Addressed To: Cyprus Investment Fund Managers (including Cyprus UCITS Management Companies and Self-Managed Cyprus UCITS, Cyprus Alternative Investment Fund Managers and Self-Managed Cyprus AIFs, and Sub-Threshold Cyprus Alternative Investment Fund Managers and Self-Managed Cyprus AIFs), as well as Cyprus Investment Firms (CIFs). CySEC issued Circular C752 on 21 January 2026 to inform the Regulated Entities...Read More

Addressed To: Cyprus Investment Firms (CIFs), Central Securities Depositories, Trading Venues, Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs), Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs), and UCITS Management Companies. CySEC issued Circular C751on 19 January 2026, which provides further supervisory guidance on obligations arising under Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 on Digital Operational Resilience (DORA). Below is a summary of the key...Read More

Addressed To: Cyprus Investment Firms (CIFs), Administrative Service Providers (ASPs), UCITS Management Companies, Internally Managed UCITS, Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs), Internally Managed AIFs, Internally Managed AIFLNPs, Companies established solely for the management of AIFLNPs, Crypto Asset Service Providers, Small AIFMs under Law 81(I)/2020, and Crowdfunding Service Providers. CySEC issued Circular C750 on 13 January...Read More

Addressed To: Cyprus Investment Firms (CIFs), UCITS and UCITS Management Companies, Variable Capital Investment Companies, Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs), Small and Sub-Threshold AIFMs, Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), Registered Alternative Investment Funds (RAIFs), Alternative Investment Funds with a Limited Number of Persons (AIFLNPs), and Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs). CySEC issued Circular C749 on 08/01/2026 to...Read More

Addressed To: Cyprus Investment Firms (‘CIFs’), Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (‘UCITS’), UCITS Management Companies, Variable Capital Investment Companies, Alternative Investment Fund Managers (‘AIFMs’), Small AIFMs, Sub-threshold AIFMs, Alternative Investment Funds (‘AIFs’), Registered Alternative Investment Funds (‘RAIFs’), Alternative Investment Funds with limited number of persons (‘AIFLNP’) and the Crypto-Asset Services Providers (‘CASPs’). CySEC...Read More

It is hard to get back into a market just after a mauling — as cryptocurrencies suffered last week, led by bitcoin’s 15 per cent tumble. It can be harder still to jump into the products — perpetual futures — that are believed to have produced the crash. So-called perps, though, are about to go...Read More

Central banks around the world are lowering borrowing costs as global inflation eases from the multi-decade highs reached in many countries in recent years. The FT global inflation and interest rates tracker provides a regularly updated visual narrative of consumer price inflation and central bank policy rates around the world. This page covers the factors...Read More

The UK financial watchdog has filed a lawsuit against the crypto exchange linked to Justin Sun, a Chinese-born billionaire who has invested millions of dollars in US President Donald Trump’s digital asset ventures. The Financial Conduct Authority said that it had filed the lawsuit against HTX in the High Court this week “for unlawfully promoting...Read More

For those concerned about the threats to the world from climate change, some of the signals this year from institutional investors and investment banks are alarming. However, there are still reasons to be hopeful about the resilience of efforts to tackle environmental issues at the corporate level. It is true that there has been a...Read More

Brussels wants to put more of Europeans’ €10tn in savings to use by urging member states to offer tax incentives for investment accounts — part of a push to deepen the EU’s shallow and fragmented capital markets. Historically, Europeans have saved a higher proportion of their income compared with Americans. But owing to a mix...Read More