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Luxembourg: Financial Sector Assessment Program—Technical Note on Investment Funds: Regulation and Supervision

June 24, 2024

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International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department "Luxembourg: Financial Sector Assessment Program—Technical Note on Investment Funds: Regulation and Supervision", IMF Staff Country Reports 2024, 181 (2024), accessed November 23, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400280344.002

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This paper highlights a technical note on Investment Funds: Regulation and Supervision for the Luxembourg Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has a robust supervisory framework with substantive improvements since the last FSAP, but some areas could be further strengthened. Given the structural importance of delegation for Luxembourg domiciled funds, initiating an on-site inspection framework for delegates outside Luxembourg assumes importance. CSSF’s enforcement framework could be substantially improved through enhancements on four key fronts. CSSF could improve the domestic regulatory framework on areas such as winding up, valuation, and approach to indirectly regulated Alternative Investment Funds AIFs. Given Luxembourg’s position as the domicile of EU’s largest IF sector, CSSF should actively continue to promote and contribute to EU level reforms on various topics. With respect to liquidity risks, CSSF should continue to actively contribute to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) guidance on the use of Liquidity Management Tools and to engage closely with ESMA and the EU Commission on the proposed revision of the Eligible Assets Directive.

Subject: Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Liquidity risk, Mutual funds, Systemic risk

Keywords: Banque Centrale du Luxembourg, EU requirement, Europe, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Financial sector stability, Global, Investment fund manager, Investment fund Sector, Liquidity risk, Managers directive, Mutual funds, Systemic risk

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