Mario Mizzi
30th July 2025
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Mamo TCV Contributes to Chambers Aviation: Finance & Leasing 2025 Aviation

Mamo TCV Contributes to Chambers Aviation: Finance & Leasing 2025

Mamo TCV Advocates is pleased to announce that its Aviation team has contributed to the 2025 edition of the Chambers Aviation: Finance & Leasing Global Practice Guide. Partner Nicholas Valenzia and Senior Associate Joshua Chircop contributed to the Guide.With Paul P. Jebely from The Hague CAA acting as Contributing Editor, the guide provides the latest legal information on aircraft and engine purchase and sale, aircraft and engine leasing, aircraft debt finance, security, liens, enforcement and current legislative proposals. The Malta Guide may be accessed here: https://practiceguides.chambers.com/practice-guides/aviation-finance-leasing-2025/malta/trends-and-developments. Mamo TCV & Aviation Mamo TCV Advocates is one of the foremost law firms in Malta in the…
Mamo TCV Advocates
29th July 2025
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ESMA Supports MFSA’s MiCA Approach FinTech

ESMA Supports MFSA’s MiCA Approach

On the 10th of July 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published the results of its first peer review of a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorisation under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The review, focused on Malta, marks an important milestone in the EU’s transition to a harmonised regulatory framework for crypto-assets. The review can be accessed on this link. Malta, which had already established a structured national framework through its Virtual Financial Assets (VFA) regime in 2018, was among the first jurisdictions to operationalise MiCA. The peer review confirms that the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA)…
Mamo TCV Advocates
10th July 2025
Tokenisation of Funds
Fintech Insights #11 –
Tokenising Fund Units FinTechInvestment Services & Funds

Fintech Insights #11 –
Tokenising Fund Units

Malta has uniquely positioned itself at the crossroads of EU legislative initiatives of investment funds and digital assets. The island has steadily built a forward-thinking fintech ecosystem whilst at the same time maintained an investment fund framework which is comparable to those with the EU’s largest jurisdictions by assets-under-management (“AUM”).  This makes Malta the ideal EU jurisdiction to set up a tokenised investment fund. In June 2025, the Malta Financial Services Authority (“MFSA”) published a detailed ‘Position Paper on Tokenisation of Fund Units’ (the “Position Paper”), reflecting Malta’s ongoing pioneering approach to digital finance and asset management. The paper emphasises…
Katya Tua and Mario Mizzi
18th June 2025
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MFSA Amends MiCA Rulebook FinTech

MFSA Amends MiCA Rulebook

On the 16th of June 2025, the Malta Financial Services Authority (“MFSA”) published a circular containing an updated version of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Rulebook, together with targeted amendments to Chapter 3 of the Financial Institutions Rulebook (FIR/03). These updates implement the recently issued Level 2 and Level 3 EU measures under the MiCA framework and clarify the notification procedures for crypto-asset market participants. The updated provisions are effective immediately as of its publication. The updates to the MiCA rulebook were carried out to ensure alignment with recently published guidelines by the European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”), and are as…
Mamo TCV Advocates
17th June 2025
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Fintech Insights #10 –
Raising Funds Through Tokenisation FinTech

Fintech Insights #10 –
Raising Funds Through Tokenisation

The EU’s process towards further harmonisation of its Capital Markets Union (“CMU”) provides a timely context for the implementation of tokenisation. The CMU aims to create a single, integrated financial market across the EU, fostering cross-border investments, mobilising citizens’ personal savings and reducing the reliance on bank-driven financing. The implementation of tokenisation within capital markets can help achieve these objectives by enabling frictionless trading and unlocking access to new pools of capital whilst increasing liquidity. As discussed in the previous insight on tokenisation in Malta, tokenisation reimagines asset representation by embedding ownership and legal rights into programmable tokens recorded on…
Mario Mizzi
17th April 2025