Legislation
Fact sheets on the rules that matter most for the financial sector: what they require, from whom, from when and on what official basis, together with everything supervisors publish about each of them.
Markets and trading
MAR · Market Abuse Regulation
MAR is the directly applicable Regulation that prohibits insider dealing, unlawful disclosure of inside information and market manipulation in the EU for instruments traded on regulated markets, MTFs and OTFs, and it has applied since 3 July 2016.
Digital, technology and crypto
AI Act · Artificial Intelligence Act
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 regulates AI by risk level and, in the financial sector, classifies as high-risk the creditworthiness assessment of natural persons and risk assessment and pricing in life and health insurance (Annex III, point 5(b) and (c)).
DORA · Digital Operational Resilience Act
DORA sets a uniform digital operational resilience framework for twenty categories of EU financial entities, applicable since 17 January 2025 (Art. 64).