[Newsflash n. 73]
Following the consultation launched on June 3 2020, on 18 December 2020 ESMA published the final report on its guidelines on outsourcing to cloud service providers (CSPs). The guidelines are intended to help companies identify, address, and monitor risks arising from cloud outsourcing arrangements and provide guidance to companies on a number […]
[Newsletter n. 17]
Italy has been the first EU Member State to equipe itself with a regulation for equity crowdfunding in 2013 (Consob Regulation no. 18592 of 26 June 2013) (“Crowdfunding Regulation”) and now a further step to foster this successful financing tool has been added to the existing infrastructure.
On 25 October 2019, the Crowdfunding […]
[Newsflash n. 56]
On 7 January 2019, Consob launched a public consultation to endorse and make permanent the ban on retail offers of binary options (“BO”) and contracts for difference (“CFDs”) to retail investors as adopted by ESMA pursuant to article 40 of MIFIR Regulation on 22 May 2018 and then extended […]
[Newsflash n. 55]
On 29 November 2018, CONSOB published the Resolution n. 20686/2018 dated 9 November 2018 in the Italian Official Gazette, which amended Article 34-ter of CONSOB Issuers’ Regulation setting out the exemptions from the obligation to publish a prospectus, with particular regard to the threshold under which public offerings are exempted. In particular, CONSOB […]
[Newsflash n. 54]
In the last two weeks Consob suspended two Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) promoted by non-Italian companies addressed to Italian investors: (i) the offer of token TGA by an English company “Togacoin LTD” (Resolution n. 20660 of 31 October 2018) and (ii) the offer of digital currency Crypton promoted […]
Con il Decreto Legge n. 59 del 3 maggio 2016, il Governo è intervenuto introducendo una innovativa figura di pegno mobiliare non possessorio:
La pubblicità sarà affidata ad un registro informatizzato da costituirsi entro novanta giorni dalla entrata […]