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Fintech Insights #12 – MiCA & Prevention of Market Abuse FinTechInvestment Services & Funds

Fintech Insights #12 – MiCA & Prevention of Market Abuse

One of the aims of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (“MiCA”) is to bring stability to digital asset markets by ensuring that market abuse is prevented before it can even occur. In Malta, the MFSA enforces these standards through the powers given to it under Chapter 647 together with second-level measures, including European Commission Delegated Regulations and ESMA Regulatory Technical Standards. The rules on market abuse in MiCA closely correspond to those of the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (“MAR”). For crypto-asset service providers (“CASPs”) the task is clear: prevent abuse and protect market stability with firm governance, disciplined disclosure, and surveillance that…
Mario Mizzi
20th May 2026
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The FIAU issues sector specific Implementing Procedures applicable to the VFA sector. Legal Updates

The FIAU issues sector specific Implementing Procedures applicable to the VFA sector.

The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit has issued sector specific Implementing Procedures which apply to Virtual Financial Assets ("VFA") Agents, VFA Service Providers, anyone conducting VFA offerings to the public and anyone who has notified the Malta Financial Services Authority of their intention to submit a licence application in terms of the VFA Act. The Implementing Procedures set out the manner in which these subject persons within the VFA sector must comply with AML/CFT obligations arising from the Prevention of Money Laundering and Funding of Terrorism Regulations ("PMLFTR").These sector specific Implementing Procedures are the result of the extended application, by means…
MamoTCV Advocates
7th February 2020