6M has unveiled a Luxembourg service platform for adding limited crypto exposure to UCITS funds. The initiative relies on a narrow CSSF route rather than allowing funds to hold cryptocurrencies directly.
The EU has formally adopted its 21st sanctions package against Russia, widening financial, crypto, energy and trade restrictions. Luxembourg firms must now reassess clients, ownership structures and transactions.
Luxembourg’s CSSF will not continue its temporary approval role for Israel’s retail bond programme after 31 August. Ireland nevertheless remains central to any new sub-€1,000 prospectus.
Two Luxembourg-regulated payment companies have been selected for the ECB’s digital-euro pilot. Their role is to test distribution and acceptance, while EU lawmakers and the ECB retain decision-making authority.
ADA, a Luxembourg development-finance NGO, says its microfinance and inclusive-finance partners reached 430,511 economically vulnerable people in 2025 across 47 countries — work largely funded by Luxembourg's cooperation ministry and rooted in the Grand Duchy's outsized role as a hub for microfinance investment.
The European Parliament's economic affairs committee votes on the digital euro on 23 June 2026, advancing a project the EU casts as a way to cut its reliance on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal — with consequences Luxembourg's financial centre will feel directly.
UniCredit's all-share bid for Commerzbank has reached its decisive phase, claiming about 42% of the German bank as Berlin, its board and regulators resist — a test of the eurozone's stalled banking union that reaches Luxembourg's financial hub.
Alan Greenspan, who led the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 and became the defining central banker of the globalisation era, has died aged 100. His low-rate, deregulatory tenure built much of the modern financial system, but his reputation was shadowed by the 2008 crisis that followed his exit.