The Malta Financial Services Authority (“MFSA”) has published a Dear CEO letter addressed to all chief executive officers and compliance officers of ‘persons professionally arranging or executing transactions’, particularly to investment services providers. The letters sets out the MFSA’s main findings following numerous market abuse-related supervisory inspections which it carried out with numerous Maltese investment services providers – primarily member firms of the Malta Stock Exchange – between 2020 and 2024. The letter makes for some interesting reading as it gives the MFSA’s perspective on the industry’s compliance with MAR generally.
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