Malta: Finance and Banking

Recent guidance issued in relation to the Annual Compliance Report and the Compliance Monitoring Plan provides an important signal to financial institutions. The Authority is no longer reviewing the CMP as a routine compliance document. It is reviewing it as evidence of whether the institution understands its own risk profile and whether it is actively testing the effectiveness of its controls.

Drafting the Annual Report for FinanceMalta is always a daunting task – but it is also a satisfying reminder of how much we have achieved in the previous year, in spite of the fact that there are only five of us in the team!

There were several important legislative changes which were published over the course of February 2026. Below is an overview of the key updates across different areas.